Femme Forward is a forward-looking project targeting the low representation of women in digital jobs and start-ups. Through an innovative and comprehensive training programme, women with various backgrounds will be empowered to either start a career in tech or employ their experience and knowledge to set up a tech start-up. The Femme Forward consortium is a partnership of 15 stakeholders led by Simplon.co (SIMPLON.CO), bringing together key industry, technology and education stakeholders in Europe. Each participant in the project has a well-defined role and contributes to achieving a qualitative and comprehensive partnership. The consortium will work to identify, develop and pilot high-quality digital education content that will tackle the current gender gap in the digital economy, enabling at least 500 women to start on the track to tech employment or entrepreneurship. The project will be delivered across 8 interconnected work packages, during which 23 outputs will be delivered over 24 months.Femme Forward will support women with various backgrounds with a special focus on: migrants and refugees whose qualifications are not recognized in the EU; professionals and women who want to change careers for better job prospects; young graduates from non-tech degrees who want to move into tech positions; women who have a tech business idea and want to make it a reality; women re-entering the labor market after maternity, etc.At the end of the project, we will have created an easy to use and extensive repository of tested, high-quality educational materials, available in multiple languages, and on a multi-device compatible learning platform.

The EUnited We Code project aims to answer to an european dual issue : a very high unemployment rate (7,3%) coupled to a digital divide which grows wider (due to a lack of training to basic digital competences, especially for disadvantaged groups and an increasing need for professionals in the ICT sector) and the challenge of professionalizing trainers delivering training in digital skills through an active pedagogy approach Since its beginnings, Simplon.co had spread his model of free technical trainings to digital jobs for disadvantaged groups (such as job-seekers, women, migrants, disabled persons) at the European level. Therefore, the schools factories, ETIC in Romania, Factoria F5 in Spain and BeCode in Belgium have been created. Through the EUnited We Code project, Simplon.co, the leader, and its European partners wish to build together a strong and tested pedagogical basis in order to help the trainers coach job seekers to develop new digital skills and support them in their transition to work. This pedagogical basis could be replicate in all of countries of the European Union. For this purpose, we organized 3 transnational meetings (in Barcelona, Cluj, Paris) and a training workshop (in Brussels) to allow our factories’ trainers and mentors to develop their professional capacities, learn from each other and build together shareable pedagogical supports to their Europeans peers. We built together :- A toolkit for facilitating the recruitment and onboarding of active pedagogy trainers : this toolkit is composed of a few examples of trainers positions, a guide to share good recruiting practices, an evaluation grid to analyse applications, and 4 videos of trainers explaining their motivation to animate a training course in digital skills for underpriviledged communities,,- The foundations for a VIDA platform to share challenges between trainers implementing an active pedagogy in their class to transfer their know-how to job seekers, neets, kids- A canneva for a mobility program between trainers at the local, national and transnational level, in order to formalize the sharing of good practices, organize the transfer of pedagogical experience from one training team to another, and improve the quality of the training for trainees.All these pedagogical supports are available in the different idioms of the partnership (english, spanish and romanian) and be broadcast on each digital platforms’ partners and the EPALE platform. Our partnership, based on Simplon.co methodology already provides another possible integrated and efficient orientation for job seekers and disadvantaged groups : with the EUnited We Code projects, it wishes to level up this solution and bring to all the European Countries a new approach, leading to more social inclusion and an access to training and qualifications for all with the continuous VET. Fill the mass unemployment problem while guaranteeing an access to digital job : this is our final objective.