ISSUE #5SE
EU Code Week Ireland
2021 in Review
ISSN : 2811- 6224

EU Code Week is a grass-roots movement that celebrates creativity, problem solving and collaboration through programming and other tech activities. The idea is to make programming more visible, to show young, adults and elderly how you bring ideas to life with code, to demystify these skills and bring motivated people together to learn.

In 2021, 4 million people in more than 80 countries around the world took part in EU Code Week.  In Ireland there were over 148 activities involving thousands of participants across the country.

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The average participant was 11 years old and 49% of participants in 2021 were women or girls. 88% of EU Code Week events took place in schools, which show that efforts to empower teachers during the 2021 campaign were a success.

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This is a Review of the Irish involvement in EU CodeWeek during 2021 and is published as a Special Edition to mark the start of the 2022 CodeWeek.