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● projectScaled · national · 2015
HackYourFuture
Free coding school for refugees and displaced people, founded in Amsterdam in 2015 by Gijs Corstens.
illustrative atlas image · Prateek Katyal / Unsplash01 The context
Part-time program of about 9 months of web development (one day in person, the rest online self-study) taught by volunteer mentors from the industry, with job coaching. More than 500 graduates in the Netherlands, 425+ alumni working in Dutch tech and 1.000+ alumni worldwide; the model was replicated in Denmark and Belgium. The Danish branch is documented by the European Commission's DG for Migration; a cited evaluation (LG Insight 2021) reports a 71% graduation rate.
02 How it works
method · Project-based learning with code reviewmethod · Part-time bootcamp with volunteer mentors from the tech industrymethod · Job coaching and direct linkage with employer companiestool · Open source web development curriculum (JavaScript) on GitHubtool · GitHub as a work and assessment environment
03 What it stands on
Evidence level
Own experience
Grounded in published theory
Documented evidence elsewhere
Independently evaluated here
2 published documents support this project. No independent evaluation is in the atlas yet. Know of any? Contribute it.
The evidence 2 ›
EvidenceHackYourFuture (Digital Social Innovation case study)DSI4EU / digitalsocial.eu · 2019
EvidenceDenmark: Hack Your Future (integration practice case)European Commission, DG Migration and Home Affairs · 2021