Lego in Education

In this chapter, EU Code Week meets the European Space Agency, ESA on Education. Listen to discover what made the ESA Educators join this task, how ESA sees that SPACE can transform Education in Europe, by educating students from primary school to PHD level with challenging coding tasks and ways to make your projects (literally) be launched into SPACE. ESA shares how digital skills can be applied to something that seems as unreachable as space and by participating in one challenge be engaged to the topic of space forever, even for people that studied Humanities. The way ESA educates aims to enriching technologically our society, for students interested in STEM and beyond. ESA Education is about raising good citizens, preparing people to take the best decisions and to understand that SPACE and Science are topics that relate to all of us, and not only the technology and coding enthusiast.

In this episode, we speak about the reasons and ways to bring coding into many subjects at school. Learn more about how coding can be used in STEM learning, Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics!

In this episode, Ibrahim Oussari, founder and CEO of Molengeek, shares his inspiring story. Born in Molenbeek to Moroccan immigrant parents and having left school at 13, Ibrahim became a successful entrepreneur. He launched several companies and became a local role model, advocating for accessible technology education. Molengeek, based in Brussels, has grown into a pan-European project with centers in multiple European and African cities, providing opportunities for young people to engage in technology and entrepreneurship.

In our first episode for 2024, we had the pleasure of engaging in a fascinating conversation with Koen Timmers. In this insightful discussion, we explored the pivotal role of coding in combating climate change and how it has spurred the creation of the Climate Action Project. Koen, web design professor and teacher for 20 years,created the initiative dedicated to addressing the climate emergency alongside a dedicated community of teachers. We reflect on how technology, for many of us, has proven to be a catalyst, encouraging collaboration and allowing us to confront global challenges collectively. Click on the link and jump in!

Do you know what is the relation between coding and Lego? Discover it here! In fact we are excited to share this podcast episode with Katarina Veljkovic, she is Global Teacher Prize finalist from Serbia. She employs original and innovative learning techniques that leverage modern information technology, including robots, Lego robots, mobile phones, and virtual worlds! Through these tools, I inspire my students, fostering their creativity in addressing a wide range of real-life challenges. Want to know how? Press play!

We are excited to introduce here Jowita Michalska! Jowita is Founder of Digital University, a leading educational organisation in Poland, this offer a world-class educational experience, building and digital mindset. The target groups are various bit they span from people interested in digital transformation to youth. Jowita is not only the the Founder and CEO of Digital University she has also been involved with European Union initiatives being a Digital European Union Ambassador. We will talk about jobs, Chat GPT and many other topics.

Let’s meet Jame Ferrand Gutierrez! He's the Head of Data Intelligence of Ipsos Spain, a true metaverse advocate and someone who knows ever so much about the use of data in our society. He has been working in market research and is a real expert in technology, during Covid he got a master's degree in A.I. We talk about how we can use data today and what we can do with it.

Welcome to EU Code Week Podcasts. We bring coding, computational thinking, robotics and innovation closer to you and for this episode our guest is Nicolas Babin. Nicolas with almost 35 years of expertise traveled and worked across the world, led projects in both the East and West and has even launched the robotics division of Sony Europe. As a EU Digital Ambassador he also shared with us his visions on the future and on how Blockchain, generative AI will become something that we will see more and more.

In this episode our guest is Stefania Altieri. She is an Italian teacher, she has a long experience as a teacher having tought in primary, secondary school, kindergarten and also university. She believes that the tole of coding and STEAM and STEM subjects is incredibly useful in students’ skills and competencies development. She is now working at the Ministry of Education in Italy to support schools in their path to the digital age. We discuss E-Twinning is the community for schools in Europe, founded by the European Commission, under the Erasmus+ programme. It's a fully digital platform that has been linking teachers and students since 2005 that promotes the sharing knowledge process.

Let’s meet the protagonist of this new Episode of EU Code Week podcasts: Peter Joziasse. Peter, a social entrepreneur, is very active in culture, youth participation and digital child rights in livable, smart cities. Volunteer of UNICEF and founder of the Digital Child Rights Foundation. We discussed how digitalchildrights.org started and how giving children opportunities and chances in the digital world is so important. His approach revolves around two main principles: give young people, opportunities in the digital world and, secondly, give children a voice.