October 31st 2022: More than 1.200 children coming from the rural areas can join for free coding & robotics clubs in public libraries, benefiting from 8 months of webinars held by 36 top professionals from Societe Generale Global Solution Centre, which is continuing in this way the investment in the CODE Kids program, the biggest […]

Bucharest, 21 October 2022 – Librarians from counties bordering Ukraine have received specialised training to develop their skills in dealing with refugees in their communities, be they adults or children. The event took place on 21 October and started with a press conference to discuss the new role public libraries are having to assume in […]

Dolj, 30 September 2022: “CODE Kids Drone Pilot School” arrives in Brabova. Children from 5 free programming and robotics clubs run in rural libraries in the south of Romania organised a filming-event at the Izvoranu-Geblescu cula, simultaneously flying their drones to capture the historical site as well as possible. The selected children represent CODE Kids […]

Bucharest, 10.10.2022. Sebastian Burduja, Minister of Research, Innovation and Digitization participated in a unique robotics hour in the CODE Kids club, an event that took place on October 8 at the Titu City Library. The Minister got involved in the work of one of the teams, building a project with the children: the ultrasonic sensor […]

“ Bucharest, August 25th 2022 – 600 children from CODE Kids programming clubs organized in public libraries around the country are, starting today, students of Green School of the Future program, following a partnership between Vodafone Romania Foundation and Progress Foundation. The program is designed for  6-10 years old and 10-14 years old age groups […]

CODE Kids alumni had a memorable teambuilding in Bucharest and Cluj – 22 aspiring programmers, graduates of the coding clubs organized by Progress Foundation in rural libraries in Romania lived for 2 days an intense learning experience and saw what it means to work in a gaming firm. Thus, they received valuable and insightful information […]

Bucharest, 24.06.2022. CODE Kids, Progress Foundation’s flagship project, receives international recognition at the highest level by winning first prize at the prestigious Emerging Europe Awards 2022 competition.  The project gives rural children the chance to join a robotics club for free, preparing them for the jobs of the future. Students aged 10-14 have access to […]

We have applied with CODE Kids – Program the future of your community to the Emerging Europe Awards 2022 in the Future-proof Education Initiative of the Year category and we are selected in the top III successful initiatives aimed at improving education and lifelong learning in the digital age. We need your vote to win! We want […]

60 years ago, a woman who was a marine biologist, Rachel Carson and her editorial piece from The New Yorker “Silent Spring” have started the ecological revolution. In that text, she has asked people to imagine how would a park and a city look like, if all life would be taken out of the picture: […]

The “Ioan N. Roman” County Library of Constanta has opened the CODE Kids programming club and has not one, but five groups of beginners. 77 children have signed up to learn the mysteries of coding and robotics. A number straight out of fairy tales. Even the space in which the students work shows that their […]