Good practice Imported

Coders Lab

Poland · Warsaw · National · See the Poland profile

Coders Lab trains youth across all levels of education in programming skills so that they can build a career in the IT sector. Coders Lab is expanding its services to help at-risk youth leaving the foster care system gain independence and secure jobs in the IT industry. The comp

1,500

Graduates to date

80%

Graduates finding IT jobs

Details

Maturity: Established
Promoter: Coders Lab - IT — website
Type: Policy
Status: Ongoing
Target groups: Unemployed and those facing social problems, Marginalised young people and children
People reached: 1500
Period: 2017-01-09
Region (NUTS): PL91
Keywords: ICT, youth, training, digital skills, employment

Context

Coders Lab, Poland's largest vocational IT school, trains youth across education levels in programming, with its Mozesz ITy foundation specifically helping at-risk youth leaving foster care gain hard coding skills alongside soft skills like teamwork and time management.

Results

1,500 Coders Lab graduates to date; 100% of beneficiaries improved their social and digital competences; 80% of graduates go on to find IT jobs.

Implementation

Implementation detail (cost, timeline, staffing, conditions for success) is not yet available for this practice.

Commonly funded by

ESF+ — European Social Fund Plus Own resources / municipal budget

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Data sources

Where this practice's information was retrieved from, and when.

MEDICI / Digital Inclusion Atlas — accessed 2026-06-14
Practice website — accessed 2026-06-14
Information source — accessed 2026-06-14

Quality score: 72/100

How is this calculated?

Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported

Top 50% in this catalogue (610 scored practices)

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Evaluation

Evaluated by MEDICI consortium

Score profile — the dimensions behind the score — how it's computed

Innovation level3/5

How novel the approach is, from the source innovation rating (graded 0–5).

Sustainability (ongoing)1/1

Whether the initiative is still ongoing rather than ended.

Evaluation evidence0/1

Whether a substantive evaluation of the initiative exists.

Demonstrated reach1/1

Whether the initiative reached a measurable number of people.

Documented learning1/1

Whether transferable lessons learned are documented.

Cite this

Evidoria. Coders Lab. Persistent ID: 896530d4-2047-4bc7-a213-293035e93cc9.

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