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Digital Wolves

Belgium · Antwerpen · National · See the Belgium profile

Digital Wolves aims to introduce the wonderful digital world to youngsters (aged 5 to 18) and foster their curiosity via workshops, most often in schools and public libraries. Digital Wolves activities aim to encourage participants to discover that the digital world is not only f

just over 100
Children reached at start (2014)
more than 16,000
Children reached (2018)
20,000 (prognosis)
Projected children reached (2019)
Digital Wolves

Details

Maturity
Scaling
Promoter
Digitale Wolven vzw — website
Type
Service
Status
Ongoing
Target groups
Marginalised young people and children
People reached
16000
People targeted
20000
Period
2015-01-01 – 2018-12-31
Region (NUTS)
BE21
Keywords
digital, skills, learning, training, childhood

Context

Digital Wolves (Digitale Wolven vzw) is a Belgian non-profit founded at the end of 2014 in the Antwerp region, introducing children and youth aged 5-18 to the digital world through workshops in schools and public libraries.

Objectives

The aim is to reduce entry barriers to STEM studies by giving children early contact with IT and technology, encouraging them to create rather than consume, with special attention to less-favoured youngsters who have less access to digital facilities.

Activities

Workshops range from 2 hours to a full week and cover technologies such as augmented reality, robots and IoT; the organisation partners with schools (e.g. AP Hogeschool), public libraries, City Pirates vzw, Cronos Groep, Digital Belgium, Stem Academy, Robots 4 all, Konato, and the EU's Digital Skills and Jobs Coalition.

Results

Participation grew from just over 100 children at the start in 2014 to more than 16,000 children and young people in 2018, with a prognosis of 20,000 for 2019 following team expansion.

Conclusions

The organisation registered as a non-profit in 2017 and, starting from the Antwerp region in 2014, is now expanding to the national level thanks to government funding.

Implementation

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