Good practice Imported

Fundación Esplai

Spain · Barcelona · National · See the Spain profile

Fundación Esplai's mission is to promote social inclusion and youth employment through ICT skills. Fundación Esplai aims to bridge that gap by contacting ICT corporations in order to know more about the minimum skills and technical knowledge that a junior coder needs to have. The

70%

Participants finding a job

Details

Maturity: Established
Promoter: Fundación Esplai — website
Type: Policy
Status: Ongoing
Target groups: Marginalised young people and children, Unemployed and those facing social problems
People reached: 500
People targeted: 79000
Period: 2015-01-08
Region (NUTS): ES51
Keywords: unemployment, ICT skills, social inclusion, youth, network

Context

Fundacion Esplai (Spain) promotes social inclusion and youth employment through ICT skills training, consulting ICT corporations on required junior-coder competencies to shape its curriculum, funded with EUR700,000 from EU and private sources.

Results

100% of participants improved their digital skills and gained ICT access tools; 70% of participants found a job on entering the labour market.

Implementation

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

Commonly funded by

Philanthropic / foundation funding ESF+ — European Social Fund Plus

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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

Attachments

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.

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Evidoria. Fundación Esplai. Persistent ID: 6a1d7e3f-42f0-4d77-8d62-40be6cdeaab5.

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