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Junior Coding Academy

Greece · Patras · Transnational · See the Greece profile

Junior Coding Academy (JCA) is an initiative, which offers Scratch programming activities to school students aged 10-16 years of various socio-economic backgrounds. It aims to improve digital competences, with an emphasis on training more women and other under-privileged and unde

600

Students engaged (target)

60%

Share of participants who are girls, refugees or from low-income areas

Details

Maturity: Scaling
Promoter: InterMediaKT - Interactive Media Knowledge Trasnfer — website
Type: Service
Status: Ongoing
Target groups: Marginalised young people and children, Unemployed and those facing social problems
People reached: 600
Period: 2017-02-01
Region (NUTS): EL63
Keywords: coding, Scratch, technology, digital gap

Context

Junior Coding Academy offers Scratch programming activities in Western Greece for students aged 10-16 from rural and under-represented backgrounds, run by InterMediaKT with the Hellenic Open University's e-CoMeT laboratory, targeting at least 600 students with at least 60% girls.

Results

The programme reports 60% of participants being girls, children of refugees or students from low-income areas, in line with its inclusion target.

Implementation

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

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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: 76/100

How is this calculated?

Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported

Top 33% 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 level4/5

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. Junior Coding Academy. Persistent ID: 6d555ab6-5f83-43a0-89ed-257b7f45319b.

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