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MAKE CODE: Programa o teu Futuro
Portugal · Porto · Regional · See the Portugal profile · See the Porto profile
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported Top 80% 52/100 · Ask Evidence Copilot about this practice
The main objective is to prepare students from 6 to 15 years for a digital society by teaching programming, increasing and stimulating taste and interest in acquiring digital skills. The programme supports students and teachers in education. They use learning tools based on compu
9000
Students and teachers reached (2018-2021)
Details
- Promoter
- Fundação da Juventude — website
- Type
- Service
- Status
- Ongoing
- Target groups
- Marginalised young people and children
- People reached
- 9000
- People targeted
- 9000
- Period
- 2018-08-31 – 2021-04-29
- Region (NUTS)
PT11- Keywords
- Digital Skills, Young people, Vulnerable Territories
Context
MAKE CODE is an initiative of the Youth Foundation (Fundação da Juventude), supported by Microsoft, aimed at improving the digital skills of young people, teachers and schools in the Northern Region of Portugal. It targets schools within Priority Intervention Educational Territories (TEIP), located in economically and socially disadvantaged territories marked by poverty, social exclusion, violence, indiscipline, abandonment and school failure.
Objectives
To prepare students aged 6 to 15 for a digital society by teaching programming, increasing and stimulating interest in acquiring digital skills, and supporting both students and teachers, even teachers without prior programming knowledge.
Activities
MAKE CODE uses Micro:bit (a microcontroller board) and Minecraft: Education Edition, part of Microsoft's MakeCode-based coding environment, as learning tools based on computer games. Each teacher receives in-person or online training support for implementing these technologies in the classroom, and schools receive free Micro:bit kits and Minecraft: Education Edition licences.
Results
The programme reached around 9,000 students and teachers, matching its stated target, over its 2018-2021 run.
Implementation
- Indicative cost
- Medium (€50k–€500k)
- Time to results
- Medium (1–3 years)
- Staffing & skills
- Fundação da Juventude programme team, Microsoft as technology partner
Conditions for success
- Free hardware (Micro:bit) and software licences (Minecraft: Education Edition) removing cost/equipment barriers for schools
- In-person and online teacher training so non-specialist teachers can deliver the programme
- Targeting schools within Priority Intervention Educational Territories (TEIP) in deprived areas to reach vulnerable populations
Where it fits
- Governance type
- NGO (youth foundation) with corporate technology partner
- Scale
- regional (Northern Portugal)
Commonly funded by
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
- Information source — accessed 2026-06-14
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