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Rails Girls Sofia

Bulgaria · Sofia · National · See the Bulgaria profile · See the Sofia profile

Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported Top 50% 72/100 · Ask Evidence Copilot about this practice

The Rails Girls workshops are designed for absolute beginners in programming. These events are not suitable for candidates who have more experience with technology, programming and/or study technically oriented specialties at a university. Instructors use a simple technology to e

Details

Maturity: Established
Promoter: Digital National Alliance — website
Type: Service
Status: Ongoing
Target groups: Marginalised young people and children
People reached: 2000
People targeted: 50000
Period: 2004-01-01
Region (NUTS): BG41
Keywords: Gender equality, STEAM, programming, workshops

Context

Rails Girls Sofia is a two-day, annual, volunteer-run workshop introducing absolute-beginner women to programming (sketching, prototyping, basic coding), organised in Bulgaria by the Digital National Alliance as part of the EU Digital Skills and Jobs Coalition; a 14th edition was planned for 2020 but postponed due to the pandemic.

Implementation

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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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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. Rails Girls Sofia. Persistent ID: 5946d791-1d2a-4ae5-bac6-13ce653f8f71.

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