Good practice Imported

Teen-Turn

Ireland · National · See the Ireland profile

Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported Top 54% 72/100 · Ask Evidence Copilot about this practice

More girls, from areas where third level education is uncommon, exploring an interest in technology has the potential to lead to more women gaining digital skills and earning technology qualifications, thus providing opportunities for participants to acquire job security, and mee

50 %

Participants who took up further digital-skills learning (coding/engineering)

60 %

Participants who returned to a technology career environment for further work experience

80000 EUR

Annual organisational operating cost (per year)

Details

Promoter: Teen-Turn — website
Type: Policy
Status: Ongoing
Target groups: Marginalised young people and children
People reached: 650
Period: 2015-02-05
Keywords: digital skills, technology qualifications, equal opportunity, digital society, under-represented girls

Context

Teen-Turn is an Irish internship programme ("Junior Cert to Job") that gives teenage girls from areas with low third-level uptake hands-on technology experience with industry mentors, aiming to build a digitally skilled female talent pool and reduce the gender gap in IT.

Results

The organisation reports that 50% of participants took up further digital skills learning activities including coding and engineering, and 60% returned to a technology career environment for further work experience.

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

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Quality score: 72/100

How is this calculated?

Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported

Top 54% in this catalogue (799 scored practices)

Scores cluster high, so position within the catalogue is often more telling than the number alone.

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. Teen-Turn. Persistent ID: bd7576e7-82c5-46f6-890a-9ce2015ab4d2.

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