Our e-Skills4all pilot sessions took place on February 4th and 11th 2020, in French and in English. 22 women attended our training, refreshed their digital skills and gained their “Problem Solving” and “Online Safety” e-Badges by using the e-Skills4All platform. The e-Skills4All project initiates a holistic approach to promote digital literacy while fighting skills mismatches […]

A new week full of Coding and Web Development has been held from the 27 to the 31 of January at the Host of Startups in Luxembourg City. The one-week, full-day, workshop was held by our instructors Nizar and Antoine and was focused on the computer languages HTML, CSS and JavaScript. A group of 10 […]

On the 16th of January 2020, WIDE organised the final conference of the Gender4STEM Erasmus+ Project. We were delighted to welcome Sophie Viger, Managing Director of 42, an innovative and inspiring coding school in Paris. She introduced 42 and gave the audience an overview of the learning methods provided in the school, a peer-to-peer learning […]

For several months, Serena, our coding youth coach, taught about the digital field to children of Esch-sur-Alzette. The workshops were held on Thursdays at the UpFoundation. With the use of Kniwwelino, a creative learning tool developed at the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST), the children learned how to do basic programming. The workshops […]

Last week we finished our series of Saturdays Coding Classes at the CID Library in Luxembourg City. The program was held on 6 consecutive Saturdays. A group of women was able to learn the basics of HTML, CSS, and Javascript. The classes were held by Steve Lourenço. He started explaining about the history and the […]

On the 4th of December, we hold our second Cybersecurity Workshop, which was open for women of different backgrounds in business and management. We had the pleasure to listen to two experts working in the field: Christophe Bianco from Excellium and Fabien Mathey from SECURITYMADEIN.LU. The morning session dove into issues like Cybersecurity in Organizations, […]

On Wednesday, November 27, following the success of three previous editions, WIDE in partnership with Silicon Luxembourg and BIL organized its fourth evening dedicated to Women Founders. The sold-out event brought together 7 talented women who accepted an invitation to share their stories and their determination in the realization of their project and the development […]

In November, WIDE traveled to its first startup mission to Tel Aviv. The delegation of 13 women included representatives of the ministry, ICT policymakers, startup incubators coordinators and female founders coming from the Luxembourgish startup ecosystem. They met with the leading members of the Israeli Startup scene. The purpose of the mission was to get […]

The 6th edition of Rails Girls Luxembourg took place on Saturday 19 October at the Forum Geeseknäppchen in Luxembourg City. This year as well, the event was a great success with about 20 volunteer coaches who came to support 50 participants! Organized by WIDE with the support of Digital Luxembourg, Rails Girls Luxembourg gave participants […]