Simplon.co is a social business that empowers and trains unemployed people in highly sought after digital technical trades through a series of tuition-free coding bootcamps. Priority is given to groups of individuals who are underrepresented in the tech sector, such as: women, young job seekers, unemployed youth, individuals with handicaps, refugees, and recent immigrants, regardless of their age or education level. Simplon.co has opened over 89 training centres in France and abroad, and is present in 15 countries throughout Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. Since its creation, over 4,854 trainees have graduated from Simplon’s bootcamps. Of these graduates, 75% had a positive outcome in the 6 months following their training, with 62% finding a job and 13% pursuing further tech trainings. In order to ensure the success of our trainees beyond the end of their training period, Simplon works in partnership with companies to ensure the professional integration of trainees post-graduation.

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• Africa
• Asia and Pacific
• Western Europe and North America

• Youth
• Women
• The unemployed
• Migrants
• Refugees and internally displaced people

Simplon is currently on track to organize a total of 15 #Hackeuses training sessions - with an average of 25 trainees each - before the end of 2019 in France and abroad. By 2021, we are working to organize at least 30 training sessions of 25 trainees each per year, also in France and abroad. Our goal is to recreate the #Hackeuses training in all of our training centres, both in France and abroad. This replication is currently in progress in all of our training centres in France, supported by the implementation of a deployment toolkit applicable to all centres and the training of #Hackeuses ‘points of contact’ in our regional offices. On an international level, Simplon has already carried out two #Hackeuses training sessions in Senegal. In addition, we aim to expand our international coverage in order to benefit more women coming from the Global South, most notably from West Africa. Currently, we have leads to open #Hackeuses training sessions in the Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Mali, Gabon, and India in the near future.

Priority is given to groups of individuals who are underrepresented in the tech sector, such as: women, young job seekers, unemployed youth, individuals with handicaps, refugees, and recent immigrants, regardless of their age or education level. At Simplon, we firmly believe that digital transformation is a powerful vehicle for social innovation and that it can enable those who struggle to access training and/or the job market to become the talents of tomorrow, by finding a job or through becoming an entrepreneur. Simplon is strongly committed to gender parity in the tech sector. To date, women have made up 34% of all of Simplon’s coding cohorts worldwide. By 2021, Simplon aims to achieve complete gender parity in the entirety of its network of coding bootcamps. In order to meet such an ambitious goal, Simplon has designed and implemented a global strategy to combat sexism and to increase women’s representation in the digital sector.

• Basic literacy • Distance learning • Education/training • E-literacy • Gender • Combating illiteracy • Life-long learning • Research and development (R&D) • Self-learning • Teacher training • Training ICT professionals • Volunteering • Youth