Impacting Lives by Teaching Digital Skills2025-11-03T15:06:35+01:00

Impacting Lives by Teaching Digital Skills

Why Powercoders?

Switzerland will soon be short of almost 40,000 ICT specialists. At the same time, there is an increasing number of well-qualified, highly motivated people from refugee and migrant backgrounds who are struggling to gain a foothold in the labor market.

There’s one solution for two problems:
Empowering refugees & migrants for an IT career.

Powercoders is an ICT job integration program for people from refugee and migrant backgrounds.

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Alumna Nasrin Jafari

I always try to see the glass half full, even the challenges and bad experiences built something positive in me.

Nasrin Jafari, Apprentice Application Developer at UBS

Abdullah Bilen

If you want something with all your heart, you can definitely do it and be successful.

Abdullah Bilen, E-Commerce Manager at Beldona

Seyhmus Direk

Beginning a new job in a new country and in a completely different industry was a big challenge for me. My colleagues were very supportive and helped me to understand and learn the team's tasks.

Seyhmus Direk, Data Analyst at UBS

6 Years ago we arrived in Switzerland with our luggage on an SBB train. And now I work for them.

Sodaba Bashiri, IT - Apprentice at SBB, Alumna Powercoders

I got a second chance at life.

Jamila Amini, DevOps Engineer at Swisscom, Alumna Powercoders

The Integration Rate Of Our Participants

90%

get an internship

70%

get a job

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Powercoders
Breitfeldstrasse 27
3014 Bern
(postal address only, no office)

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