Impacting Lives by Teaching Digital Skills2025-06-26T16:21:02+02:00

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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Portrait of Delberin Ali

I went further and I survived. I did it.

Delberin Ali, Software Developer and Researcher at Institut für Data Science FHNW, Alumnus Powercoders

Seeing his father never give up made him the person he is today.

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

From Afghanistan to Switzerland, Nasrin Jafari's journey is a story of resilience and determination. Her unwavering passion for IT drove her to join Powercoders. Through Powercoders, Nasrin found the structure and support she needed to build a solid foundation for her career, which led her to UBS.

Do you like the mountains? Do you like to climb?” – “I do now.”

Ali Alshweiki, Modern Analytics Consultant at Evolusys, Alumnus Powercoders

Vevey is now his home, Evolusys his employer, and Ali sums it all up with the words “I am at the happiest time in my life right now.”

I want to learn more of this stuff!

Abdelrahman Alallaqi, Junior Software Developer at Adobe, Alumnus Powercoders

His breakthrough moment was when he was finally ready to be part of team meetings and handle his own projects.

I applied to ALL the places in the Romandie where they have an IT department.

Osman Mohammed, Apprentice in Computer Science at Camptocamp, Alumnus Powercoders

He started his computer science studies back in his home country Eritrea because he had a dream: to become a Computer Scientist.

The Integration Rate Of Our Participants

93%

get an internship

60%

get a job

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