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

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

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

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

I want to learn more of this stuff!

Abdelrahman Alallaqi, Junior Software Developer at Adobe, Alumnus 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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