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

Ali Alshweiki, Modern Analytics Consultant at Evolusys, Alumnus Powercoders

Powercoders alumna Sodaba Hamid

Joining Powercoders provided the perfect opportunity to follow my passion for IT.

Sodaba Hamid, Software Engineer at Datahouse AG

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

I got a second chance at life.

Jamila Amini, DevOps Engineer at Swisscom, Alumna Powercoders

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

The Integration Rate Of Our Participants

93%

get an internship

60%

get a job

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