Epicode: ours is a training that reduces the Digital Gap

Teach online coding to young people and companies to fill the digital gaps of Italian companies. This is what Epicode does, an Ed-Tech Company founded last year to meet the training and retraining needs of workers most affected by the economic crisis.

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The founders of Epicode. From left: Claudio Vaccaro, Ivan Ranza, Marco Rosci, Andrea Febbraio

Epicode appeared on the market last year as an ed-tech company capable of responding to the needs of workers most affected by the crisis. Today Epicode Today, its training courses are sold out and it has closed its first capital increase of about one million euros. It was founded by four training professionals: Claudio Vaccaro, founder of BizUp, Marco Rosci, former Marketing Director of the Rome Business School, Ivan Ranza, a manager with a proven track record of success in large media and tech groups and the entrepreneur Andrea Febbraio. " In the current context of pandemic crisis, it has become even more evident how digital for companies is a business asset (not just a sales channel) and how the digital transformation is no longer an option but a necessity, " says Claudio Vaccaro, president of Epicode. "From this point of view, internalizing technical skills or redesigning the profile of employees, also thanks to the incentives for training available, is a historic opportunity to be seized. Epicode wants to support companies in this process of acquisition and transformation of IT talents, thanks to its model, unique on the market". This educational model, based on the fundamental principles of Ed-Tech, is called Epic (Engagement, Purpose, Interaction, Coding).

An online training proposal

From the intensive Bootcamp model, dedicated to young people, graduates and undergraduates, to training products designed for companies, Epicode's mission is to have a considerable impact on technological progress and employment rates in Italy and beyond, thanks to scalable and 100% online learning models. For each course Epicode will award 3 scholarships to motivated students who will not have the possibility to pay for their studies. One of these scholarships will be reserved for women only, in order to dismantle the stereotype that the developer is exclusively male and encourage this type of career among women. The training offer for companies is divided into several courses:

  • New skills, aimed at the insertion in the company of junior web developers trained thanks to Epicode bootcamps, where partner companies can access the profiles of trainees and easily select the ideal candidate, thanks to a complete assessment (assessments obtained during the course and analysis of soft skills) and where, in case of recruitment, there is no intermediation cost;
  • Upskill, aimed at companies that need to update or enhance the IT skills of their employees with catalog or customized courses;
  • Reskill, aimed at large companies that need to convert internal resources without technical skills into developers. The stated goal is to create new jobs for thousands of young people and invest in their talent, leveraging on another big gap: the one between supply and demand, which sees 30 thousand uncovered positions of the more than 106 thousand currently available (source: Osservatorio delle Competenze Digitali) due to the growing demand for specialized figures.

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