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New digital training of ethnical minorities completes pilot phase in Denmark
ReDI School of Digital Integration has successfully introduced courses in digital literacy in Copenhagen. Since October, women with an ethnical minority background have completed courses in the new tech-community that aims to empower minority women by training their digital skills and thereby give them new professional and social opportunities.
‘These women hold a great potential. We work to help them break down barriers and release their potential by improving their digital literacy and by empowering them. Everybody wins from the project. The women, their families, society and the companies in Denmark that get access to motivated and more qualified employees. We aim to work even closer with companies in Denmark and start new partnerships that will lead to a higher rate of employment for the women’.
ReDi School started as a voluntary project in Berlin in 2016, but with financial assistance from the Coca Cola Foundation and assisted by Invest in Denmark they have introduced their training concept to Denmark.
‘We wish ReDi School the best of luck with their activities in Denmark. We have already seen that ReDi School has come far in creating a social impact in Berlin and Munich. Hopefully, they will be able to expand their activities further in Denmark by partnering with municipalities and companies and reinforce the integration of ethnical minorities in the Danish labor market’.
ReDI School of Digital Integration educates more than 1.000 people every year in their courses in Berlin and Munich. Since October, ReDi School has trained 35 women in a series of pilot courses that will end in a DemoDay 4 December in Copenhagen.