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Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2014 15:28:21 +0000<br>
From: <a href="mailto:Lucilla.SIOLI@ec.europa.eu">Lucilla.SIOLI@ec.europa.eu</a><br>
Subject: Invitation to contribute to making the EU Code Week a success<br>
To: <a href="mailto:CNECT-F4@ec.europa.eu">CNECT-F4@ec.europa.eu</a><br><br></p><div>
<font face="Verdana" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;"><font color="#1F497D">Dear all,</font></span></font></div>
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<font face="Verdana" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;"><font color="#1F497D">As you know, the 2<font size="1"><span style="font-size:6.65pt;"><sup>nd</sup></span></font> edition of <a href="http://codeweek.eu/"><font color="blue"><u>EU Code Week</u></font></a> is taking place from 11 to 17 October this year.</font></span></font></div>
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<font face="Verdana" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;"><font color="#1F497D">It is an important milestone in our joint efforts to promote coding skills in Europe. The idea is to make coding more visible, demystify these skills, and bring motivated people together to learn. We aim at getting millions of children, parents, teachers, entrepreneurs and policy makers to come together in events and classrooms<b> </b>to learn programming and related skills. This is why we warmly invite you to contribute to making EU Code Week a success. You can do so by: </font></span></font></div>
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<font face="Verdana" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;"><font color="#1F497D">hosting coding workshops at your premises;</font></span></font></li>
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<font face="Verdana" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;"><font color="#1F497D">lending your staff as coaches in a "back-to-coach" action;</font></span></font></li>
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<font face="Verdana" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;"><font color="#1F497D">organising fun coding challenges for kids, students, others;</font></span></font></li>
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<font face="Verdana" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;"><font color="#1F497D">providing coding tutorials;</font></span></font></li>
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<font face="Verdana" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;"><font color="#1F497D">offering any other in-kind contribution for coding events;</font></span></font></li>
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<font face="Verdana" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;"><font color="#1F497D">making publicity about EU Code Week through your normal channels;</font></span></font></li>
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<font face="Verdana" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;"><font color="#1F497D">launching a coding competition between schools/cities/open to everyone</font></span></font></li>
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<font face="Verdana" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;"><font color="#1F497D">How to organise such an event and map it on the EU Code Week website can be found here: <a href="http://events.codeweek.eu/guide/"><font color="blue"><u>http://events.codeweek.eu/guide/</u></font></a> </font></span></font></div>
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<font face="Verdana" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;"><font color="#1F497D">For local events, you can get in touch with the EU Code Week Ambassadors: <a href="http://events.codeweek.eu/ambassadors/"><font color="blue"><u>http://events.codeweek.eu/ambassadors/</u></font></a><font color="black">. </font>You can ask them what they need help with.</font></span></font></div>
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<font face="Verdana" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;"><font color="#1F497D">Please do keep us informed of your initiatives by sending us a return e-mail with a short description of your contributions so that we can help you promote your activities by mentioning them in our communication around EU Code Week!</font></span></font></div>
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<font face="Verdana" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;"><font color="#1F497D">Should you have any further questions, please don't hesitate to contact us.</font></span></font></div>
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<font face="Verdana" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;"><font color="#1F497D">We look forward to hearing from you! </font></span></font></div>
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<font face="Verdana" size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt;"><font color="#1F497D" size="2"><span style="font-size:9pt;"><b>Lucilla Sioli </b><br><br><b> </b><a name="_GoBack"><br><img src="cid:J1lO-BCS_cuP5yOcDZ3fhg1@webmail.informatics-europe.org"><img src="cid:LnU2XiRJcpYoFdTBKDYMnw2@webmail.informatics-europe.org"><br><b>European Commission</b><br>
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