About twenty members of the Punt TIC Network community have participated in the first virtual meeting of 2025, which has focused on the 'CodiCrack' educational project.

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Last Tuesday, January 28, the Punt TIC Network experienced the first virtual meeting of the year 2025. The new virtual meeting focused on the 'CodiCrack' project of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia and had around twenty participants, including Carles Sánchez Calonge, project coordinator, who presented the 'CodiCrack' project with the hope that the Punt TICs would be encouraged to host the initiative by making their spaces and computer equipment available to carry out the workshops.

Firstly, Sánchez shared that the 'CodiCrack' project pursued the ambitious objective of reaching 31,813 boys and girls from all over Catalonia throughout the year 2025. The educational project has an economic allocation of 7,313,000 euros and is linked to the Department of Social Rights and Inclusion of the Generalitat de Catalunya. Thus, the 'CodiCrack' project is a project that seeks to improve the digital skills of children, adolescents and young people aged 9 to 17 that the Polytechnic University of Catalonia wants to bring to the entire Catalan territory, beyond the official facilities of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, through a network of collaborative spaces distributed throughout Catalonia. The main objective is to guarantee digital inclusion and the acquisition of digital skills among children, adolescents and young people, prioritizing groups that are at risk of digital exclusion, such as, for example, young people in situations of poverty, from vulnerable environments, from rural areas, with disabilities or ex-guardians, who come from the protection system. Sánchez then explained that the contents would work on different dimensions: digital literacy, digital security, resilience, digital participation, emotional intelligence and the promotion of positive digital relationships.

Therefore, the training actions will last thirty face-to-face hours, the only mandatory requirement, will have small groups of approximately fifteen people and will be carried out during non-school hours with a maximum duration of twelve weeks. The sessions will be taught by an experienced trainer who will have the support of a monitor. Through proposals with a gamified aspect, similar to video games, students will have to solve missions and challenges that will favor active and applied learning. Specifically, three training lines will be proposed: Internet Constellation (from 9 to 11 years old), Odyssey to the Network (from 12 to 13 years old) and Futurecity (from 14 to 17 years old). Once they are completed, a certificate will be awarded. At this point, Sánchez highlighted the great value of this first contact of the children with a university environment. Finally, the possible collaboration of the Punt TIC Network with the 'CodiCrack' project of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia was discussed. Sánchez asked that interested Punt TICs send a proposal for the availability of spaces, days and hours to the email info.codi@talent.upc.edu indicating the location of the Punt TIC and the contact person. The project team would then assess the proposal, assign teaching, training and monitoring staff, and coordinate implementation. Finally, questions were resolved such as, for example, the possibility of proposing it as a summer campus during the months of June and July, the availability of computers or communication channels.