Get a quick intro to the coding academy for refugees by its founder Christian Hirsig. In Bern and Zürich already over 30 students have graduated. They have found their way back to IT in a 13 week program and all found an internship company. The first ones are already hired and are now independent from social welfare. The IT industry jumped in with mentors and coaches who where allowed to get involved in the program on company time and they were providing the internships.

From Christian you will learn learn how you can help to support refugees in Switzerland to make their way back in to IT.

Christian Hirsig was born in Bern and raised in the Swiss town Belp. His father and his mother are both entrepreneurs. After high school Hirsig started at the commerce college in Bern with staying one