HackYourFuture Belgium

What Is HackYourFuture?

Refugees often experience challenges in finding a suitable job to apply and further develop their skills. Yet, the number of unfilled vacancies in the IT sector is increasing at a fast pace.

HackYourFuture was founded in 2015 in Amsterdam, with the aim to enable refugees to build digital skills for a career in web development, facilitate the integration of newcomers, and address the shortage of qualified workforce in the IT sector. Since 2015, HackYourFuture coding schools have also opened in Copenhagen and Malmö.

On 20 May 2018, HackYourFuture Belgium launched its first class in Belgium with 13 highly motivated students at BeCentral, the digital campus in Brussels. Applications are now open with class starting on 19 January 2020. Deadline to apply: 30 November 2019.

Our Mission

Empower refugees by teaching them the necessary skills for a career in software development.

Our Programme

Our 6 months course is divided into 8 modules of 3 weeks each, with the exception of the final project which takes 6 weeks.

Our Training

Every Sunday volunteer-coaches and students meet at BeCentral in Brussels for in-person classes. Students are supported online with their homework during the week.

WANT TO HIRE ONE OF OUR GRADUATES?

The students are trained to perform well as junior web developers in a modern IT team, write clean code, and think like problem solvers.
Our graduates are eager to start their career as developers. Drop us an email at contact@hackyourfuture.be and tell us about your hiring needs.

WHAT DO WE TEACH?

Our six months course is divided into eight modules which cover programming languages such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Node, Databasing in MySQL/MongoDB and React. However, what we value most is that our students learn how to think as a programmer, how to solve problems, and how to manage a project. This fundamental knowledge prepares our students for their first job as a web developer.

HTML

CSS

Command-line interface

JavaScript

Node.js

React

Databases

Final project

WHO CAN APPLY?

We teach motivated refugees who want to start their career in web development. The course is open to anyone staying in Belgium. Women are strongly recommended to apply.

You have to be very motivated to start a career in programming.

You have to speak English at an intermediate level.

You have to study a minimum of 25 hours per week to keep up with our program.

We accept students from all over Belgium and we cover transportation costs.

We provide laptops for students that don't have their own during the training.

Apply for HackYourFuture Belgium

Start the training at HackYourFuture Belgium

6 months programme duration

Graduate as software developer

BECOME A COACH

Our coaches are volunteers who have experience in the field of programming, who are passionate about what they do and who are eager to share their knowledge with the students. Our six months course is divided in 8 modules of 3 weeks. As volunteer coach, you commit to teach one specific module for 3 Sundays in a row.

You can also mentor one of our students. Mentors don't need to have technical skills. Together with the students, you'll make sure that their CV & LinkedIn profiles are up to local standards, you'll prepare them for the first job interviews and share feedback.

Interested in becoming a volunteer coach or mentor? Complete the registration form below and we will get in touch with you soon.

Dries Van Ransbeeck

Founder HackYourFuture Belgium

“Thanks to organizing Open Summer of Code every year with Open Knowledge Belgium, Hack Your Future has access to an extensive pool of social impact coaches”

Gijs Corstens

Founder HackYourFuture

“However, what we value most is that our students learn how to think like a programmer, how to solve problems, and how to manage a project”

Team

Dries Van Ransbeeck

Co-Founder

Manon Brulard

Co-Founder

Julia Thomaschki

Co-Founder

Maïté Cluydts

Coordinator

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Support us

Support the developers of tomorrow

Help refugees build digital skills for a career in web development. We're a nonprofit that relies on support from people like you. Thanks to your support we can keep our programme free of charge for students.

By supporting HackYourFuture Belgium you’re helping every year:

150 newcomers get an introduction to web development
60 students participate in our intensive 6-months programme
40 graduates find a job in the IT sector

Get in touch

Email

contact@hackyourfuture.be

Address

BeCentral, Cantersteen 12, 1000 Bruxelles

Application Email

applications@hackyourfuture.be