ubbu

ubbu is a technology company, focused on making computational thinking accessible to all children through using their original software. 

This campaign’s goal is to advance funds that ubbu will receive from European Structural Funds and a group of social investors to execute a project and offer free digital literacy education to 80.000 children across mainland Portugal. A significant number of children benefiting from the project (17.800) study in priority educational intervention schools (TEIP). The program covers essential modules on Artificial Intelligence, Digital Security, and Financial Literacy for students from 1st to 6th grade. 

The bridge funding will allow ubbu to accelerate the execution of the project by developing content, training educators, and launching early classroom pilots. This means earlier access, earlier impact, and a head start for thousands of children.

The program will reach 80.000 children and its impact will be measured through a comprehensive evaluation of the TEIP students digital literacy skills before and after using the platform. The University of Aveiro will serve as an independent evaluator, using an adapted questionnaire based on Portugal's Digital Competence Reference Framework. ubbu aims for at least 60% of participating students to show improved digital competency levels across five key areas: Information Literacy, Communication and Citizenship, Content Creation, Security and Privacy, and Solution Development.