# EU Code Week reports 1.15 million students reached in Italy

> The Italian EU Code Week Hub said more than 1.15 million students were reached and over 28,000 coding activities were registered in Italy over the past two years.

The Yoink Report (CodeYoink) | Europe | Schools | News of 23 October 2026 | Published 5 November 2026

EU Code Week's Italian hub said on 23 October 2026 that it had reached more than 1.15 million students in Italy over two years.

EU Code Week invites people of all ages to explore coding. Its [about page](https://codeweek.eu/about) says it began in 2013, is run by volunteers and is supported by the European Commission. The average participant is 11 years old. The main event lasts two weeks each October and ran from 10 to 25 October in 2026.

In [a post on the EU Code Week blog](https://codeweek.eu/blog/eu-code-week-italy-la-stampa-2026/), the hub said over 28,000 activities were registered in Italy over the same two years. That is up from more than 24,600 when the figures were first uploaded. The Italian version of the post says the count of students rose from nearly one million to more than 1,150,000. The hub is run by Fondazione LINKS in Turin and has been the national hub since 2024.

The post was written after the Italian newspaper La Stampa reported on Code Week on 9 October 2026. That article gave a lower figure of 950,000 participants, because it was published before the count was updated. The hub said the number of its Leading Teachers doubled from 35 to 70.

The about page says Code Week is now a year-round movement, so schools are not limited to the October fortnight. The post does not say how students were counted or whether a student who joined several activities was counted more than once. It also gives no figures for each region or year.

## Sources

- EU Code Week: [EU Code Week in the Spotlight: Over 1.15 Million Students Engaged in Italy](https://codeweek.eu/blog/eu-code-week-italy-la-stampa-2026/)
- EU Code Week: [About EU Code Week](https://codeweek.eu/about)

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