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iSTEP launches follow-up course in Tiefenau

Our sewing studio is set up and open for enthusiastic participants. Yes, that's right, this time we even have Eri and Marc at the sewing machines, who are fully focused on their work. Their first pencil cases are...

On Saturday, April 5, 2025, part of the Elbasan task force departs, while Hanni and Esther, the leaders of the sewing course, are scheduled to transfer to the small town of Librazhd. Adrian and Eri, one of the local...

Mit bunten Blöcken und kreativen Ideen haben wir diese Woche Kindern in Elbasan einen Einstieg in die Welt des Programmierens ermöglicht – eine Erfahrung voller Neugier und Aha-Momente!

We arrive at the school building in good time to make the final preparations in the two classrooms.

and tomorrow, Monday, we will start with the two courses. We expect around 10 participants per course.

The time has come to present our 2024 annual report. We are very grateful for how the last year has gone. Of course, there were challenges, but that's to be expected. Overall, however, we are very satisfied with what we...

Monday morning, the start of a new week full of new insights and experiences awaits us. The morning began with a hearty and healthy breakfast at our hotel in the center of Elbasan, before we were picked up shortly after...

Today is the first day of the course in Librazhd, a small town in eastern Albania with a population of around 13,000.

This week is planned as a refresher course for the sewing class held in the spring. Since all the women in the sewing class are otherwise very active in the A2B center, the sewing machines have unfortunately been idle...

We have all settled back into everyday life in Switzerland. But the impressions from Albania remain. Once again, I realize how privileged we are and how grateful I am to live in Switzerland.

As I write this, Albanian TV is actually showing a concert recording of the legendary rock band Pink Floyd. Since I play guitar myself, I am always thrilled by the riffs that lead guitarist David Gilmour gets out of his...

The courses in Lezha and Gjadër are slowly coming to an end. We have now completed four out of five course days at both locations. For the young people in Lezha, this means that we have finished HTML, CSS, and...

The JavaScript part of the web development course at Lezha High School is picking up speed. Immersing oneself in a programming language is a challenge, but the course participants are slowly advancing into the deeper...

On Friday evening, April 5, 2024, we celebrated the end of the course in Elbasan with a thank-you dinner for all the staff. On Saturday, April 6, 2024, the time had come: Michelle and Olivia landed in Tirana in the...

The third day of the course is already behind us. Today, the beginner group focused on film editing. The aim was to put the recorded video material in the correct order according to the storyboard and edit it together....

The three classrooms are set up and the iSTEP team is ready to welcome the course participants. The IT Advanced group starts with the topic of databases and uses numerous examples to develop an understanding of the...

The WiZZair Airbus landed in Tirana with a delay of one hour. Alketa, the head of the aid organization A2B, was waiting for us at the airport and took us to the hotel in Elbasan. After a quick snack, we quickly retired...

In Lezha, we met Izabela, a local IT specialist who fits perfectly into our team. This is how she describes her start at iSTEP: When I got in touch with one of the team members (Adrian) and he explained the iSTEP...

After a big theoretical block, the participants in the IT course finally got to put their knowledge into practice. By the end of the course, everyone had successfully mastered their first steps with JavaScript and...

The IT course in Elbasan has been running for several days now. Both the participants and the iSTEP team are very enthusiastic and motivated.

Three days ago, the first part of the team was still on the road. We left Switzerland by car and headed to Ancona (Italy), and from there we took the ferry to Durrës (Albania). The first IT and multimedia courses have...