About the ESA Coding Lab

Agence Française de Développement (AFD) implements France’s policy on international development and solidarity. Through its financing of NGOs and the public sector, as well as its research and publications, AFD supports and accelerates transitions towards a fairer, more resilient world. It also provides training in sustainable development (at AFD Campus) and other awareness-raising activities in France.

With our partners, we are building shared solutions with and for the people of the Global South. Our teams are at work on more than 4,000 projects in the field, in the French Overseas Departments and Territories, in 115 countries and in regions in crisis. We strive to protect global public goods – promoting a stable climate, biodiversity and peace, as well as gender equality, education and healthcare. In this way, we contribute to the commitment of France and the French people to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Towards a world in common.

AFD is the main financial partner of the ESA Coding Lab.

ESIEE-IT is a leading engineering university, located in the Cergy-Pontoise area, North West of Paris, in France. Accredited by the Commission des Titres d’Ingénieur (CTI), the university of digital expertise is part of CCI Paris Ile-de-France Education Group. The training courses offered by ESIEE-IT are operational and directly aligned with the growing demands and requirements of international companies.

One of its flagship projects, the Coding Factory, offers an innovative pedagogical approach, centered on the agile Scrum method, which fuses the technical aspects of coding, with a creative twist, to equip future developers with the skillsets they need to thrive.

ESIEE-IT is the main technical partner of the ESA Coding Lab. The organization is involved in the creation of the program and teaching methodologies.

The mission of the French Institute in Lebanon is to strengthen and promote cultural exchanges between France and Lebanon. The French Institute promotes French language and culture all over Lebanon through its 9 branches (Beirut, Tripoli, Jounieh, Deir El Qamar, Zahlé, Baalbeck, Saïda, Tyr and Nabatieh).

The French Institute in Lebanon – Nabatieh is the first to serve as an initial partner to the ESA Coding Lab. It was founded in 1996, serving as an assembly and asset for the Youth in Nabatieh and its surrounding area that seek to acquire or improve their linguistic and cultural knowledge.

This branch located in Nabatieh will welcome the initial class of students, as part of the ESA Coding Lab.

Established in 1996 following an intergovernmental agreement between France and Lebanon, ESA is a Business School dedicated to the education of executives and managers in Lebanon and the Middle East and managed by the Paris Ile-de-France Regional Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

Situated in the center of Beirut, and at the heart of the Middle East, ESA asserts its reach as an important international school, combining the talents of high-level learners and professors who rank among the world’s most preeminent specialists.

ESA Business School is responsible to coordinate the implementation of the ESA Coding Lab in Lebanon and manage its program.