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//kood at Digit 2026: the skills no one talks about, but everyone hires for

At Digit 2026 in Tartu on 9 October, Karmen Tigas from //kood gives a keynote on the skills employers actually hire for, and Ivo Kund and Agur Jõgi discuss the future on a panel.

kood/Empower bootcamp is under way in Jõhvi – next stop: the Garage48 hackathon

From 6 to 9 October, women from Ida-Virumaa are writing their first code at kood/Jõhvi. Next up: the Garage48 Empowering Women hackathon on 16–18 October.

8 Founders, 5 Years of Tech Education – all started from Jõhvi, Estonia

Five years ago today, the tech school //kood opened its doors in Jõhvi. Since then, nearly 200 companies and organizations have hired //kood students and...

We found how to get women into tech! Join this October for a 4-day bootcamp

Garage48 4-day bootcamp registration are open for October! Ida-Virumaa, reserve your place now!

Thrown into the deep end: //kood brings AI-era engineering to Moldova

22.06.2026 Estonia’s peer-learning technology school is opening in Chișinău this autumn. Behind the launch: a fast-moving partnership, a tech sector booming faster than almost anywhere...

“In Kenya, I learned the theory. At //kood, I learned to actually build software and got a chance to grow professionally.”

10.06.2026 Three Kenyan software engineers and recent university graduates spent the cold spring with us in Tallinn as part of the Digital Explorers programme. They...

Alumnus experience story: The biggest growth challenge is becoming an engineer who sees the bigger picture

03.06.2026 //kood alumnus Egon Saks now works as a Product Engineer at Inbank, combining his international business and startup background with a career in technology....

Who is a software engineer in 2026?

01.06.2026 For five years, //kood has been training people to become software engineers. Every couple of years, we update our core-curriculum to adapt to the...

Can you work and study at the same time? Yes, but it’s not easy – Saba’s story

28.04.2026 If you’ve read our previous story, you might remember Saba – an Anti-Money Laundering Specialist at Wise, originally from Pakistan, standing at the edge...

87 graduates and 10 nationalities: kood/Jõhvi’s fifth batch reflects the growing reach of practical technology education

Last Friday, kood/Jõhvi’s fifth batch graduated with 87 students representing ten different nationalities, including a winner of science show “Rakett 69.” The largest number of...

Garage48 Empowering Women (Ida-Viru Edition): Where tech meets entrepreneurship

20.04.2026 On 20-22 March 2026, Garage48 returned to Ida-Viru to host the Empowering Women hackathon at kood/Jõhvi. The Empowering Women story actually started back more...

Estonia’s top tech companies challenged future developers with real-life problems at kood/JobFair

02.04.2026 Last week, we brought together 200 future developers and several Estonia’s leading tech companies in Jõhvi for kood/JobFair. At the reimagined job fair, our...