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Large cheering group of Ukrainian women at a Garage48 Empowering Women programme, hands in the air

kood/Garage48 Empowering Women hackathons come to Kenya, Uganda and Ukraine

This December, //kood and Garage48 run free 48-hour hackathons in Nairobi, Kampala and Zhytomyr, where young people – with girls and young women at the centre – turn problems from their own communities into first digital prototypes.

Karmen Tigas of //kood speaking on stage – text “Karmen Tigas @ DIGIT conference”

//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.

Speaker opening the kood/Empower coding bootcamp in kood/Jõhvi, screen reading “Welcome to: kood/Empower”

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.

Two women chatting at the //kood 5th birthday celebration, guests in the background

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...

Two women on stage in front of a kood/Garage48 Empowering Women banner, one speaking into a microphone

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!

The kood/Moldova team posing cheerfully on a sofa

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...

Jamie, Grace and Gilbert laughing on a yellow sofa at //kood

“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...

Egon Saks at his desk with code on the screens

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...

Saba at kood/Jõhvi's batch 5 opening day by the chalkboard wall

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...

kood/Jõhvi batch 5 graduates in a group photo

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...

Team LIIK presenting their city sports platform at the hackathon

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...