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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...

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...

Three smiling women at their laptops during a kood/JobFair challenge

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...

Cheerful kood/Garage48 bootcamp participants waving from their laptops

Reflections from kood/Garage48 Empowering Women coding bootcamp

What happens when women who already manage projects, teams, businesses, and chaos decide to look under the hood of the systems they use every day?...

kood/Võru honoured at Võru's Independence Day reception, the screen reading “Programmeerimiskooli kood/Võru avamine”

kood/Võru is Võru City’s “Deed of the Year 2025”

28.02.2026 At the reception dedicated to the 108th anniversary of the Republic of Estonia on February 23, the City of Võru recognized individuals, institutions, and...

The kood/Järva team with the Järva County Deed of the Year award and flowers in the study room

kood/Järva is Järva county’s “Deed of the Year 2025”!

18.02.2026 Since 2003, SA Järvamaa (the Järva County Development Centre) and the regional newspaper Järva Teataja have honored the county’s most impactful achievements. The “Deed...