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2025 at //kood: a year of expansion and impact

2025 was a year of important progress at //kood. We opened new learning centres in Estonia, expanded programming education into upper secondary schools through kood/FutureCoders,...

Four //kood students taking a selfie at the Swedbank office, the city behind them

Stepping inside Swedbank: what //kood students learned from job shadowing

In late November and early December, //kood students had the opportunity to step inside one of Estonia’s leading banks. A group of students participated in...

Adult attendees with laptops at the junior developer programme launch

More than 800 applicants applied for the junior developer reskilling programme

The junior developer reskilling programme has started in Tallinn, Jõhvi, Paide and Võru. The programme is carried out by //kood on behalf of the Education...

A learner explaining something to a fellow learner at a laptop at kood/JobFair

“Always be reviewing”- takeaways from the Swedbank code review

Recently, our students joined an online session with Swedbank developers to review their projects. The session was an invite-only event where our students got to...

Kätlin Merisalu and Kaspar Tammist receiving kood/Järva's Learning Initiative of 2025 special prize on stage

kood/Järva – Learning Initiative of 2025

The Estonian Association of Adult Educators Andras has recognised kood/Järva this year with a national Special Prize for Learning Initiative of 2025. kood/Järva began five...

Mari-Liis Kitter speaking at the Entrepreneurship Awards gala where kood/Jõhvi was named Entrepreneurship Promoter 2025

kood/Jõhvi – Entrepreneurship Promoter 2025

On 1 November, at the annual Entrepreneurship Award Gala, kood/Jõhvi was announced as the Entrepreneurship Promoter of 2025. The award was accepted by //kood and...

Three people on stage receiving “Best Public–Private ICT Cooperation Project of 2025”, the screen reading Kood/Future Coders

kood/FutureCoders – Best Public–Private ICT Cooperation Project

At the competition organised by the Ministry of Justice and Digital Affairs (JDM) and the Estonian Association of Information Technology and Telecommunications (ITL), the initiative...

“Meet the Sprinters” graphic with portraits of Janne and Hanna

Meet Ingrid & Mattias – two Lightning McQueens of the Selection Sprint

Our Selection Sprint 18 — the admissions period — is now in its third and final week. As always, we’re sitting down with a few...

A large group of kood/Empower participants cheering in the kood/Jõhvi study room

“Could I actually code?” – reflections from kood/Empower bootcamp

We spoke with Eliisa, Kadri, and Esther – three participants in the kood/Empower second bootcamp – to hear what motivated them to try coding, what...

No tech background? No problem: Elise Marie & Yukiko’s journey to learning code

The Selection Sprint, an admissions test, isn’t just about learning to code—it’s about taking bold steps into something completely new and discovering if it’s the...

Mari-Liis Kitter with the kood/Zhytomyr team at kood/Jõhvi, all in kood/Zhytomyr T-shirts

From Jõhvi to Zhytomyr and Nairobi: //kood expands tech education to Ukraine and Kenya

In 2021, we opened our first campus in a small town in Estonia with a not-so-small ambition — to make high-quality tech education accessible to...

From Human Rights and Finance to Tech: Two sprinters on a mission to kick-start their futures at our new location, kood/Võru

Every year, hundreds of motivated individuals step into the Selection Sprint, ready to push their limits, solve complex problems with the hopes of starting to...