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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.

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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...

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....

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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...

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...

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...

Slide “//kood network”: kood/Jõhvi, kood/Võru, kood/Järva, kood/Zhytomyr, kood/Nairobi, kood/Sisu and kood/FutureCoders

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,...

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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...

Three //kood alumni in the new k/ logo T-shirts

Meet Anton: The person behind our new merch design

This summer, we launched a merch design contest to collaborate with our community on a new merch drop. With help from the jury, the finalists...

The kood/Alumni Night audience, one guest speaking into a microphone

kood/Alumni Night

On Tuesday evening, the //kood community filled SEB Innovation Centre with something you can’t manufacture: human connection. Our alumni night brought together graduates and reminded...

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...

Kaspar Tammist speaking at the kood/Järva opening in Paide on 27 November 2025

The new kood/Järva learning centre is now open!

On November 27th, we opened the newly renovated kood/Järva learning centre in the heart of Paide. The centre brings future skills and new career opportunities...