From the campuses, the cohorts, and the people behind //kood Ukraine.
The same peer-to-peer model that produced working engineers in Tallinn is coming to Odesa. No lectures, no entrance exams — just a three-week sprint, a cohort of people serious about building things, and twelve months of real software projects.
We spent months asking recruiters, engineering managers, and our own alumni what the role actually looks like today — and what we needed to change in the curriculum because of it.
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Three selection sprints. One all-women cohort. A Doctor of Sciences and four veterans in the same batch. A look at who actually showed up to build a career in tech.
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Three weeks. Real challenges. No prior experience required — and no safety net. A close look at how the sprint works and what it is really testing for.
Read →ERR News spoke to project manager Mari-Liis Kitter about kood/Zhytomyr's launch, its 80-student first cohort, a signed MoU with Ukraine's Ministry of Education and Science, and the ambition to expand to Lviv and beyond.
Estonian First Lady Sirje Karis opened kood/Zhytomyr. Every new coder contributes to the cyber defence of the nation — sometimes directly, often indirectly.
Read →The first cohort launched in hybrid format. Average age 24. Ukrainian women who studied in Estonia returned as tutors. Tallinn donated computers and monitors.
Read →Founded with the ethos “no teachers, no classes but 100% coding” — now this disruptive model is going global, with Ukraine and Kenya as the first two countries.
Read →The official ESTDEV announcement: //kood opens admissions in two new countries. Co-founder Taavet Hinrikus on the vision for Ukraine and Kenya.
Read →From Jõhvi to Nairobi and Zhytomyr — Estonian edtech is exporting world-class IT education. 1,100 students trained, over 300 graduates, nearly two-thirds now in tech.
Read →ESTDEV's 2026 Ukraine call awarded funding to bring the //kood peer-learning platform to Odesa — the next city in Ukraine's growing network.
Read →Baltic Times coverage of the launch. First Lady Sirje Karis: “IT skills are the key to freedom, creativity and resilience.”
Read →The broader story of Estonia's development work in the Zhytomyr region — and how //kood fits into a long-term commitment to sustainable, skills-based recovery.
Read →First cohort: 100 students in a hybrid format adapted to wartime conditions. //kood was founded in Estonia in 2021 and trains full-stack software developers.
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