StrategEast IT HUB job and education center successfully operates in Georgia, Moldova, and Azerbaijan. In December 2021 it also opened its doors to Ukrainian students from the south of Zaporizhzhia and Donetsk regions.

StrategEast IT HUB provides skills, tools, and knowledge to acquire the most demanded IT specializations and get a highly-paid job in global tech companies upon graduation without leaving their home regions.

Due to the full-fledged war Russia launched against Ukraine on February 24, 2022, StrategEast made a decision to adapt the IT HUB to the current needs of Ukrainians.

Thus, the vulnerable population of internally displaced persons from Kharkiv, Chernihiv, Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, Sumy, Mykolaiv, Kherson, and Kyiv regions that were forced to flee from the war zones were invited to submit their candidacy. 

StrategEast received more than 1000 applications over the span of 10 days. 150 prospective candidates have been qualified for the next stage and enrolled in the course of IT and Business Analysis Fundamentals. Upon completion of the Fundamentals course, all the candidates will be able to pass the assessment to evaluate their digital literacy. 25 candidates with the highest scores will be invited to undertake training in their selected IT specialties (Business Analysis, Java, ASP.Net, Quality Assurance, Front End).

The IT HUB is supported by the project “Fostering economic participation of vulnerable groups including IDPs in the Sea of Azov region” of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) on behalf of the German Government.