With Ukraine’s booming IT industry reaching into all corners of the nation for skilled workers, President Zelenskiy inaugurated the latest

With Ukraine’s booming IT industry reaching into all corners of the nation for skilled workers, President Zelenskiy inaugurated the latest Beetroot Academy in the new Mariupol Startup Development Center. This Swedish and American-funded NGO is doubling its schools to 22 cities by the end of next year. Offering $500, 4-month courses to train Ukrainians with math and engineering skills to work for Western outsourcing companies, Beetroot also is more than doubling its student body this year, to 1,300, says Andreas Flodström, founding CEO. Andriy Kolodiuk, a leading Ukrainian IT venture capital investor, said: “New schools training students for real jobs will be very successful.”