TEEI Skills Academy
Build the skills for your next career move.
Free access to DataCamp courses and Google Career Certificates. Live classes and workshops to practise in, and a professional mentor to talk it through with.
For women in the Americas · Online · Free
Explore a career and the skills behind it.
What you learn
Learn these, and this is what you can do.
Pick a career, or touch any skill
Six careers · 47 skills
Most of what you learn counts towards more than one of them, so starting is a smaller decision than it looks.
Skills and tracks from the DataCamp career tracks catalogue, 6 September 2026
Courses and certificates
Courses at your own pace, and certificates you can show.
Two routes, both free through Skills Academy. Follow a DataCamp track course by course: a short explanation, an exercise you do yourself in the browser, and whether it worked, straight away. Or work towards a Google Career Certificate through Coursera.
Which cities have the most orders?
Run the query. Then change DESC to ASC and run it again. It groups the rows by city, counts them and sorts by that count.
SELECT city, COUNT(*) AS orders
FROM orders
GROUP BY city
ORDER BY orders DESC;Press Run to see the result.
An exercise from the track, on example data.
Example trackAssociate Data Analyst in SQL
Introduction to SQL·Intermediate SQL·Joining Data in SQL·Data Manipulation in SQL·PostgreSQL Summary Stats and Window Functions·Functions for Manipulating Data in PostgreSQL·Introduction to Statistics·Exploratory Data Analysis in SQL·Data-Driven Decision Making in SQL·Understanding Data Visualization·Data Communication Concepts
Eleven courses and two projects · 39 hours of course time · a Statement of Accomplishment when you finish
Titles and hours from datacamp.com, 6 September 2026 · read live when the page is built
Google Career Certificates
Professional certificates from Google, studied through Coursera. Each is a series of courses with practical assignments. Among those relevant to data and technology:
Which certificates you can enrol in, and how long each takes: from TEEI’s Coursera programme data
One application covers both routes.
Live learning
Learn with experts.
Practise what you are learning.
Join a class to develop a skill, work through a practical task in a workshop, or bring your own project to a clinic. Ask questions, get feedback and build on what you already know.
Courses at your own pace DataCamp and Coursera, any hour you have
An example week, not a timetable.Session titles, times and your time zone: from the live programme at launchTap a dark evening to mark it as one you could give.
Classes
Structured lessons with an instructor, in a group.
Workshops
Work through a practical task, with guidance as you go.
Clinics
Bring your own project, draft or problem for focused feedback.
Expert Q&A
Ask a professional how the work is done and what they would recommend.
Webinars
An expert-led presentation on a subject, with ideas to take into your own work.
Learning data analytics?
Develop the foundations through a course, practise in a workshop and discuss your project with a mentor.
Exploring a new career?
Join an expert session to understand the work, choose relevant learning and talk through your options.
TEEI Language
Practise English for your studies and your work.
Talk about what you are learning, explain a project or practise a conversation for work. Through TEEI Language, you can speak with a conversation partner online or join a small-group conversation.
Choose a time that suits you and a topic you want to practise.
Your conversation partner is a volunteer who speaks English, and also Portuguese. Evenings and Saturdays.
Length or
In her own words
“I’m now able to communicate more effectively in English, which has opened up many opportunities for me.”
Viktoriia Z. · TEEI Language
from her recorded video
Her words, as she speaksMy journey with the English language was quite challenging.
Mentorship
Put your learning to work with a mentor.
Which skills should you focus on?
Your mentor looks at where you are and where you want to work, and helps you choose.
How could you improve your project?
Your mentor reviews what you built and says what a professional would change.
What would help you prepare for an interview?
Your mentor practises the conversation with you and explains how your skills read on a CV.
Get one-to-one guidance from a professional in a relevant field. Review a project, prepare for an interview, improve your CV or decide what to learn next.
Your courses give you something to build on. Your mentor helps you work through the decisions and challenges specific to you.
Mentors come from
Entrepreneurship · Growth and Sales · Marketing · Business and Management · Technology and Digital · Design and Creativity · Personal Development · Finance
Start
Start with what interests you.
Tell us what you would like to learn and what you hope to use it for. Explore courses, live sessions and mentorship around your goals.
- You apply.
- We read your application and reply by email.
- You choose where to start: a course, a live session or a conversation with a mentor.
The Educational Equality Institute runs free education and mentoring programmes. Through Skills Academy, we bring together learning resources, instructors and professional mentors to help you develop and apply your skills.