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Level 0 · Prerequisite

Recommended prior education — this level holds no programmes at all. It is highly recommended to hold an HND (Higher National Diploma) and/or a Bachelor's degree, or equivalent knowledge, before starting a Cortex programme. It is a recommendation only: it is never enforced, and there is nothing to enrol in here.

Recommended prior education

It is highly recommended to hold an HND and/or a Bachelor's degree — or equivalent knowledge gained on the job or self-taught. Neither is checked or required at enrolment; they simply describe the level of study our programmes are pitched at.

Bachelor's degree
A Bachelor's degree is the standard undergraduate qualification, typically three to four years of full-time university study in a single field. We recommend it because our programmes assume you are comfortable reading technical material, working independently to a deadline, and carrying an argument from evidence to conclusion. Read more
HND — Higher National Diploma
A Higher National Diploma is a two-year, work-focused higher education qualification that sits below a full Bachelor's degree and is widely accepted as equivalent to its first two years. We recommend it because it delivers exactly the hands-on, practice-first grounding our taught phases and labs build on. Read more
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Level 1 · Enrolled

The active-student level — held by every enrolled student who has not yet finished a first programme, and the home of every bootcamp: the short, practical on-ramps you can enrol in right away.

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New here, or filling a gap? Every bootcamp on this level is a short, practical on-ramp — start with one.

Bootcamp · one day, zero to practical (Level 1)

Claude in One Day

One day, 14 units, no prerequisites — go from never having used AI to using Claude Chat, Cowork and Code for real work by tonight. 85% hands-on. No programming, no terminal experience assumed.

Path type: Artificial Intelligence

Requirements: Open entry

Language: English · Español

Enrollment: €4.95

Next step: Claude for Everyday Professionals

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Bootcamp · beginner on-ramp (Level 1)

Claude for Everyday Professionals

A 3-week, no-code introduction to Claude for non-technical professionals — 15 lessons building real confidence with Claude before going further.

Path type: Artificial Intelligence

Requirements: Open entry

Length: ~1 month

Language: English · Español

Enrollment: €4.95

Next step: Claude & AI Mastery Bootcamp

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Bootcamp · available at Level 1

Claude & AI Mastery Bootcamp

A 20-day intensive on Claude & applied AI — the fast on-ramp for the AI programmes, alongside the full degree track.

Path type: Artificial Intelligence

Requirements: Open entry

Length: ~1 month

Language: English · Español

Enrollment: €4.95

For the AI family: MSc Applied AI Systems · Advanced AI

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Bootcamp · shared prerequisite (Level 1)

Essential & Fundamental Mathematics

A short, from-scratch maths on-ramp — 14 units of essential and fundamental mathematics. Recommended, never enforced: the shared foundation the harder programmes (cryptography, AI, networking and more) build on.

Path type: Mathematics

Requirements: Open entry

Length: ~1 month

Language: English · Español

Enrollment: €4.95

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Bootcamp · universal prerequisite (Level 1)

Cognitive Cortex

How to operate your own mind — 20 units on learning and memory, reading, notes, attention, planning, motivation, decisions and sleep. Every technique carries an explicit evidence tier, so the ones that do not hold up are taught as such. You finish holding five weeks of your own tracking data.

Path type: cognitive science

Requirements: Open entry

Length: ~1 month

Language: English · Español

Enrollment: €4.95

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Bootcamp · cluster operation (Level 1)

Kubernetes Essentials

Operate a real Kubernetes cluster — 12 units from Pods and Deployments through config, storage, scheduling and probes to a deployed API behind Ingress. A local kind cluster: no cloud account, no managed service.

Path type: Automation

Requirements: Open entry

Length: ~1 month

Language: English · Español

Enrollment: €4.95

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Bootcamp · the substrate (Level 1)

Infrastructure Substrate

What a platform actually runs on — 14 units on KVM/QEMU virtualization, baremetal and netboot, disks, LVM and RAID, storage models, declarative infrastructure with OpenTofu, and corosync/pacemaker clustering with real fencing, replication and disaster recovery. Nested KVM on your own machine.

Path type: Automation

Requirements: Open entry

Length: ~1 month

Language: English · Español

Enrollment: €4.95

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Bootcamp · ML pipelines (Level 1)

ML Pipelines & Feature Stores

Everything upstream of a served model — 12 units on reproducible training, data and model versioning, Airflow orchestration with correct backfill, feature stores and point-in-time joins, MLflow tracking, and the model registry. Local MLflow and Airflow: no cloud account, no GPU.

Path type: Artificial Intelligence

Requirements: Open entry

Length: ~1 month

Language: English · Español

Enrollment: €4.95

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Bootcamp · on-ramp to the Investing MSc (Level 1)

Investing Essentials

The smallest set of honest checks to run before putting money anywhere — 12 units through the three financial statements, five ratios that survive contact with reality, a 15-minute buy/no-buy pass and rough valuation. Every figure is computed on a synthetic company universe: nothing here is advice about a real security.

Path type: Finance

Requirements: Open entry

Length: ~1 month

Language: English · Español

Enrollment: €4.95

On-ramp to Fundamental Analysis & Value Investing: Fundamental Analysis & Value Investing

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Bootcamp · practical on-ramp (Level 1)

TypeScript & Agents

Path type: Software

Requirements: Open entry

Length: ~1 month

Language: English · Español

Enrollment: €4.95

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Bootcamp · practical on-ramp (Level 1)

Cloudflare Essentials

The edge/proxy mental model, DNS, API tokens, cloudflared tunnels & Zero Trust, WAF, caching, and Workers/Pages/R2 — the Cloudflare skills you actually reach for.

Path type: Networking

Requirements: Open entry

Length: ~1 month

Language: English · Español

Enrollment: €4.95

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Bootcamp · practical on-ramp (Level 1)

Containers + REST APIs

Containers (Podman/Docker) from first principles up through building, containerizing, and calling a real REST API.

Path type: Automation

Requirements: Open entry

Length: ~1 month

Language: English · Español

Enrollment: €4.95

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Bootcamp · practical on-ramp (Level 1)

SQLite + Python

SQLite and Python's sqlite3 — from "what is a database file" to a small CLI app with keys, joins, indexes, and transactions.

Path type: Data & Databases

Requirements: Open entry

Length: ~1 month

Language: English · Español

Enrollment: €4.95

Recommended for: Databases & Data Systems

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Bootcamp · practical on-ramp (Level 1)

Ansible Basics

The agentless/idempotent model, inventory, playbooks, roles, Vault and running against real nodes — practical Ansible.

Path type: Automation

Requirements: Open entry

Length: ~1 month

Language: English · Español

Enrollment: €4.95

Recommended for: Automation

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Bootcamp · practical on-ramp (Level 1)

Terminal Power-Tools

A productive terminal: tmux, fish, emacs, xmonad and the dotfiles that glue all four together — with no keybinding clashes.

Path type: Software

Requirements: Open entry

Length: ~1 month

Language: English · Español

Enrollment: €4.95

Recommended for: Software Craftsmanship & Engineering Practice

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Bootcamp · practical on-ramp (Level 1)

Raspberry Pi Starter

From an unopened box to an always-on Pi project — flash the OS, boot, SSH in, meet the GPIO header, and blink your first LED with gpiozero.

Path type: Robotics

Requirements: Open entry

Length: ~1 month

Language: English · Español

Enrollment: €4.95

Recommended for: Robotics & Embedded Systems (Raspberry Pi)

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Bootcamp · practical on-ramp (Level 1)

Git & GitHub

The version-control mental model, branching and merging, real conflict resolution, remotes and GitHub, pull requests, rebase, and undoing things safely.

Path type: Software

Requirements: Open entry

Length: ~1 month

Language: English · Español

Enrollment: €4.95

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Bootcamp · practical on-ramp (Level 1)

Linux CLI Essentials

The shell and filesystem, navigation, text tools, pipes and filters, permissions, processes, package management, and a first bash script.

Path type: Software

Requirements: Open entry

Length: ~1 month

Language: English · Español

Enrollment: €4.95

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Bootcamp · practical on-ramp (Level 1)

SSH, Keys & Secrets

The SSH client/server model, key auth, the ssh-agent, ~/.ssh/config and bastions, tunnels, hardening sshd, and secrets hygiene.

Path type: Security

Requirements: Open entry

Length: 2 weeks

Language: English · Español

Enrollment: €4.95

Recommended for: Computer Security

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Bootcamp · practical on-ramp (Level 1)

TLS, PKI & GPG

Applied cryptography in practice — hashing and signatures, PKI and X.509, the TLS handshake, openssl, your own tiny CA, and GPG signing.

Path type: Security

Requirements: Open entry

Length: ~1 month

Language: English · Español

Enrollment: €4.95

Recommended for: Cryptography

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Bootcamp · practical on-ramp (Level 1)

CI/CD with GitHub Actions

CI/CD on GitHub Actions — workflow anatomy, triggers, matrix builds, caching and artifacts, secrets, reusable workflows, and deploy-on-tag.

Path type: Automation

Requirements: Open entry

Length: ~1 month

Language: English · Español

Enrollment: €4.95

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Bootcamp · practical on-ramp (Level 1)

Networking Essentials

Practical TCP/IP — the layers, IP addressing and CIDR, ARP, routing, DNS, TCP vs UDP, HTTP(S) on the wire, NAT and firewalls, and a troubleshooting methodology.

Path type: Networking

Requirements: Open entry

Length: ~1 month

Language: English · Español

Enrollment: €4.95

Recommended for: Networking

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Level 2 · M.Sc

Level 3 · Ph.D

Level 4 · PD·Fellow

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    Level 4 · PD·Fellow

    PD·Fellow Networking

    Admission / acceptance: Not yet admitting — the post-doctoral stages of this discipline have not opened.

    Path type: Networking

    Requirements: Ph.D Networking

    Length: ~½ year

    Language: English · Español

    Cortex Credits: 18 CC

    Enrollment: €9.95

    Networking from first principles to research depth — protocols, routing, transport, and network-systems design.

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    Supervised portfolio — 7 modules of 4 weeks, no fixed unit list

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    Level 4 · PD·Fellow

    PD·Fellow Advanced Cryptography

    Admission / acceptance: Not yet admitting — the post-doctoral stages of this discipline have not opened.

    Path type: Cryptography

    Requirements: Ph.D Advanced Cryptography

    Length: ~½ year

    Language: English · Español

    Cortex Credits: 42 CC

    Enrollment: €19.95

    Doctoral cryptography — security proofs, advanced protocols, and an original verified contribution to the field.

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    Supervised portfolio — 7 modules of 4 weeks, no fixed unit list

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    Level 4 · PD·Fellow

    PD·Fellow Advanced Python Programming

    Admission / acceptance: Not yet admitting — the post-doctoral stages of this discipline have not opened.

    Path type: Software

    Requirements: Ph.D Advanced Python Programming

    Length: ~½ year

    Language: English · Español

    Cortex Credits: 42 CC

    Enrollment: €19.95

    Doctoral Python engineering — interpreter internals, performance, typing systems, and large-scale architecture.

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    Supervised portfolio — 7 modules of 4 weeks, no fixed unit list

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    Level 4 · PD·Fellow

    PD·Fellow Advanced AI

    Admission / acceptance: Not yet admitting — the post-doctoral stages of this discipline have not opened.

    Path type: Artificial Intelligence

    Requirements: Ph.D Advanced AI

    Length: ~½ year

    Language: English · Español

    Cortex Credits: 42 CC

    Enrollment: €19.95

    Doctoral AI — advanced architectures, training at scale, evaluation science, and an original verified contribution.

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    Supervised portfolio — 7 modules of 4 weeks, no fixed unit list

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    Level 4 · PD·Fellow

    PD·Fellow Advanced Computer Security

    Admission / acceptance: Not yet admitting — the post-doctoral stages of this discipline have not opened.

    Path type: Security

    Requirements: Ph.D Advanced Computer Security

    Length: ~½ year

    Language: English · Español

    Cortex Credits: 42 CC

    Enrollment: €39.90

    Doctoral security research — formal threat modelling, systems security at depth, and frontier defensive research.

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    Supervised portfolio — 7 modules of 4 weeks, no fixed unit list

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    Level 4 · PD·Fellow

    PD·Fellow Advanced Whitehat Defensive Security

    Admission / acceptance: Not yet admitting — the post-doctoral stages of this discipline have not opened.

    Path type: Security

    Requirements: Ph.D Advanced Whitehat Defensive Security

    Length: ~½ year

    Language: English · Español

    Cortex Credits: 42 CC

    Enrollment: €39.90

    Doctoral defensive security — detection science, large-scale telemetry, and original blue-team research.

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    Supervised portfolio — 7 modules of 4 weeks, no fixed unit list

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    PD·Fellow Advanced Offensive Security & Adversary Research

    Admission / acceptance: Not yet admitting — the post-doctoral stages of this discipline have not opened.

    Path type: Security

    Requirements: Ph.D Advanced Offensive Security & Adversary Research

    Length: ~½ year

    Language: English · Español

    Cortex Credits: 42 CC

    Enrollment: €39.90

    Doctoral adversary research, CTF-style and detection-first — exploitation science and countermeasure design.

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    Supervised portfolio — 7 modules of 4 weeks, no fixed unit list

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    Level 4 · PD·Fellow

    PD·Fellow Advanced Ansible Automation & Security

    Admission / acceptance: Not yet admitting — the post-doctoral stages of this discipline have not opened.

    Path type: Automation

    Requirements: Ph.D Advanced Ansible Automation & Security

    Length: ~½ year

    Language: English · Español

    Cortex Credits: 42 CC

    Enrollment: €19.95

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    Supervised portfolio — 7 modules of 4 weeks, no fixed unit list

Level 5 · PD·Habilitation

Level 6 · PD·Chair

Level 7 · Apex · Ω

Level 8 · Top Laureate · ✦

Top Laureate — the Supreme-Honorary level above the Apex, conferred by recognition and marked with the Δ sign. Not a programme; nothing to enrol in.

What this level is · how it's reached

What it is
The Supreme-Honorary crown above the Apex (Ω), marked with the Δ sign — the university's highest standing.
How it's reached
Reach a discipline's Apex first, then be proposed by the academic committee for a sustained body of verified original work — publications, mentorship and field impact.
Format & standing
Honorary and permanent; no fixed length, no taught phases, no fee.

Conferred by recognition — there is no programme to enrol in at this level.

Level 9 · Delta · Δ

Future and upcoming technologies — the yearly keep-current iteration over the Apex (variable, 4 weeks to 3 months), published from the second year onward; the year count shows as N1–N9. Black-diamond gem; not offered by any programme yet.

What this level is · how it's reached

What it is
The keep-current level over the Apex — future and upcoming technologies revisited every year (the yearly Delta update).
How it's reached
Held by a Top Laureate who completes the yearly Delta update at least once; the year count shows as N1–N9.
Format & standing
A variable 4-week to 3-month iteration, published from the second year onward; black-diamond gem, renewed yearly.

Conferred by recognition — there is no programme to enrol in at this level.

Level 10 · Special · Δ¹⁰

Special — the ultimate level: the Delta update completed ten years in a row. Permanent and held for life; not a programme.

What this level is · how it's reached

What it is
The ultimate level — the Delta update completed ten consecutive years.
How it's reached
Awarded automatically once a Delta holder has kept current for ten years in a row.
Format & standing
Permanent and held for life; a lifetime recognition, not a programme.

Conferred by recognition — there is no programme to enrol in at this level.

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How it's conferred

This standing is conferred, not enrolled: it is earned through a sustained body of verified original work — publications, mentorship and field impact — reviewed and proposed by the academic committee. Reach the Apex (Ω) first through a discipline's post-doctoral ladder; the honorary crown then recognises continued excellence beyond it. From there, each further rung follows in strict order: reach Top Laureate before Delta (Δ), and Delta before the Special standing.

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