IBM
IBM RAG and Agentic AI Professional Certificate is a free-to-learn advanced course from IBM, online. Some parts are paid. It ends with a professional certificate.
Suits Python developers who know the basics of web development and AI and want hands-on practice with current agent frameworks. IBM rates it advanced, and Coursera estimates 8 weeks at 3 hours a week. You can audit the course materials free. The main caveat is that the certificate route uses a Coursera subscription and the page shows no price. A free alternative is the AI Agents Course from Hugging Face Learn.
IBM's 10-course Professional Certificate on Coursera for developers building with LangChain and LangGraph. It covers prompt templates, function calling, vector stores and RAG pipelines, multimodal AI, and autonomous multi-agent systems with CrewAI, AG2, BeeAI and Model Context Protocol, ending with a capstone project.
More courses on AI agents and agentic AI and on prompt engineering.
Level: advanced (as stated by the provider). Delivery: online, self-paced.
Working knowledge of Python programming and a fundamental knowledge of web development and AI concepts
Free to learn. Some parts paid. Course materials can be audited free; the certificate route uses a Coursera subscription; price not shown on the page; financial aid available.
Certificate: professional certificate. IBM Professional Certificate (Coursera).
IBM, based in the US, offers this course worldwide, so learners in Ireland join the same course as everyone else. Details last confirmed on 26 Oct 2026.
No Irish scheme on our funding list (Springboard+, Skillnet Ireland, HEA Micro-Credential Learner Fee Subsidy 2026 and others) covers its cost.
Irish courses for developers and engineers on a shared topic: ISTQB Certified Tester: Testing with Generative AI (Tech Industry Alliance Skillnet).
See also: funded AI training in Ireland, AI courses for developers and engineers.
Free to learn. Some parts paid.
Yes: professional certificate. The provider calls it "IBM Professional Certificate (Coursera)".
It's an advanced course. Prerequisites: Working knowledge of Python programming and a fundamental knowledge of web development and AI concepts.
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