[ekovarski]

Completed the required badges and reached out to IBM, the program is /only/ available within the US at the moment.

They are apparently working to include other countries though I also heard from other channels that even the US is being looked at whether to continue this offering.

So if your in the US and interested, move on it quickly. These badges aren't difficult to obtain but you do need to use Coursera for the last one, the Mainframe Practitioner, so unless you can activate the free 7 day trial there is some cost associated with it.