PEPAICO
Main Features
To reach this overall goal, the project will achieve the following objectives:
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Characterise the advantages, drawbacks, opportunities and threats brought by each type of AI technology on employability, career and business;
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Develop a modular methodology blending in-person teaching and distance learning to train students, professionals and entrepreneurs on AI along with tools to monitor and assess the trainees’ progress;
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Develop a face-to-face training course on AI combining theoretical knowledge, practical skills, and gamification;
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Construct a distance learning platform on artificial made up of adapted as well as specifically developed online contents and a micro-learning application;
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Promote a generation of graduates, professionals and entrepreneurs well-aware of and well trained on AI with the message than well tackled, AI can lead to employability improvement, career boosting and business opportunities.
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Spanning over three years, PEPAICO is made up of four intellectual output (IO) activities, one activity package (AP) dedicated to the project management, and one AP for the dissemination of the project results.
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PR1 – Impacts of artificial intelligence on employability, career, and business will set the ground for the educational methodology to be adopted by PEPAICO. Its purpose is to investigate the effect of AI on each industrial sector and perpendicularly on each job position.
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PR2 – Pedagogical methodology has as its goal to specify the modular blended training programme on artificial intelligence in terms of content as well as format.
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PR3 – Learning content development will develop the core training content based on the survey, need analysis, and intended learning content specified by PR2. The developed content will be rolled out in face-to-face teaching and training pilot sessions.
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PR4 – Distance learning platform and micro-learning application” will design, develop and deploy the distance learning on artificial intelligence through four components:
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The online teaching modules resulting from adaptation of the modules developed by PR3 and complemented with additional modules if necessary;
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The micro-learning application whose goal is to enhance the training process and create a collaborative network of trainees on AI
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The library of examples of use of AI to enhance careers or businesses to illustrate.
The PEPAICO consortium is made up of three higher-education institutions - one business school, one technological university and one general university - and two technology transfer organisations.
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Institut de préparation à l’administration et à la gestion (IPAG), France
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Innogate to Europe (Innogate), technology transfer company, Spain
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Not A Bad Idea Oy (NABI), entrepreneurial learning and entrepreneurship education company, Finland
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Lappeenrannan–Lahden teknillinen yliopisto (LUT), university, Finland
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Universidad Internacional de La Rioja (UNIR), university, Spain
PEPAICO had been funded by the Erasmus+ programme.
Erasmus+ is the EU’s programme to support education, training, youth and sport in Europe. The programme involves the 27 EU Member States and 6 non-EU associated countries. Other countries across the world may also participate in certain parts of the programme.
The objective of “Erasmus+” is to promote transnational learning mobility and cooperation as a means of improving quality and excellence, inclusion and equity, and creativity and innovation in the fields of education, professional education, youth and sport.ort
The programme's objective is pursued through three key actions:
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Key action 1: Learning mobility of individuals
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Key action 2: Cooperation among organisations and institutions
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Key action 3: Support to policy development and cooperation
Other activities include “Jean Monnet” actions, which support teaching, learning, research and debates on European integration matters, e.g. on the EU’s future challenges and opportunities.