Project Structure

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.

• 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.

1. IO1 will start by setting up a common terminology since AI terminology and meaning are often vague, multi-semantic and intertwined.

2. The results will be combined with existing studies to provide an in-depth insight of the impacts of AI on employability, career and business.

• 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. To that purpose, the project will:

1. Determine job seekers, employees and entrepreneurs’ needs and expectations regarding training on artificial intelligence by means of quantitative surveys and qualitative semi-structured interviews;

2. Use the results in combination with the outputs of IO1 to determine the AI knowledge and skills to be acquired by each target groups regarding their backgrounds, professional profiles, and personalities;

3. Specify the formats to be used for the educational materials e.g., in-class theoretical teaching, simulations, coaching, gamification, peer-to-peer assessment, self-evaluation, etc.

• PR3 – Learning content development will develop the core training content based on the survey, need analysis, and intended learning content specified by IO2. The developed content will be rolled out in face-to-face teaching and training pilot sessions. To that purpose, IO3 will:

1. Inventory partners’ educational material responding to the specification of IO2;

2. Adapt existing pedagogical material to make it tailored to trainees’ needs;

3. Develop complementary pedagogical material to fully respond to job seekers, employees and entrepreneurs’ expectations;

4. Carry out pilot sessions and refine the content taking into account the collected feedbacks.

• PR4 – Distance learning platform and micro-learning application” will design, develop and deploy the distance learning on artificial intelligence through four components:

1. The online teaching modules resulting from adaptation of the modules developed by IO3 and complemented with additional modules if necessary;

2. The micro-learning application whose goal is to enhance the training process and create a collaborative network of trainees on AI

3. The library of examples of use of AI to enhance careers or businesses to illustrate.

• AP5 – Dissemination and exploitation is aimed at reaching the largest possible audience. For that purpose, it will combine multiplier events and online promotion of the project results, including the development of a website dedicated to the project in particular, and AI in general, and participation in all relevant social networks.

• AP6 – Consortium coordination and project management  will put in place a management system be sufficiently flexible to allow the project face unexpected events while strong enough to ensure the project be implemented according to the work plan.