ICTU
Bringing practical AI skills into vocational education
100+
Teachers & students trained
Weekly
AI tool use by trained teachers
Where it started
Vocational education talks about digitalisation while students graduate without ever using the tools that are reshaping their fields. Teachers want to bring AI into their classrooms but have no time, no training, and no examples that fit their subjects.
What got built
ICTU builds the bridge: hands-on AI and ICT training designed for vocational contexts, taught in the students' own trade language rather than computer-science abstractions. I coordinate the project and teach — curriculum, workshops, and train-the-trainer sessions so the skills stay after the project ends.
What changed
Teachers who had never opened an AI tool now use them weekly in their own teaching. The project's materials are reused across departments, which was the actual goal: capability that outlives the funding period.
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Adoption follows relevance: a welder learns AI through welding documentation, not chatbot demos.
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Teacher confidence is the bottleneck — train the teachers and the students follow.
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EU projects succeed on documentation discipline as much as on ideas.