🌍 Call for Participation

Join the Consortium of the Skillman GenAI Academy

A European Flagship Initiative for Advanced Digital Skills in Generative AI

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The Skillman GenAI Academy (SGA) is a large-scale European project to be submitted under the Digital Europe Programme’s DIGITAL-2025-SKILLS-08-GENAI-ACADEMY-STEP call. The Academy aims to establish a transnational digital skills academy dedicated to Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) — one of the most transformative technologies of our time.

By embedding GenAI expertise into formal education, professional training, and public sector innovation, the Academy will equip learners and professionals across Europe with future-ready competences, support inclusion, and strengthen Europe’s digital autonomy.

🎯 What We Aim to Achieve

The Skillman GenAI Academy will:

• Develop and deliver GenAI curricula and training programmes (EQF 3–7), co-designed with industry

• Issue EBSI-ready digital micro-credentials, aligned with the European Learning Model (ELM), EQF and ESCO

• Offer hands-on learning through internships, bootcamps, and cross-border mobility

• Promote digital inclusion, gender equality, and outreach to underrepresented communities

• Collaborate with AI Factories, EDIHs, research institutions, and public agencies

• Contribute to policy innovation, monitoring of KPIs, and the Digital Decade strategy

🤝 Who We Are Looking For

To meet the strategic goals of the Academy and ensure a successful submission, we are forming a diverse and high-performing consortium from different eligible countries.

We invite applications from public and private organisations with expertise in at least one of the following areas:

🎓 Academic Institutions

-Universities and polytechnic institutes with GenAI, data science, or STEM programmes
-Providers of Bachelor, Master, or Doctoral degrees in AI-related disciplines

🧠 Research Organisations

-AI labs and research centres working on large language models, foundation models, HPC, or inference systems
-Institutions affiliated with EuroHPC, supercomputing clusters, or AI Factories

🏭 Industry & SMEs

-Businesses applying GenAI across sectors (manufacturing, health, education, government, creative industries)
-Startups offering AI-powered services or mentoring, internships, or practice-based learning

🧑‍🏫 VET and Training Providers

-Centres offering vocational and professional development training in digital/AI fields
-Organisations developing modular short-term or workplace-based programmes (EQF 3–5)

🏛 Public Sector Stakeholders

-National and local authorities developing AI strategies, policies, or public sector innovation pilots
-Regional digital development agencies and smart city actors

♿️ NGOs and Inclusion-Focused Entities

-Organisations supporting gender equality, disadvantaged youth, migrants, or persons with disabilities
-Foundations advancing inclusive access to digital and AI skills

🌐 Infrastructure Enablers

-Digital Innovation Hubs (EDIHs), AI Factories, Technology Parks, accelerators
-Platforms facilitating HPC testing, piloting, and scaling of GenAI applications

✅ Benefits of Joining

Joining the Skillman GenAI Academy offers your organisation a unique opportunity to co-lead one of Europe’s most forward-looking initiatives in digital skills development. As part of a cross-sectoral consortium, you will help shape an EU-level strategy for Generative AI education that aligns with the Digital Decade 2030 goals and drives long-term impact across academia, industry, and the public sector. Your institution will collaborate with universities, research centres, SMEs, public bodies, and NGOs to co-develop and pilot cutting-edge curricula and micro-credentials, fully aligned with European frameworks such as EQF, ESCO, and EBSI. This engagement will not only strengthen your institutional capacity but also enhance your visibility in EU digital policy arenas—through participation in high-level roundtables, stakeholder events, and platforms like the Digital Skills and Jobs Platform. Furthermore, you will expand your transnational partnerships, opening new pathways for future collaboration under Horizon Europe, Erasmus+, and other EU programmes focused on digital transformation and AI-driven innovation.