This year kick starts the European Year of Skills, adopted by the European Commission following the announcement by President Ursula von der Leyen in her 2022 State of the Union speech. The initiative focuses on the green and digital transitions and how they are opening new opportunities for people and the EU economy.
The digital transition must be fair and just. But unfortunately, more than three-quarters of EU companies need help finding workers with the necessary skills. Therefore, AI-PRIMS is building a network of open-access pilots that engages academic and industrial actors, using our built-in simulation services to empower demonstration, training, certification, and development activities.
Open-access network to empower people
At AI-PRISM, we will create a sustainable network of open-access pilots for new users, students, and developers to experiment and be certified. This network will be called the AI-PRISM Alliance network and include invitations and registration of European robotic technology developers and consumers. The successful deployment of a platform within the alliance will represent a benchmark for future developments of similar and widespread implementations of AI applications for robotics in Europe.
Furthermore, the AI-PRISM Alliance Network will provide training to enable its members to create business opportunities through the AI-PRISM Network Suite. Using this network, we will ensure that all the manufacturing value chains have the key competencies to make the most of our human-centred and AI-based ecosystem of innovation with cobots.
Training on technical and non-technical skills
Through our networks, we aim to provide training material to enable workers to quickly and easily develop the capability to adapt to new processes and demands when working with industrial robots specifically, as this support is not currently available. The goal is to streamline the transfer of technical knowledge to workers and support their upskilling to basic digital capabilities, human-robot operational upgrades, and a general understanding of AI.
Our training offers technical and non-technical skills, given that human-robot interactions need to be seamless and intuitive for effective performance. Non-technical skills training techniques used to enhance human-human interactions.
Human diversity at the core of training material
According to statistics from the European Union, there is also a low representation of women in tech-related professions and studies, with only 1 in 6 IT specialists and 1 in 3 STEM graduates being women. Therefore, at AI-PRISM, a key challenge is to adequately address individual differences and requirements so that the training promotes workforce inclusivity across gender, culture, ability, age, etc.
To this end, we will capture social and cultural data to design our material so that it is tailored / tailorable for different workforce needs. The material will be designed taking into account non-specialised profiles with support from social innovation, tailored to local languages, and facilitated as part of the pilot demonstration and in catalogues.
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