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ARISA Newsletter: June 2025
In this issue, we share key updates, highlights, and events from the past months across the ARISA community. Stay informed and inspired by the progress we’re making together.
- ARISA Academy: Master the basics of AI and shape the future of your career. The ARISA Academy offers a free, online training programme designed for students, professionals, and educators. With seven expert-led courses, the Academy provides a structured learning path covering AI fundamentals, machine learning, cybersecurity, and more. Whether you’re looking to upskill, reskill, or enhance your curriculum, the ARISA Academy has something for you.
- AI Career Guidance: whether you’re a recent graduate, exploring a career change, or an experienced professional, you’ll find valuable tools and insights: from expert tips on standing out in the recruitment process to a mapping of job portals and first-hand advice from AI professionals.
- AI Talent Network by ARISA: this LinkedIn group is designed to connect ARISA Academy alumni and AI professionals with employers and recruiters, fostering career opportunities in the AI sector.
INTERESTING READS
| This article explores Cedefop’s AI Skills survey, highlighting trends and insights into the demand for AI skills in today’s labour market. 🔹Which jobs will be most affected by the AI revolution? 🔹What are the key challenges facing the workforce? 🔹How big are the geographical, gender and age gaps in the AI field? |
UPDATES CORNER
ARISA Partners meeting in Ljubljana
On 22–23 May, ARISA Partners met in Ljubljana, Slovenia, for a key consortium meeting as the ARISA project enters its final year.
Discussions focused on expanding impact across Europe, including:
✅ Piloting AI learning programmes
✅ Boosting Train-the-Trainer uptake
✅ Advancing the ARISA Academy
✅ Updating the AI Skills Strategy
✅ Planning future events and workshops.
MORE FREE RESOURCES
- AI Skills Strategy for Europe (2024 update)
ARISA launched the AI Skills Strategy for Europe to tackle key challenges, drawing on the AI Skills Needs Analysis, best practices, and stakeholder input. Updated annually (last in December 2024), the Strategy aims to support innovative, inclusive, and ethical AI education and training across Europe, forming a strong foundation for the continent’s AI future. - Micro-credentials and recognition system
This document aims to facilitate and test the application of micro-credentials to the certification of the ARISA Learning Programmes for facilitating their recognition both in the labour market and for further studies. - Design the train-the-trainers programme
This programme supports the implementation of ARISA learning resources by equipping trainers with the information needed to:facilitate reskilling and upskilling, and to help educators and organisations run new learning programmes based on ARISA curricula.
Join the AI Skills Alliance as an Associated Partner
The AI Skills Alliance keeps expanding! We already have 36 Associated Partners!
By becoming an ARISA Associated Partner, your organisation gains access to a vibrant network that fosters knowledge exchange, collaboration, and the collective pursuit of excellence in AI skills development. We offer you the flexibility to choose where to contribute so it aligns better with your organisation’s goals.
Sounds interesting? Read more about the Associated Partnership opportunity & apply.
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Other interesting news
EU project ARISA to fast-track the AI upskilling and reskilling in Europe
19 January 2023
Press Release • Twenty leading organisations drive the ARISA project to accelerate AI upskilling and reskilling.
AI Skills Strategy for Europe Launch: Watch the Highlights
31 May 2024
The ARISA project proposes a new strategy to answer the increasing demand for AI skills and professionals in the EU. Watch the highlights of our launch event on 28 May 2024.
Meeting the AI Act: Building the ecosystem of European AI literacy through cross-national policy engagement and cooperation
20 April 2026
The European Union’s Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act) of 2024 marks a shift from principle to practice in setting new standards for AI governance. The transition, however, from regulation to operational reality remains challenging, particularly in the case of AI literacy. Indeed, the AI Act sets expectations for a company’s staff to have a “sufficient level of AI literacy” in article 4. The term “sufficient level” is quite broad and may benefit from clearer guidance, as it can be challenging for many organisations - particularly those with limited resources, such as SMEs and start-ups - to interpret and apply effectively. During Artificial Intelligence Skills Alliance’s (ARISA) Final Conference on 26 March 2026, the panel discussion “From AI literacy to AI deployment: operationalising the AI Act across Europe” delved deeper into how policymakers may make the abstract concrete.
