Training and teaching
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A digital strategy for schools: what the Irish model teaches
The debate on AI literacy at school benefits from comparison with national experiences that are already structured. Ireland offers a telling case: a multi-year digital strategy for schools, backed by €200 million in capital funding, an implementation plan with measurable actions and, most recently, dedicated guidance on the use of AI. We retrace its design,…
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AI literacy: the Digital Omnibus rewrites Article 4 of the AI Act
On 24 July 2026 the Official Journal of the European Union published Regulation (EU) 2026/1744 (EUR-Lex), the Digital Omnibus on AI, in force from 27 July. Among its amendments to the AI Act is the full rewriting of Article 4, the provision on AI literacy: the obligation on providers and deployers is not repealed, but…
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AI Research Scientist: before the applications comes the research, and Europe must decide whether to keep it
Every Artificial Intelligence application we use today was born, years ago, in a scientific paper. The AI Research Scientist is the profile that generates that knowledge: it formulates theories, conducts reproducible experiments, publishes and submits to peer review. The US repertoires record it precisely; for Europe, which has set itself the target of twenty million…
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AI Machine Learning Engineer: the profile Europe seeks above all others, and the technical debt only it sees
The European analysis of Artificial Intelligence skills needs uses, for one profile alone, the adverb “especially”: the machine learning engineer. This is the figure who turns models into production systems and keeps them alive; the technical literature, from Google to the NeurIPS conference, explains why it is so difficult, and so sought after. If one…
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AI Natural Language Processing Engineer: language has become the interface of AI, and someone is needed who can handle it
Ever since we have been talking to machines, language has become the universal interface of Artificial Intelligence, and those who can build systems that understand and generate language have joined the European list of the most needed profiles. But language carries culture, variety and inequality with it: the craft of the AI Natural Language Processing…
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AI Data Scientist: the Washington figures, the European demand and the method that makes the difference
It is the only Artificial Intelligence craft that US federal statistics record as a standalone occupation: a median pay of 112,590 dollars and a projected growth of thirty-four per cent over the decade. And in Europe? The needs analysis puts it at the top of the most sought-after roles. But behind the most overused title…
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AI Security Specialist: attacks that resemble no other, and those who must stop them
Prompt injection, data poisoning, model evasion: Artificial Intelligence systems have an attack surface of their own, so specific that it has earned dedicated taxonomies from NIST, the OWASP project and MITRE. Guarding it is the craft of the AI Security Specialist, in a European market where security specialists are already in short supply, even before…
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AI Deep Learning Engineer: the craft of neural networks, between theoretical foundations and market demand
Deep-learning architectures have rewritten the recent history of Artificial Intelligence, from vision to language; and those who can design, train and bring them into production are among the profiles that the European needs analyses flag as most needed. Inside the craft of the AI Deep Learning Engineer: what it truly requires, beyond enthusiasm for neural…
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AI Data Engineer: data do not move on their own. The profile Europe seeks and struggles to find
Every Artificial Intelligence model lives on the data that someone has collected, cleaned, transformed and served: that someone is the AI Data Engineer, whom the European needs analysis places among the most needed roles and whom businesses, according to the Union’s statistics, genuinely struggle to find. Inside a craft of architectures, data pipelines and a…
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AI Prompt Engineer: the urgency certified by Europe and a craft that is not what it seems
The European analysis of Artificial Intelligence skills needs says it plainly: the prompt engineer is an emerging role that requires urgent attention, and the training on offer is almost non-existent. Yet few crafts are so misunderstood: it is not about chatting with machines, but about designing, validating and maintaining the instructions, context and controls of…