Project title: AI-Driven Career Guidance: Enhancing Youth Professional Orientation, ERASMUS-YOUTH-2025-CB
Grant Agreement Number: 101246838
Duration: 01.11.2025 – 31.10.2027 (24 months)
Total project funding: 202`424,00 EUR
Project partners: Lead partner State Biotechnological University (SBTU) – Ukraine, RISEBA University of Applied Sciences – Latvia, VsI Zmogiskuju istekliu stebesenos ir pletros biuras – Lithuania, INSTITUT DE HAUTE FORMATION AUX POLITIQUES COMMUNAUTAIRES – Belgium, European Platform for International Cohesion APS – Italy, SIA Ex Novo – Latvia, ACADEMIA DE STUDII ECONOMICE DIN MOLDOVA – Moldova.
Project objective
The objective of the project is to strengthen and support youth professional development in Ukraine and Moldova through innovative technology- and AI-based career guidance solutions. The project aims to develop and implement a unified online platform providing personalised career guidance, skills assessment and career recommendations based on young people’s interests, abilities and goals.
At the same time, the project seeks to strengthen the capacity of youth workers and mentors by providing training and methodological support for career guidance activities, with a particular focus on young people with fewer opportunities and displaced youth. The project promotes cooperation between youth organisations, educational institutions and labour market stakeholders in order to improve youth employability and support informed educational and career choices.
Planned activities
The project will develop and implement an AI-based digital career guidance platform providing personalised career recommendations to young people based on their interests, skills and professional goals. Digital tools, tests and self-assessment instruments will be created to help young people identify their strengths and the most suitable educational and career pathways.
The project also includes the development and implementation of training programmes for youth workers, mentors and career counsellors in order to strengthen their competences in using digital tools and AI solutions for youth professional orientation. Face-to-face and online trainings, workshops and pilot activities will be organised involving young people, including young people with fewer opportunities and displaced youth.
In addition, the project foresees testing, evaluation and further improvement of the developed solutions based on user feedback, as well as strengthening cooperation between youth organisations, educational institutions and labour market representatives. Dissemination and sustainability activities will be implemented at the end of the project to ensure wider use of the developed solutions beyond the project duration.
AI-DCG Erasmus+ Partnership Meets in Pescara for International Mobility on Quality Assurance and Youth Career Guidance
From 5 to 8 May 2026, the European Platform for International Cohesion (EPIC) hosted in Pescara an international mobility within the Erasmus+ Capacity Building project AI-Driven Career Guidance: Enhancing Youth Professional Orientation (AI-DCG). The project aims to support young people in Ukraine and Moldova through the development of innovative AI-based career guidance tools, mentoring systems and digital resources that help youth make informed educational and professional choices. Funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union, AI-DCG brings together partners from Ukraine, Moldova, Latvia, Lithuania, Belgium and Italy to promote innovation, digital transformation and international cooperation in youth professional guidance.
The mobility in Pescara focused on the theme “Quality Assurance Mastery for Project Success” and represented the first in-person meeting of the project consortium, marking an important milestone for strengthening collaboration and reinforcing cooperation among partners.
Hosted at the EPIC offices, the programme included sessions dedicated to quality assurance methodologies and their application to the different AI-DCG work packages. Participants worked together on project monitoring systems, KPI tracking mechanisms, stakeholder communication strategies, risk management approaches and quality assurance procedures aimed at ensuring the effective implementation and long-term impact of project activities. As part of the mobility programme, participants also visited the Career Day organised by the Università degli Studi “Gabriele D’Annunzio” Chieti-Pescara, where they had the opportunity to observe local initiatives and activities supporting youth employability and career orientation.
During the mobility, the consortium also discussed the next implementation phases of the project. Ukrainian and Moldovan partners are currently identifying mentors and professionals who will deliver mentorship and career guidance activities for local young people and students. These mentors will participate in dedicated training activities organised by the partnership in order to strengthen their competences and prepare them to apply innovative career guidance methodologies and AI-based tools developed within the project.
In addition, partners are advancing the development of the AI-DCG online platform foreseen under Work Package 2, which will soon provide digital resources, guidance materials and innovative tools supporting youth professional orientation and employability pathways.
The mobility concluded with strategic planning sessions dedicated to the next stages of the project and reaffirmed the consortium’s commitment to quality, inclusion and sustainable impact in youth career development initiatives.
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