AIJU TECHNOLOGICAL INSTITUTE FOR CHILDREN PRODUCTS AND LEISURE
Ibi, Alicante – España
www.aiju.es
Project coordinator
Who we are
The Technological Institute for Children’s Products and Leisure (AIJU) was established in 1985 as a non-profit organisation to support the children’s products sector and to carry out R&D projects to increase the safety and quality levels of its products. AIJU has extensive experience in training activities and innovative training projects on product safety for industry, consumer organisations and market surveillance authorities at local, regional and national level. Training on product safety legislation is a continuous demand from industry, as it can face significant penalties if its products do not meet safety requirements. In this regard, AIJU has been leading innovative projects on product safety in the field of Vocational Education and Training funded by the Erasmus+ programme since 2020.
UNIVERSITY OF STRASBOURG (UNISTRA)/ CEIPI
Strasbourg- France
www.ceipi.edu
www.unistra.fr
The Center for International Intellectual Property Studies (CEIPI) is a faculty of the University of Strasbourg and a renowned training center in the field of intellectual property. Since its creation in 1963, its mandate has been to train students (LLM and PhD level) and specialists in intellectual property law for various professions, including French and European legal representatives, attorneys specializing in intellectual property, officials of national, European, and international organizations and offices, as well as academics. Moreover, CEIPI regularly organizes conferences on various aspects of EU intellectual property law.
CEIPI is a leader in the study of the interplay between AI and Law. As early as 2018, CEIPI developed advanced training courses on AI and intellectual property law. Since 2019, the Center has offered the first University Diploma on “AI and Intellectual Property.” This comprehensive training program on AI includes a module on ethics, focusing on EU regulations such as the Digital Markets Act, the Digital Services Act, and data- and AI-related legislation (EU AI Act, Proposal for a Directive on Adapting Non-Contractual Civil Liability Rules to Artificial Intelligence, GDPR, EU Data Act).
CEIPI plays a leading role in several international projects on AI and Law, including the DesCartes project between France and Singapore on “Hybrid AI” governance, the Fairomics European Doctoral Network on responsible innovation and AI applied to biotechnologies, an EPO-funded academic research project on measuring the link between fundamental science and its applications in AI, research on the impact of AI on counterfeiting, and the training of young French-German researchers in AI and Law.
CEIPI’s contribution to the project is to ensure that the AI tutor complies with AI ethics principles by raising awareness of AI ethics and ensuring that the EU regulatory framework for AI ethics applies to the AI tutor developed within the project for product safety regulation.
UNIVERSITY OF ALICANTE
Alicante – Spain
www.ua.es
The University of Alicante was founded in 1979 and today it hosts more than 29.000 students, 2.500 of them are international students and offers more than 39 undergraduate and 78 postgraduate pro-grammes: consequently, it is proportionally the fastest growing university in Spain. The University houses 227 research groups in Social and Legal Sciences, Experimental Services, Technological Sciences, Human Sciences, Education and Health Sciences and 17 Research Institutes.
The UA is firmly interlinked with its socio-economic environment, it is considered to be a point of reference for many companies to which it provides technical assistance, student training programs, and continuous programmes and it participates, as a partner or coordinator, in a large number of research cooperation projects from different funding programmes. Its particular field of interest lies within the context of international cooperation and the training of university management staff to contribute for the development of their international status and networks.
The Department of Languages and Computer Systems (DLSI) of the University of Alicante has developed research work in the fields of development of technological tools applied to education that the university itself has been using since 1996 and advising companies and other institutions in the use of active methodologies for instructional design that are supported by own software developments or based on open source tools. Currently, the research focus of the working group that joins this project is the development and use of tools based on Artificial Intelligence to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of teaching methodologies. The main role of the Department of Languages and Computer Systems will be to develop, prototype and implement the software tools that support the learning process created by this project.
SDRUZENI PRO HRACKU A HRU (SHH)
Prague – Czech Republic
www.sdruzenihracky.cz
SHH brings together Czech toys manufacturers, importers, wholesalers and retailers, testing laboratories and other organizations and individuals from the toy industry. As a trade chamber, it primarily defends the interests of domestic manufacturers and retailers.
It is currently struggling with increasingly complex technical standards for toy safety and more demanding requirements from trade inspection, while the import of defective goods from countries outside the EU is insufficiently regulated. The advent of AI in the inspection and registration of toys, as well as the introduction of electronic passports for products, represents an additional burden and cost for manufacturers and retailers. Participation in the AI4ProSa project is an opportunity for SHH to obtain up-to-date qualified information in this area and to verify this knowledge among its members.
STAATLICHE BERUFSSCHULE II BAYREUTH
Bayreuth – Germany
www.kbs-bth.de
The Staatliche Berufsschule II Bayreuth (KBS) is a state-owned part-time vocational business school and complements the on-the-job training offered by our students’ training companies.
KBS currently has about 1400 students and a staff of roughly 50 lecturers with additional part-time lecturers. As part of the German “dual“ vocational training system it provides job-related-theory for different occupations in e. g. wholesale and retail business, industrial management, legal services, office management, banking, insurance business and health services.
Trainees attend vocational school either in blocks of several weeks or one to two days per week. Depending on our students’ previous education their training within the dual system takes two to three years. After having taken their final exams at the Chamber of Industry and Commerce or at Medical Association successfully, our students have the possibility of working as professionals for their companies and taking part in company-based further qualification programmes or attending higher education programmes right up to courses at university.
Product safety is especially important to the training companies in the fields of trade (wholesale, retail and e-commerce) and industrial production. Companies must stick to the European standards and be aware of legal as well as technical requirements. The use of Artificial Intelligence for teaching will be part of the innovative approach at our school. We hope to be able to apply the lessons-learned during the project to others fields in our curriculum.