SkillAIbility

SkillAIbility: Co-designing human-centric pathways for future skills in manufacturing through augmented, empowered, inclusive, and symbiotic complementarities between AI, automation, and human tasks.

The objective of the project is to create human-centric, empowering pathways to future skills and jobs for all, towards an inclusive, resilient, and equality-based twin transition in the manufacturing industry. This will be achieved by co-designing education, training and relevant AI tools with workers, especially vulnerable groups, using empowering, inclusive, and symbiotic complementarities between AI, automation, and humans.

There are 14 partners from 9 European countries, in a consortium representative of the research, industry, and societal stakeholders needed for success in this area. The overall funding is about 3 million euros. In this project the RuG team will play a leading role in the roadmapping and the creation of future scenarios for augmentation, empowerment, and symbiosis between humans and AI/automation technologies, in the design of human technologies for symbiotic work organisation contexts, and in the use cases through co-design principles for inclusive AI/automation skills, tasks, and jobs in manufacturing. The project duration is three years.

The project aims to produce significant impacts in multiple directions: (i) Through regulator sandboxes and prestandardisation contributions; (ii) in policy making; (iii) via international, national and regional synergies; (iv) use cases testing and demonstrating empowerment, augmentation, inclusivity, symbiosis between humans and AI-enabled technology solutions.