Empowering Schools to Navigate the AI Era.

Fostering ethical, secure, and pedagogical Artificial Intelligence literacy in European secondary schools.

The SAIL challenge

Increase AI Literacy

Enable informed, ethical, and socially inclusive AI usage among high school teachers and students.

Develop Training
Materials

Create structured AI lesson plans tailored to secondary schools, integrating ethical challenges and opportunities.

Pilot Education Strategies

Test AI education approaches across different schools to ensure broad applicability.

Promote Cross-Sector Collaboration

Connect secondary, vocational, and higher education institutions for knowledge exchange.

Advocate for Policy Adoption

Influence AI literacy policy at local, national, and European levels.

The benefits

Teachers

We empower educators to move past the fear of AI and use it as a collaborative teaching partner, ensuring students develop critical thinking rather than just over-relying on technology.

 

  • Master AI integration in learning: gain practical, cross-curricular strategies to effectively incorporate AI into your daily lessons.
  • Navigate ethics: deepen your understanding of the ethical and societal implications of AI, transforming complex topics into accessible classroom discussions.
  • Prevent “cognitive atrophy”: learn how to design assignments where AI acts as a brainstorming and supportive tool, keeping human agency at the center.
  • Share best practices: connect with a European network of educators to exchange innovative teaching methods.
  • Free access to innovative tools: the SAIL Manual (Pedagogical Toolkit) and targeted European Teacher Training frameworks.

Students

Students are already using AI, but we help them look inside the “Black Box”. We turn passive consumers into active, responsible digital citizens who understand the technology shaping their future.

 

  • Spot misinformation: build strong media literacy skills to confidently identify AI-generated fake news, deepfakes, and biased information.
  • Understand the “Black Box”: bridge the gap between simply using an AI tool and actually understanding how AI algorithms make decisions.
  • Protect democracy: explore how AI impacts society, human rights, and democratic processes, fostering a strong sense of digital ethics.
  • Develop future-proof skills: learn to prompt, interact, and co-create with AI safely, preparing for the universities and workplaces of tomorrow.
  • Free resources and spaces: Interactive Classroom Activities, Media Literacy Workshops, and International eTwinning Exchanges.

Schools

We provide school leaders and institutions with the structured guidance they need to safely adopt AI, closing the resource gap and aligning local education with European standards.

 

  • Structured AI frameworks: adopt clear, step-by-step institutional strategies to manage AI usage securely and effectively across all classes.
  • EU alignment: ensure your school’s digital transformation is perfectly aligned with the latest European Union priorities and educational guidelines.
  • Resource readiness: overcome guidance gaps with comprehensive, ready-to-use materials that require no extra budget to implement.
  • A safer ecosystem: establish clear boundaries for data privacy and digital well-being for both staff and students.
  • Free access to ready-to-use resources: Strategic AI Adoption Guidelines, Needs Assessment Reports, and European Policy Recommendations.

Pilots

Testing SAIL in real classrooms

Our resources won’t be just theory. We will test our activities directly with teachers and over 300 students aged 15-18 across 4 countries in Europe. Discover the schools that are already helping us shape a safe and creative AI learning experience.

Istituto Magistrale Statale Giordano Bruno
Istituto Magistrale Statale Giordano Bruno
Rome-based high school offering Human Sciences, Languages, Science & Music. Home of Radio GB, Cambridge & ESABAC programs, within a dynamic academic community.
School Center Slovenske Konjice-Zreče
School Center Slovenske Konjice-Zreče
School Center Slovenske Konjice-Zreče provides quality general, vocational and adult education, lifelong learning and SME support through interdisciplinary, digitally enriched programs.
Institut de Vic
Institut de Vic
Institut de Vic (IVic) is a public VET centre in Vic, Barcelona. It offers EQF 3 to 5 programmes in 13 professional sectors.
Köyceğiz Fen Lisesi
Köyceğiz Fen Lisesi
We are a public science high school in the town of Mugla, Turkey. Admission to school is via a special exam and only the students who can get certain score is able to enrol the school. Besides, we are a boardingschool and the students come from different regions. The main subjects are Turkish, English, German, Maths, Science and Technology, Social Sciences, Music, Art,

Partners

A multidisciplinary European consortium

The SAIL project is driven by a unique network of technology experts, media professionals, and educational institutions. By combining rigorous research, digital innovation, and direct school engagement, we ensure that our pedagogical tools are scientifically sound and immediately applicable in everyday teaching.

Associazione stampa romana

ASR is the regional branch of the Italian National Federation of Journalists, representing 3,000+ journalists and promoting press freedom, ethics and accredited training.

Deep Blue

Deep Blue is a Human Factors consultancy specialising in human-centric solutions. With extensive EU project experience, it delivers training and consulting to innovate the education and technology sectors.

Oneoff-tech

Oneoff-tech is a Berlin-based company specialising in AI-enabled knowledge management, semantic technologies, and digital transformation for complex organisations.