How to choose an AI course for your Erasmus+ application

Seven questions to ask any provider

Will participants build or set up something they take home? A tool, a workflow or a lesson they made themselves is worth more than a list of apps they watched.
Which tools, and which accounts? Free plans often run out in a hands-on week. Know in advance what participants must pay for.
What English level does it really need? Hands-on work with AI tools is harder at A2 than a lecture.
Who is it for? Teachers, leaders and administrative staff need different things from AI.
Does it cover learners’ data and the law, or only tools?
Is there a day-by-day plan with learning outcomes you can adapt for your application?
Who teaches it, and what have they built with AI themselves?

Data protection and the AI Act

Learners’ data. Any tool that collects learners’ names or answers processes personal data under the GDPR. A good course teaches participants to check what a tool stores, and to prefer tools that store nothing.
Age limits. Many AI services set a minimum age for their users. Teachers can use AI to make materials that learners then open without an account.
The EU AI Act. Some uses of AI in education, such as admissions and assessing learning outcomes, are treated as high-risk. A 2026 amendment (Regulation (EU) 2026/1744) moved the obligations for these high-risk uses to 2 December 2027, so a course should teach the current version.

This guide is not legal advice; your school’s data protection officer has the last word.

Fitting it to your objectives

As with any course, start from your need. “Our teachers should use AI” is not an objective; “our year-7 teachers make their own interactive practice materials” is. Our guide on describing a course in your KA1 application shows the chain from need to course, with a worked example built on an AI course.

Our two AI courses

We teach two six-day AI courses in Split, both written for staff without programming experience:

Build Your Own Classroom Tools with AI: teachers build, test and publish their own quizzes, games and interactive worksheets with AI.
AI Agents for School Leaders and Erasmus+ Coordinators: leaders set up an AI workflow that prepares drafts and reports under their approval, and draft a school AI policy.

Both pages answer the seven questions above: outcomes, a day-by-day plan, the tools and accounts, the English level and the trainer.

Sources

Read on 31 October 2026. Rules and amounts can differ between national agencies and calls; the documents of your own national agency and your grant agreement always prevail. Questions: teacher.training@jantar.hr.

In short

Does an AI course fit an Erasmus+ priority?

Yes: digital transformation is one of the programme’s horizontal priorities, and AI skills for staff fall under it. Link the course to your own objective, as for any course.

Do participants need to know how to code?

Not for our courses. Both are written for teachers and school staff without programming experience, but they are hands-on, so they ask for English at B1 or above.

Will participants need to pay for AI tools?

Often yes. Free plans of most AI services have usage limits that a week of hands-on work reaches quickly. Ask the provider which accounts participants need, and budget for them.