ERASMUS+ TRAINING: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN EDUCATION

The course offers an immersive and hands-on training experience designed to help teachers understand, experiment with, and integrate Artificial Intelligence (AI) into their educational practices. Participants will explore both teaching with AI—using generative tools to design, support, and assess learning—and teaching about AI—helping students develop critical, creative, and ethical approaches to technology. The training represents an opportunity to reflect on the evolving role of the teacher as a designer, guide, and facilitator of the learning process. 

Participants will be encouraged to question how AI is reshaping learning paradigms and our collective vision of knowledge, creativity, and agency. Through interactive workshops, collaborative labs, and reflective discussions, participants will experience how AI can enhance active learning, data literacy, and interdisciplinary teaching—while serving as a tool for critical inquiry and shared reflection. Beyond the technical skills, the course emphasizes the use of AI tools as a fuel for dialogue, debate, and peer exchange on major educational and societal issues. 

Contents and training are designed by G-Lab S.r.l. impresa sociale, a recognized institution for teachers’ training by the Italian Ministry of Education, holding accreditation by the Emilia Romagna Region for lifelong learning and ISO 9001 Quality Certification. The program is tailored to be fully funded by Erasmus+ KA1 funding and ensures the best quality within Erasmus quality standards.

During the sessions, participants will also have the opportunity to explore and experiment with an ecosystem of innovative learning environments and digital tools developed and tested by the experts of G-Lab and Fondazione Golinelli, designed to foster creativity, inquiry-based learning, and interdisciplinary collaboration.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

• Acquire methodological competences to design everyday learning activities integrating AI.
• Strengthen their role as designers and facilitators of meaningful, AI-enhanced learning experiences.
• Understand the opportunities and limitations of the latest AI tools and their responsible use in education.
• Experiment with educational data science approaches to foster students’ critical thinking and analytical skills.
• Apply AI-supported planning, assessment, and personalization in their teaching practice.
• Reflect on ethical, social, and pedagogical implications of working with AI at school.

COURSE DETAILS

When: 9-13 November 2026
Where: Bologna, Opificio Golinelli
Cost: 550€/participant (includes course materials, certificate of attendance, coffee breaks, lunches from Monday to Friday and a light aperitif on Tuesday).
Participants with a Erasmus+ KA1 grant, will receive support in the validation of the Europass Mobility Document and a certificate in line with Erasmus+ Quality Standards
Target group: lower, upper-secondary school and VET teachers
Language: English
Participants: Minimum 8 – Maximum 28
 

PRE ENROLLMENT FORM (UNTIL OCTOBER 12TH)
 

PROGRAMME

Day 1 -  INTRODUCTION TO AI IN EDUCATION
From 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.

• Registration and welcome session
• Guided tour of Fondazione Golinelli labs and educational spaces
• LEGO Serious Play Workshop: Current attitudes towards the use of AI in education
• Introductory Lecture and Vision: “AI and social transformation in education and beyond” – reshaping educational goals and learning paradigms
• Discussion Workshop: AI and teaching practices
• Lunch 

Day 2 -  TEACHING WITH AI: TOOLS AND PRACTICES FOR EDUCATORS
From 9 a.m to 1 p.m 

• Visit to Scuola delle Idee Marino Golinelli 
• Discussion and sharing of current national guidelines on AI in education
• Design Workshop: Using generative AI for lesson planning, curriculum design, and subject-specific in-depth content
• Reflection: How AI changes the teacher’s role as a designer and mentor
• Lunch 

From 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.

• Interactive STEAM city game to discover Bologna’s cultural traits 
• Aperitif

Day 3 - PPREPARING STUDENTS FOR AN ADVANCED USE OF AI
From 9 a.m to 1 p.m 

• AI as a teaching assistant: the Fondazione Golinelli approach and ecosystem of learning environments and digital tools
• Hands-on experimentation: Using generative AI tools to foster competences beyond disciplines
• Discussion Workshop: Learning with AI – opportunities and risks
• Reflection: Building students’ digital and ethical awareness
• Retrospective of the day
• Lunch

Day 4 - MACHINE LEARNING AND DATA SCIENCE
From 9 a.m to 2 p.m 

• Introduction to Machine Learning and Data Science for education: How algorithms “learn” through data
• Hands-on experimentation: “Deciding with data” 
• Reflection: developing students’ analytical and decision-making skills through AI
• Retrospective of the day
• Lunch

Day 5 - AI AND CREATIVITY
From 9 a.m to 2 p.m 

• The impact of AI and innovation on education and beyond
• Vibe coding: Innovative ways to code, create, express
• Hands-on experimentation: “Machine learning blending art and science”
• Design Workshop: refining ideas for creating classroom activities
• Final evaluation and certification
• Lunch
   

2026 ERASMUS + TRAINING COURSES 

In 2026, G-Lab S.r.l. Erasmus+ training course offer include the following programs for teachers and education staff:

• TEACHING WITH A STEAM APPROACH - BRIDGING SCIENCE, ART AND TECHNOLOGY IN THE CLASSROOM
  International Spring School planned for 4-8 May 2026. More details and pre-registration here

• ENGAGING CLASSROOMS WITH GAME-BASED LEARNING AND STEAM
  International Summer School planned for 27-31 July 2026. More details and pre-registration here

   

ABOUT G-LAB AND FONDAZIONE GOLINELLI

Fondazione Golinelli is a unique Italian example of a private and operative foundation, inspired by the model of the American philanthropic foundations. One of its strategic goals is to provide youngsters (especially school students) with guidelines and tools that enable them to grow responsibly, civically and socially, fostering the creation of ethical behavior for a more cohesive society. Fondazione Golinelli is organized in 4 different Areas: Art and Science, School, Enterprise, Research and higher education. With a focus on STEAM education, innovative methodology and entrepreneurial culture, the School Area provides scientific and technological activities at the national level. Among these, labs and workshops to students of all ages (from preschool to university ones), training experiences for teachers and school managers and learning activities for professionals and adults.

The main training, educational and cultural activities of Fondazione Golinelli are hosted at Opificio Golinelli (Bologna, Italy). Due to the numeric dimensions (14.000SQM) and its cultural model, Opificio Golinelli is considered one of the largest experimental laboratories for teaching science and technology as well as a center of national and international importance.

Fondazione Golinelli operates though G-Lal S.r.l. Impresa Sociale, a social enterprise created in 2018 with the aim of enhancing and disseminating the expertise, that Fondazione Golinelli has developed during many years, especially targeting the School and Education sector. Both Fondazione Golinelli and G-Lab are recognized institution for teachers’ training by the Italian Ministry of Education and G-Lab holds accreditation by the Emilia Romagna Region for lifelong learning.

Fondazione Golinelli has been developing applied research on relevant issues like STEAM approach to teaching and learning, digital tools and environments and active learning, on Artificial Intelligence and teaching practices. Since 2018 G-Lab includes an AR and VR Division, which is also in charge of the creation of Golinelli LiVE Live Virtual Experience, a virtual reality simulator for the creation of science laboratory experiences. Since 2022 G-Lab owns and manages a private school, recognized and accredited by the Italian Ministry of Education “Scuola delle Idee Marino Golinelli”, the first STEAM-oriented lower secondary school in Italy.