09/10/2026
About AI CAREER PATH
AI CAREER PATH is an Erasmus+ vocational education and training project developing an accessible digital approach to career guidance for young VET learners. The project responds to a practical challenge faced by many students: choosing a professional direction without having sufficient information about their strengths, interests, employment preferences or the skills required by a changing labour market. Career guidance within smaller VET institutions is often based on informal conversations and the personal experience of individual teachers. Educators may not have access to affordable digital tools that can connect a student’s individual profile with emerging professional opportunities, particularly careers associated with Europe’s digital and green transitions.
AI CAREER PATH addresses this gap by combining a transparent digital career-matching tool with structured, teacher-led guidance. The project will help students explore possible career pathways, understand why these options may suit them and identify the skills they should consider developing. The tool is designed to support informed conversations between students and trained educators. It will not make automated or binding decisions about a learner’s future.
European partnership
AI CAREER PATH is implemented through cooperation among organisations in three European countries:
• Aspon Consulting, Cyprus – project management, coordination, quality assurance, digital tool development, ethical oversight and dissemination
• Training Academy – L’Accademia della Formazione S.R.L., Italy – pedagogical development, teacher training and pilot implementation
• Involved Learning, Bulgaria – inclusion, curriculum validation, evaluation, accessibility and project communication
The partnership combines experience in project management, vocational education, career guidance, digital learning, curriculum development, inclusion and work with learners facing educational or socioeconomic barriers.
Project objectives
AI CAREER PATH aims to:
• Develop and internally test an accessible digital career-matching tool.
• Connect students’ interests, strengths and preferences with three to five potential career pathways.
• Highlight professions connected to the digital and green transitions.
• Help students understand the transversal, digital, technical and green skills they may need.
• Create a structured questionnaire that VET institutions can reuse independently.
• Develop a practical Teacher Guidance Toolkit comprising at least five modules and 15 learning hours.
• Train 18 VET teachers and guidance professionals across three countries.
• Pilot the approach with at least 60 VET students.
• Improve participants’ understanding of their possible career direction and development needs.
• Provide an affordable and transferable guidance model for smaller VET providers.
How the digital tool works
Students begin by completing a structured questionnaire covering:
• Personal and professional interests.
• Soft and transversal skills.
• Technical inclinations.
• Preferred working environments.
• Personal values and motivation.
• Career expectations and professional priorities.
A transparent matching methodology connects the student’s responses with suitable professional fields. The tool then generates between three and five possible career pathways, including opportunities in future-oriented digital and green sectors. Each suggestion will explain the connection between the student’s responses and the recommended field. The tool will also identify relevant skills that the student may need to acquire or strengthen. The process follows six stages:
1. Profile: The student completes the structured questionnaire.
2. Match: Predetermined scoring rules connect the answers with relevant career fields.
3. Explain: The tool presents three to five pathways and explains the basis of each suggestion.
4. Identify skills: Relevant technical, transversal, digital and green competencies are highlighted.
5. Guide: A trained teacher discusses the results with the student and supports consideration of the available options.
6. Evaluate: Student and teacher feedback is collected and used to improve the tool and guidance process.
The matching logic will be documented and reviewable. Ethical-use guidelines, bias controls and data-protection procedures will support responsible implementation, particularly because the project involves learners aged 15–19.
Human guidance at the centre
Although the project uses a digital career-matching tool, AI CAREER PATH is built around the principle of human guidance. The results are not intended to tell a student what career they must pursue. Instead, they provide a structured starting point for a conversation with a qualified teacher, trainer or guidance professional.
This approach combines the efficiency of a digital tool with the context, empathy and professional judgement that only human guidance can provide.
Teacher Guidance Toolkit
AI CAREER PATH will develop a Teacher Guidance Toolkit containing at least five structured learning modules and approximately 15 hours of learning content. The toolkit will prepare VET teachers and guidance professionals to. The toolkit will include practical exercises, case studies, workshop materials and guidance that can be reused by other VET institutions.
Teacher training and student pilots
The project will train 18 VET teachers and guidance professionals, with six participants from each partner country. Once trained, these educators will support a pilot involving 60 VET students, 20 each in Cyprus, Italy and Bulgaria.
Participants will complete the questionnaire, receive their career-pathway suggestions and take part in a guided feedback session. The project has established specific inclusion targets:
• At least 50% of participating students should be female.
• At least 30% should be learners with fewer opportunities.
• Teacher participation should also seek gender balance.
Learners with fewer opportunities may include students experiencing economic hardship, rural isolation, migrant or minority backgrounds, limited family educational support or a heightened risk of leaving education early. Pre- and post-pilot surveys will measure changes in participants’ confidence, career clarity and understanding of the skills they need. The project aims for at least 75% of participating students to report an improvement in their understanding of their future career direction.
Expected project results
By the end of the project, AI CAREER PATH will deliver:
• A pilot Digital Career Matching Tool.
• A validated Student Questionnaire Framework.
• Transparent Matching Logic and Ethical Use Guidelines.
• An Internal Testing Report.
• A Teacher Guidance Toolkit with at least five modules.
• Fifteen hours of teacher-training content.
• Training for 18 VET teachers and guidance professionals.
• Pilot implementation with 60 students.
• A Feedback and Improvement Report.
• An Evaluation and Recommendation Report.
• A project website providing open access to results.
• A digital project brochure and communication materials.
• Three national multiplier events.
• A Sustainability Plan for continued use of the resources.
Sharing and sustaining the results
The project website will become an open-access hub containing:
• Information about the project and its methodology.
• Access to the pilot Digital Career Matching Tool.
• The downloadable Teacher Guidance Toolkit.
• The Evaluation and Recommendation Report.
• Project news and dissemination materials.
• Contact information for organisations interested in using the approach.
Results will also be shared through the Erasmus+ Project Results Platform, EPALE, partner networks and three local multiplier events—one in Cyprus, one in Italy and one in Bulgaria. Each event will bring together VET teachers, trainers, school leaders, employers, guidance professionals and education stakeholders.
The website and principal project resources will remain accessible for at least three years after the funded implementation period.
Get involved
AI CAREER PATH welcomes interest from:
• VET students aged 15–19.
• VET teachers and trainers.
• Career counsellors and guidance professionals.
• Vocational schools and training providers.
• School leaders and education authorities.
• Employers and labour-market organisations.
• NGOs working with young people or disadvantaged learners.
• Organisations interested in digital and inclusive career guidance.
Help us create career guidance that is more personalised, transparent and inclusive, giving every learner the information and human support needed to make confident decisions about their future.
Co-Funded by the European Union through Erasmus+. Views and opinions expressed are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the granting authority.
