Future of Work
AI Readiness for the Future Workforce
Artificial Intelligence is not just a technology shift — it is redefining how work happens.
Courses
Courses
Our courses are designed for universities, institutions, and organizations seeking to prepare students for a rapidly evolving world. Each course is available in flexible formats — from short sessions to full academic programs — and can be adapted to different educational needs.
Available courses
Seven courses, with formats matched to each learning objective.
From focused awareness workshops to intensive and credit-bearing programmes, each course combines evidence-informed teaching with practical tools, discussion and application. Delivery can be adapted to the needs of universities, institutions and organisations.
Sales & Strategy
Future Sales: B2B Strategy
Sales is no longer just a function — it is a strategic system powered by data, relationships, and technology.
AI & NLP
Natural Language Processing & Knowledge Graphs
Understanding language is the next frontier of artificial intelligence.
Research
Scientometrics & Bibliometrics
Research is not just about knowledge — it is about positioning within a global system.
Critical Thinking
How Science Learns: Debate, Critical Thinking & Peer Review
Science evolves through challenge, debate, and validation.
Project Management
Advanced Project Management
Turn strategy and ideas into structured, controlled, and successfully delivered projects.
EU Funding & Innovation
EU Funding Awareness Guide
Understand the European funding landscape before deciding where—and how—to apply.
Course index
- 01AI Readiness for the Future WorkforceFuture of Work
- 02Future Sales: B2B StrategySales & Strategy
- 03Natural Language Processing & Knowledge GraphsAI & NLP
- 04Scientometrics & BibliometricsResearch
- 05How Science Learns: Debate, Critical Thinking & Peer ReviewCritical Thinking
- 06Advanced Project ManagementProject Management
- 07EU Funding Awareness GuideEU Funding & Innovation
Future of Work
AI Readiness for the Future Workforce
Artificial Intelligence is not just a technology shift — it is redefining how work happens.
Artificial Intelligence is not just a technology shift — it is redefining how work happens. This course helps students understand how AI is transforming industries, decision-making, and human roles across business, research, and academia. Rather than focusing on coding, it explores how workflows evolve, how value is created, and how individuals can stay relevant in an AI-driven world. Students gain a strategic perspective on the future of work — where human expertise meets machine intelligence — and learn how to position themselves in rapidly changing environments.
Available formats
- 2-Hour SessionMost popular
AI Shift Overview
A fast-paced introduction to how AI is reshaping industries, roles, and workflows.
- 4-Hour Workshop
AI in Practice
Deeper exploration with real-world examples and interactive discussion on adaptation strategies.
- 8-Hour Intensive
Future of Work Masterclass
A structured, full-day experience covering systems, workflows, and future scenarios.
- 1-Credit Course
Foundations of AI Readiness
Academic introduction to AI's impact on work, including case-based learning and discussion.
- 3-Credit Course
Strategic AI & Workforce Transformation
Comprehensive program with frameworks, case studies, and applied thinking on future careers.
Sales & Strategy
Future Sales: B2B Strategy
Sales is no longer just a function — it is a strategic system powered by data, relationships, and technology.
Sales is no longer just a function — it is a strategic system powered by data, relationships, and technology. This course provides a deep understanding of modern B2B sales, from lead generation to long-term partnership building. It explores how digital tools, AI, and data-driven insights are transforming how organizations sell and scale. Students learn how to navigate complex decision environments, build value-driven strategies, and develop the mindset required for the future of sales.
Available formats
- 2-Hour SessionMost popular
Modern Sales Landscape
Quick overview of how B2B sales is evolving in a digital world.
- 4-Hour Workshop
Sales Process & Strategy
Interactive breakdown of the full sales cycle with practical insights.
- 8-Hour Intensive
B2B Sales Mastery
Comprehensive exploration of strategy, tools, and future sales roles.
- 1-Credit Course
Foundations of B2B Sales
Structured academic introduction to sales processes and strategy.
- 3-Credit Course
Advanced Sales & Growth Strategy
In-depth program combining analytics, strategy, and real-world applications.
AI & NLP
Natural Language Processing & Knowledge Graphs
Understanding language is the next frontier of artificial intelligence.
Understanding language is the next frontier of artificial intelligence. This course introduces students to Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Knowledge Graphs — two core technologies behind modern AI systems. It explores how machines interpret human language and how unstructured data becomes structured knowledge. From search engines to intelligent systems, students gain both conceptual understanding and pathways toward real-world implementation.
Available formats
- 2-Hour SessionMost popular
AI & Language Basics
Introduction to how machines process and understand human language.
- 4-Hour Workshop
NLP & Knowledge Systems
Exploration of core concepts with applied examples.
- 8-Hour Intensive
Applied NLP & Graph Thinking
Full-day deep dive into systems, use cases, and architecture.
- 1-Credit Course
Foundations of NLP
Academic introduction with core theories and structured learning.
- 3-Credit Course
NLP & Knowledge Graph Engineering
Comprehensive course including hands-on work and real-world datasets.
Research
Scientometrics & Bibliometrics
Research is not just about knowledge — it is about positioning within a global system.
Research is not just about knowledge — it is about positioning within a global system. This course equips PhD students with the tools to analyse scientific literature, identify trends, and strategically position their research. Moving beyond traditional literature reviews, it introduces data-driven approaches to understanding scientific impact and evolution. Students learn how to map their field, discover opportunities, and define their unique research contribution.
Available formats
- 2-Hour SessionMost popular
Understanding Scientific Impact
Quick introduction to research metrics and trends.
- 4-Hour Workshop
Mapping Research Landscapes
Hands-on exploration of citation networks and research positioning.
- 8-Hour Intensive
Strategic Research Analysis
Full-day deep dive into tools, methods, and applications.
- 1-Credit Course
Foundations of Scientometrics
Structured academic course on analysing scientific knowledge systems.
- 3-Credit Course
Advanced Research Strategy & Analytics
Comprehensive program for PhD-level strategic research development.
Critical Thinking
How Science Learns: Debate, Critical Thinking & Peer Review
Science evolves through challenge, debate, and validation.
Science evolves through challenge, debate, and validation. This course explores how knowledge is created, tested, and refined through scientific debate, critical thinking, and peer review. It provides a deep understanding of how ideas evolve and how scientific systems maintain quality and credibility. It also examines how AI is reshaping research practices, raising new questions about authorship, originality, and evaluation.
Available formats
- 2-Hour SessionMost popular
How Science Evolves
Introduction to the core mechanisms of scientific progress.
- 4-Hour Workshop
Debate & Critical Thinking
Interactive exploration of argumentation and evaluation.
- 8-Hour Intensive
Science as a System
Full-day deep dive into epistemology and modern challenges.
- 1-Credit Course
Foundations of Scientific Thinking
Academic introduction to debate, peer review, and critical analysis.
- 3-Credit Course
Advanced Epistemology & Research Practice
Comprehensive course on how science functions and evolves in modern contexts.
Project Management
Advanced Project Management
Turn strategy and ideas into structured, controlled, and successfully delivered projects.
Successful projects require more than schedules, task lists, and software tools. They require clear objectives, realistic planning, effective governance, coordinated teams, informed decision-making, and continuous control.
This course gives advanced students a practical understanding of the complete project lifecycle—from defining the business need and establishing project objectives to planning, implementation, monitoring, change control, closure, and benefits evaluation.
Students learn how to develop scope, schedules, budgets, resource plans, stakeholder strategies, risk responses, quality controls, and communication systems. They also examine predictive, agile, and hybrid delivery approaches and learn how to select an appropriate method for different projects and organizational environments.
Through practical cases, collaborative exercises, and an applied project, students develop the judgement and professional discipline required to balance scope, time, cost, quality, risk, resources, and expected value.
What students will learn
- Translate strategic objectives into clearly defined projects.
- Develop project charters, objectives, deliverables, and success criteria.
- Define and control project scope.
- Create work breakdown structures, schedules, milestones, and budgets.
- Plan resources, responsibilities, procurement, quality, and communication.
- Identify stakeholders and manage their expectations and involvement.
- Recognize, analyse, respond to, and monitor project risks.
- Lead project teams and support effective collaboration.
- Select predictive, agile, or hybrid delivery approaches.
- Monitor performance and communicate project status.
- Evaluate and control proposed changes.
- Address delays, conflicts, uncertainty, and competing priorities.
- Close projects systematically and capture lessons learned.
- Evaluate project outcomes, benefits, and organizational value.
Available formats
- 2-Hour SessionMost popular
The Project Lifecycle
A fast introduction to how projects run from business need through to closure.
- 4-Hour Workshop
Scope, Schedule & Budget
Hands-on work on charters, work breakdown structures, milestones, and cost plans.
- 8-Hour Intensive
Delivery, Risk & Control
A full day on governance, stakeholders, risk response, change control, and reporting.
- 1-Credit Course
Foundations of Project Management
Academic introduction to the project lifecycle, planning, and delivery discipline.
- 3-Credit Course
Advanced Project Delivery & Governance
Comprehensive program across predictive, agile, and hybrid delivery, with an applied project.
EU Funding & Innovation
EU Funding Awareness Guide
Understand the European funding landscape before deciding where—and how—to apply.
European innovation support is not one fund and it is not found in one place. It is a layered system of centrally managed programmes, national and regional routes, financial instruments, partnerships, networks and territorial cooperation. This four-hour awareness course turns that complexity into a practical map.
Participants learn how Horizon Europe is organised, what its six Pillar II clusters cover, where the European Innovation Council and Eurostars fit, and how programmes such as DIGITAL, LIFE, EU4Health, the Innovation Fund, InvestEU, ERDF, I3 and Interreg support different stages and activities. The course also introduces Technology Readiness Levels and the regulatory questions that should be considered before funding and project decisions are made.
No prior EU-funding experience is required. The session is designed to help participants recognise promising routes, screen obvious mismatches and identify the next official source or expert to consult. It is an awareness and navigation course, not a proposal-writing clinic, legal opinion or guarantee of eligibility or funding.
Who this course is for
- Researchers, research managers and university support teams new to European funding.
- Start-up, SME and innovation teams exploring R&D, demonstration, deployment or scale-up routes.
- Public bodies, NGOs, clusters and regional-development actors building European projects.
- Project and programme managers who need a common funding, TRL and regulatory vocabulary.
- Leaders who need an informed first-pass view before commissioning deeper call or proposal work.
What students will learn
- Describe the main management routes and support mechanisms in the European innovation-funding system.
- Navigate Horizon Europe's pillars, six clusters, Missions, Partnerships and EIC continuum.
- Explain where Eurostars differs from a standard centrally managed Horizon grant.
- Identify representative routes for research, SME-led R&D, digital deployment, regional cooperation, clean-tech demonstration and scale-up finance.
- Interpret TRL 1–9 using evidence-based examples and recognise what TRL does not prove.
- Spot early regulatory triggers involving AI, data protection, cybersecurity, health and product-market rules.
- Produce a one-page route map with the next source, eligibility question and expert check required.
Available format
- 4-Hour Workshop
Online or in person
Introductory awareness, team alignment and early-stage navigation.
Programme
Total facilitated time: 240 minutes, including a 10-minute break.
| Time | Segment | Content | Participant output |
|---|---|---|---|
| 00:00–00:20 | Orientation | Why European support is fragmented; the architecture from policy and budget to call, instrument and beneficiary. | Shared mental model |
| 00:20–01:10 | Map 1 — routes and mechanisms | Direct, shared and indirect management; grants, prizes, procurement, equity, loans/guarantees, infrastructure and advice. | Three-track search logic |
| 01:10–02:00 | Map 2 — Horizon and EIC | Three pillars; six Pillar II clusters; Missions and Partnerships; Pathfinder, Transition and Accelerator. | Horizon route map |
| 02:00–02:10 | Break | Short pause. | — |
| 02:10–02:45 | Map 3 — the wider landscape | Eurostars; DIGITAL; LIFE; EU4Health; Innovation Fund; InvestEU; ERDF; I3; Interreg and Danube. Visegrad is labelled as a regional, non-EU complement. | Wider-support map |
| 02:45–03:20 | Map 4 — TRL | TRL 1–9, evidence gates and worked examples from AI, health technology and clean industry. | Defensible current/target TRL |
| 03:20–03:50 | Map 5 — regulation | AI, privacy and data, cybersecurity, health and product-market triggers; regulation as an early design and funding input. | Trigger checklist |
| 03:50–04:00 | Action and Q&A | Participants select a likely route, identify a critical unknown and choose the next official source or expert check. | Personal next-step map |
What participants take away
- One-page European innovation-support landscape map.
- Horizon Europe six-cluster quick guide and EIC pathway summary.
- TRL 1–9 ladder with AI, health and clean-industrial examples.
- Regulatory trigger checklist for AI, data, cyber, health and products.
- Funding-fit and next-step worksheet.
- Curated list of official navigation sources.
Teaching approach
Plain-language explanation, visual maps, worked examples and short fit exercises are used throughout. Participants may bring a non-confidential innovation idea or organisational need for the closing route-mapping exercise. No prior knowledge, consortium or active call is required.
ScopeThis course provides general educational information. It does not replace the current call documents, national eligibility rules, professional legal/regulatory advice or a project-specific funding assessment. Programme conditions and laws change; authoritative current sources prevail.
Common questions
- Do participants need previous EU-funding experience?
- No. The workshop is designed as an introductory awareness and navigation guide.
- Does the course teach proposal writing?
- No. It helps participants understand the landscape, identify plausible routes and prepare for deeper call analysis or proposal support.
- Will the course identify a specific open call for my project?
- The course teaches a repeatable search and fit method. Open calls and project-specific eligibility should be checked separately against current official documents.
- Are TRLs covered?
- Yes. Participants receive a practical TRL 1–9 explanation with worked examples and learn what evidence supports a readiness claim.
- Does the course cover regulation?
- Yes, at awareness level. It introduces early signals from AI, data protection, cybersecurity, health and product regulation; it does not provide legal advice.
- Can the workshop be adapted to our sector or region?
- Yes. Examples and the closing route-mapping exercise can be adapted to the host organisation, participant profile and geography while preserving the four-hour learning design.
What every course gives you
The format follows the objective
Most courses run as a 2-hour session, a 4-hour workshop, an 8-hour intensive, or as a 1- or 3-credit academic course; the awareness course runs as a single four-hour workshop. The depth changes; the material behind it does not.
Built for the institution
Each course can be adapted to different educational needs, so it fits an existing curriculum, a staff development day, or a full semester slot.
Grounded in published research
The material comes out of our own work in scientometrics, NLP and the science of scientific change — the same research behind the Ticker Bell books.
Credit-bearing when you need it
The 1- and 3-credit programs are structured as academic courses, with case-based learning and assessment, rather than as talks with a certificate attached.
Ready to discuss a course for your institution?
Book a free 15-minute intro call or request course details by email — we'll help you choose the right format.