The ETHICAI project supports higher education institutions in the ethical, inclusive and pedagogically grounded integration of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) into teaching, learning and assessment.
As GenAI tools rapidly reshape educational ecosystems, universities must ensure that their adoption is aligned with the principles of academic integrity, inclusion, transparency and institutional readiness.
ETHICAI brings together 11 partners from 8 European countries, including 7 higher education institutions, most of them open universities or providers of distance learning, offering a unique opportunity for the large-scale pilot implementation of GenAI applications in real-life contexts and across diverse teaching models.
The project seeks to implement GenAI-enhanced teaching and learning practices in authentic course settings through Learning Laboratories, which will be introduced to explore the pedagogical integration of GenAI. These laboratories will be established across all partner universities to test GenAI tools in educational environments.
The project also aims to deliver significant innovations, including an educational competence framework, tools to support self-assessment readiness, a digital toolkit featuring an AI assistant, certified micro-credentials, and a transnational Community of Practice.
All outcomes are aligned with European Union policy frameworks and are developed in collaboration with ministries and competent educational authorities across the participating countries, ensuring long-term impact and wide-scale adoption. In Portugal, this collaboration will be carried out in partnership with the Institute of Higher Education.
