Helping citizens understand AI: Strengthening AI talent, skills, and
literacy across Europe
The European Commission is taking major steps to boost Europe’s AI
talent
[https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/ai-talent-skills-and-literacy],
strengthen workforce skills, and improve AI literacy among citizens
and organisations. As part of its broader approach to trustworthy and
human-centric AI, the EU is working to train and attract more
researchers and professionals while ensuring that people using AI
systems have the knowledge needed to do so safely and responsibly. 

A key milestone in this effort is Article 4 of the AI Act,
[https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/1689/oj/eng] which entered
into application in February of 2025. This article requires providers
and deployers of AI systems to ensure that their staff and anyone
supporting them with AI systems possess a sufficient level of AI
literacy, considering technical knowledge, experience, and the context
in which the systems are used. National market surveillance
authorities oversee compliance, supported by the Member States through
the AI board. 

To help organisations meet these requirements, the AI Office
[https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/ai-office] has
published a detailed Q&A on AI literacy and launched a repository of
AI literacy practices
[https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/ai-talent-skills-and-literacy],
which already showcases more than 40 initiatives from companies and
the public sector. These practices were collected through two surveys,
allowing the repository to support the ongoing learning and exchange
of practices amongst its users. 

These developments form part of the Commission’s wider effort to
simplify and strengthen the EU digital rulebook, further reinforced by
the Digital Omnibus proposal
[https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/digital-omnibus-regulation-proposal]
introduced in November 2025. Organisations interested in improving
their AI literacy can explore the repository and read the accompanying
summary report developed with the EU-funded ARISA project
[https://aiskills.eu/]. 

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Publication Date/Time
2026-03-02T09:00:00+00:00
How the EU is advancing AI expertise, workforce readiness, and
responsible adoption