Bringing artificial intelligence into vocational training

University of Stuttgart is successful in InnoVET innovation competition together with four partners. Artificial intelligence will change the economic value added chain forever, but so far there has been a shortage of specialists and managers with the right kind of expertise for this transformation process. The "Bringing Artificial Intelligence into Vocational Training" concept is now developing qualification modules for AI masters with expertise in the fields of data management and data analysis in particular. Taking part are the Institute of Natural Language Processing and the Institute of Software Engineering at the University of Stuttgart, the chambers of commerce of Reutlingen, Karlsruhe and the Stuttgart region, as well as LMU Munich. "We are proud that, together with our partners, we were able to convince the jury and that our innovative concept for professional training and further education of AI specialists has been included in the funding", says Dr. Wolfgang Epp, Chief Executive of the Reutlingen Chamber of Commerce. "This means that we will have the opportunity to train the AI experts that we need both in our area and in the whole of Baden-Württemberg at an early stage." Prof. Stefan Wagner, Head of the Institute of Software Engineering at the University of Stuttgart, adds "We're bringing a unique innovation to vocational training. Artificial intelligence content hasn't been provided for this type of education before." Prof. Thang Vu, holder of the Chair of Digital Phonetics at the Institute for Natural Language Processing, is also pleased about the project.