How can we provide AI skills now to those who need them most?

The need for AI skills is abysmal (more than 7,500 specialists in France over the period 2020 - 2023 according to the latest OPIIEC report ). The scarce skills available are monopolized by large companies that have the means to attract them with attractive salaries and comfortable environments.

Even if the supply of training courses grows exponentially, it will take several years to satisfy demand, especially for small businesses or organizations that don't have the means to invest.

This creates a market asymmetry that favors the most digitally advanced companies, who take full advantage of AI's competitive edge, thus consolidating their lead.

How can we close this gap? That's what the AI Clinic is all about.

The AI Clinic: a civic service for students and companies

Following the example of law clinics, where students, supervised by professors, carry out "pro bono" legal work in the public interest, the AI Clinic borrows the same model for organizations. The benefits are twofold.

  • Enabling students to learn data science while practicing it. The AI Clinic represents 6 to 9 hours of work per week, and the projects they work on are an integral part of the training.
  • Provide free, easy access to all organizations that need artificial intelligence to realize their ambitions: small and medium-sized businesses, associations, non-profit organizations.

Supervised by aivancity professors, students study projects, propose solutions and suggest improvements, involving SMEs, VSEs, associations and non-profit organizations at every stage. The approach will be global: technical, business and responsible.

  • The partner organizations are involved at every stage of the process: project presentation, referral during project work, evaluation.
  • Depending on the level of maturity, several teams of students can take turns working on the project.

Project: Analysis and visualization of audience attendance and expectations for activity programs

Project objectives

  • Identify public expectations and propose activity programs.
  • Evaluate the impact of devices on users' well-being/health.

Testimonial from Benjamin Raspail, CEO of HappyVisio

Unique school in France 

The project consisted in working with the school's students on an analysis of the DATA collected on our website to better understand our users' uses, preferences and profiles. The work was supervised by a teacher from the school. The project lasted 3 months, during which the students produced several studies and analyses based on the use of Power BI software. We were fully satisfied with this cooperation and the involvement of the students and their teacher, which enabled us to work on better qualifying our products and better targeting our end-users.

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You would like to submit a project to the AI Clinic and work with our students

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