AI Foundations
01Practical AI for Everyone
All staff
A working level of AI literacy for every seat: what these tools are, what they get wrong, and the habits that keep their output safe to use.
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EU AI Act Article 4Training
Courses that make AI a working skill.
Six CPD-accredited courses and one flagship. All hands-on, all delivered by engineers from regulated manufacturing.
01The pathway
Three levels, in order.
Most organisations start everyone on Foundations, then send the people who work with AI daily to Mastery, and the people who decide where it goes to Strategist.
AI Mastery
02From User to Power User
Managers and knowledge workers
Hands-on sessions built around your real workflows. Participants leave with working prompts, a custom assistant of their own and an honest sense of where AI helps.
- Advanced prompt engineering
- Creating your own custom GPT
- AI for workflow automation
- AI ethics and compliance
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AI Strategist
03Power User to AI Leader
Leadership teams
Where AI belongs in the business, and where it does not. Capability, risk, procurement and the decisions leadership should not delegate.
- Strategic AI foundation and business alignment
- ROI measurement and value realisation
- Competitive intelligence and market positioning
- AI governance, risk and compliance
Four modules, 50 minutes each
02Specialist courses
Three that go deep on one job.
Built for a specific role and its tools, so people practise on the work they will do on Monday.
AI Data Analytics and Visualisation
04Anyone who lives in spreadsheets and reporting
From raw Excel data to decisions you can defend, using AI to do the analysis and the chart-making.
- Data analytics foundations
- Sales and revenue
- Customer and marketing
- Operations and efficiency
- Financial performance
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Plant Predictive Maintenance with MS Copilot
05Maintenance, reliability and operations teams
Turning industrial data into predictive action on the assets that stop production when they fail.
- Predictive maintenance for modern manufacturing
- Filter membrane predictive maintenance
- Detect valve erosion and predict failure
- Compressor health monitoring
- Heat exchanger monitoring
Five modules, 20 to 45 minutes each
Applied AI for Construction Professionals with MS Excel
06Construction professionals
Turning construction data into smarter, safer decisions, from pre-construction cost control through to asset management.
- AI for cost, design and pre-construction control
- AI for planning, scheduling and risk prediction
- AI on site: safety, progress and quality control
- AI for commercial control, contracts and claims
- AI for asset management and sustainability
Five modules, 40 minutes each
Delivery can be subsidised through Skillnet Ireland network membership. We confirm eligibility for your organisation as part of the discovery call.
03The flagship
The flagship: AI for Biopharma Manufacturing.
Two days at NIBRT in Dublin, taught on LearnSpark, the iPad-first platform we built for this course. Participants work through nine scenarios drawn from real manufacturing: deviation investigations, process drift, batch record review, audit preparation. Every decision is assessed in real time, with feedback on analytical depth, quality of evidence, regulatory awareness and decision-making.
- Two days onsite at NIBRT, Dublin
- Nine scenarios from real manufacturing, assessed in real time
- Feedback on analytical depth, evidence, regulatory awareness and decision-making
- Certificate of completion
- €2,000 per seat, enrolment through nibrt.ie
Next cohorts at NIBRT: 21 and 22 September, then 9 and 10 December 2026.
View the course on nibrt.ie
A real exchange from exercise S1: the AI pushes the pair on acceptance criteria.
04In the room
Run like a control room, not a lecture.
Instructors run the day from the LearnSpark console. Exercises release one at a time, pair progress is live, and the room projection keeps every table on the same page. This is the platform the September and December NIBRT cohorts run on.
Partners and networks
Who we deliver with.
Our courses reach organisations through the institutes we teach with, the body that accredits us, and the Skillnet Ireland networks that part-fund training for their members. Network membership is often what makes the training affordable, so it is worth checking before you budget for it.
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Ask us which network fits your organisation and we will check eligibility on the call.
Institutes
- NIBRTAI for Biopharma Manufacturing, delivered jointly in Dublin
- CASTL[PLACEHOLDER: CASTL partnership detail]
Accreditation
Skillnet Ireland networks
- Industry 4.0 Skillnet
- Sligo Chamber Skillnet
- Construction Professionals Skillnet
- Construction Alliance IT (CITA) Skillnet
AI literacy is now an obligation. Train it properly.
Article 4 of the EU AI Act requires providers and deployers of AI systems to ensure a sufficient level of AI literacy in the people who use them. AI Foundations is built to support that obligation, with role-appropriate training and records of completion. No course can certify compliance, and we will not tell you otherwise.