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AI Training for Youth Workers
Hands-on workshops where participants test tools, assess their limitations, and build activities they can use with young people.
About the trainingsDimitris Maniatakos · Youth Worker & AI Trainer
Learn AI by Doing.
I help youth workers and organisations turn AI into practical learning experiences.
Hands-on training, non-formal learning and Erasmus+ projects, designed so that people leave with something they can use the following week.
Track record
Seven years in the youth field, in three distinct roles.
Participating, coordinating and training are different jobs. I count them separately.
- 7years in youth work
- 85+programmes participated in
- 30+programmes coordinated
- 17+programmes as trainer
AI Training
Nine learning areas, one way of learning.
From communicating with AI to building tools and designing learning experiences. A few of the areas we can work in:
Communicate effectively with AI
You learn to ask useful questions, give the context a tool needs, and refine a prompt over several rounds instead of settling for the first answer.
Build AI agents
An agent is an AI set up to carry out a multi-step task on its own: instructions, the tools it may use, the limits it must respect.
Create games with AI
From an idea and a few simple rules to a playable prototype in one session, then into the hands of real players.
Develop ethical judgement in AI use
Ethics here is a skill you practise, not a warning you read.
Three ways to work together
Choose the engagement that fits your team.
Each one rests on the same idea: people learn best when they try things on real tasks and then talk honestly about what happened.
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AI in Erasmus+ Learning
Design and facilitation of youth learning experiences where AI supports creation, critical thinking and personal expression.
See Y-Cycle03
Training & Project Facilitation
Non-formal education design, intercultural group facilitation and Erasmus+ coordination.
Discuss a projectSelected work
Two projects, one way of working.
A training for youth workers and a youth exchange with young people. Both built around doing rather than listening.
Training · Hungarian National Agency
CompletedYouth and AI
Integrating AI into the daily work of youth workers.
My role: Trainer, in the context of my Training of Trainers path
Read the case study- The challenge
- Youth workers hear about AI every day but rarely get to test it against their own work, with colleagues and with time to fail.
- The response
- A hands-on training on integrating AI into everyday youth work: real tasks, tools tested side by side, limits named, activities built.
Erasmus+ Youth Exchange · Elafonisos, Greece
In progressY-Cycle
Co-creating personal portfolio websites with young people from four countries.
My role: Facilitator of the portfolio co-creation
Read the case study- The challenge
- Young people often struggle to put their experience, skills and ambitions into words, let alone online.
- The response
- With participants from Greece, Romania, Hungary and Portugal, we co-create personal portfolio websites and use the building process to help each person articulate who they are and where they are going.
Looking for an AI trainer, a facilitator or an Erasmus+ partner?
If you are a National Agency planning a training, a youth organisation preparing an exchange, or an education team that wants to work with AI responsibly, write to me with the idea as it stands. I reply with questions and a first outline, not a brochure.