For training providers How can VAIA help you?
Are you a training provider, educational institution, or an organisation with a passion for learning? Looking to expand your offering with more or different courses or modules on artificial intelligence? VAIA helps you strengthen your AI training portfolio in terms of quantity, reach, and quality. We also help showcase your AI training through our website and communication channels.
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Experts & teachers on AI
Browse our expert list and find the teacher that fits your course.
Learning material
Do you struggle with the different knowledge levels of your participants? Our tip: ask participants to follow (modules) of a free online course beforehand. This way participants will start from a more equal knowledge level and with a common language.
Quality courses?
Check out our overview of aspects to consider for an effective, successful AI training that makes professionals and their employers happy customers.
Which AI learning needs?
Discover the AI attitude, AI learning needs and learning profile of your target audience, and use the insights to increase the success of your training offer.
Good ideas are meant to be copied
Use our training overview to benchmark your our offer: which experts are other course providers booking? Which topics are interesting? And how much do your colleagues charge?
Promotion
Boost your courses, experts and expertise by adding your courses, experts and insights on vaia.be.
Tailored advice
VAIA talks with training providers, AI and upskilling specialists on a daily basis: we collect many insights, both theoretical and practical. Don't hesitate to contact us for tailored advice: we love to think along❣️
“ As an AI professional, I see VAIA as a connector within the field. Their extensive network and deep understanding of the AI landscape make them a valuable link between needs and solutions. ”
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Promotion of your training offer
Promote your courses via the VAIA course database towards thousands of professionals and companies in Flanders.
Your experts in the spotlight
Knowledge is your greatest asset, so don't forget to be proud of your experts and trainers!
Share your knowledge via a guest blog
Promote your experience, insights or research results via a guest blog on VAIA. We are always on the lookout for realistic Flemish use cases!
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AI literacy (EU AI Act Article 4)
AI literacy helps people assess whether using AI is a good or bad idea and how to apply it correctly. As of 2 February 2025, every organisation in the EU should take measures to support the development of sufficient AI literacy among their employees, end-users, and anyone else affected by their use of AI systems.
AI to lighten your daily administrative load: Five GenAI hacks
Did you know AI can help you handle your administrative tasks more efficiently? Discover five smart GenAI applications to streamline your workflow, collected by Eva Blondeel (Ghent University).
MLOps: using machine learning efficiently
Do you understand how AI works? Then now is the time to learn how to implement AI models efficiently, in day-to-day practice: self-learning, self-directed, yet controlled. You can achieve this thanks to MLOps: a bundle of good practices that allows you to automate and optimise the entire AI process. Axel-Jan Rousseau (UHasselt, VAIA) explains how this works.
AI applied in Flanders
How to use AI in retail? Find speed and impact
Meaningful use of AI is undeniably one of the cornerstones of a future-proof retailer. But what exactly does that mean? Because AI is often discussed from a technical angle, it is not always clear how the technology can make a meaningful difference for retail.
An example of image recognition: detecting comics in the archive
History and artificial intelligence, polar opposites? That is merely an illusion, as PhD student Bas Vercruysse of UGent knows. To study the historical evolution of comics, he uses computer vision to automatically detect comic strips in old magazines. And that saves a lot of time.
Every tree has a fingerprint: combating illegal timber trade
The trade of illegal timber is growing worldwide: timber with unknown origins increasingly finds its way to the market through shady routes. To combat this, Thomas Mortier (UGent) and Victor Deklerck (World Forest ID, Plantentuin Meise) developed an AI model that can trace the origin of timber via a unique ‘chemical fingerprint’. Their research was recently published in the prestigious journal ‘Nature Plants’.
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