The European University launches the fourth report of its Artificial Intelligence Observatory in Higher Education and incorporates this technology as a key tool in the training of its students, both as support and protagonist of various projects
That Artificial Intelligence is changing our world is already a given. This technology is opening new doors, changing the way we view many common tasks in the workplace, and generating new career prospects. Its influence reaches multiple areas of daily life, including education. Incorporating this tool into the educational process in a structured way that prevents its misuse, while also recognizing its capacity to broaden professional horizons, is one of the priorities of the European University, which recently published the fourth report of its Observatory of Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education, Artificial Intelligence: Perspectives and Challenges from the Student's Viewpoint .
This study analyzes how Artificial Intelligence fosters an educational approach more focused on future professional activity, making it more interdisciplinary and personalized, and the role that teachers should adopt in this new scenario. “AI is the biggest technological challenge that higher education has ever faced,” explains Alberto Sols, Dean of the STEAM School at the European University. “Other revolutions have taken much longer to reach everyone, but this one is reaching far more people in much less time.”
AI as a driver of training
Since 2023, the European University has taken an active role in researching and analyzing AI as a tool for higher education. To this end, it created a committee, led by the company's CIO, Manu Patiño, to develop and implement AI-based solutions that could enhance student learning. This committee analyzes the possibilities for innovation, process improvement and resource optimization, the role AI plays in decision-making, and the competitive advantage that can result from using it in the educational process. Its goal is to make AI knowledge and access available to students and faculty across all disciplines at the university.
As part of this initiative, the European University has implemented around twenty AI-based solutions, both developed in-house and in collaboration with various companies, aimed at improving and facilitating educational training. These include translation tools to automate processes and overcome language barriers, conversation assistants to help professors and students, tools for searching the university website, and an academic assistant, called Sof.AI , with specific knowledge to support students throughout their academic journey. Similarly, the learning guides for the STEAM School's degree programs for the 2025/26 academic year will incorporate a code indicating the permitted level of AI use in documents and assessments.
Other AI applications being implemented by the European University are geared towards the field of marketing, with tools that monitor the activity of potential competitors, solutions for analyzing objectives, or for detecting information or patterns in surveys.
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