Free EU AI Act training: 33 modules across five tracks, a server-graded exam and a publicly verifiable certificate. Plus the Annex IV and Art. 10 working templates, and corporate workshops. Role certifications in preparation.
Art. 4 of the AI Act asks every provider and deployer to take measures supporting the AI literacy of the staff who work with their AI systems. No deadline is attached and no course is prescribed — the obligation runs continuously, and what a supervisor can ask you for is the record of what you actually did. A dated, nominative certificate is one such record, and this is where you get one for nothing.
The timetable behind it is not evenly spread. The Art. 50 transparency duties have applied since 2 August 2026. Content marking for systems already on the market follows on 2 December 2026, alongside the new Art. 5 prohibition. The high-risk regime for standalone Annex III systems lands on 2 December 2027, and Annex I embedded products on 2 August 2028 — far enough to feel comfortable, close enough that a programme begun in late 2027 will not be ready in time.
Everything you can read here is free: 33 modules across five tracks, written against the article numbers rather than around them. What is paid is the examination for the four role certifications — in preparation — and the working files you would otherwise build from a blank spreadsheet.
Three moves, in order. Stopping after the first is a legitimate outcome, and for most staff it is the right one.
Five modules on the Regulation itself, then a role track if your job touches the obligations directly. Free, no account, no order imposed on you.
A paper drawn per candidate and graded on our server. Pass at 70% and a certificate is issued with a unique ID, alongside an Open Badge for LinkedIn.
Knowing the Regulation is not complying with it. The working files turn Art. 9, 10 and 11 into registers you can hand to an auditor.
Whether you are in scope, and by what. Five modules, about three hours, and the certificate at the end costs nothing — no payment details are collected at any point.
The foundation course, and one Art. 4 AI literacy measure you can put in the file. It answers the questions that come before every other question: does the Regulation reach us, what are we in it — provider, deployer, both — and what is already due.
No account, no card, no time limit. The certificate carries your name and a public verification link a third party can check.
A deployer reading provider guidance is the commonest wasted quarter in this field. Four tracks, 28 modules, written from the seat the obligations are owed from. Every module is free to read; the examination and the certificate are the paid part, and they are not on sale yet.
Deployer
The track for the 95%. Art. 26 taken paragraph by paragraph as an operating procedure, human oversight that survives a supervisory review, logs, and the Art. 25 triggers that quietly turn a deployer into a provider.
7 modules 20 questions bank of 101
Provider
Chapter III end to end: the risk management system, data governance, the Annex IV technical file, oversight by design, conformity assessment, CE marking, registration, and the post-market loop that never closes.
8 modules 25 questions bank of 109
GPAI
Chapter V and what builds on it: the model/system boundary, Art. 53 obligations, the 1025 FLOP systemic-risk presumption, codes of practice, and the point at which fine-tuning makes you the provider.
6 modules 20 questions bank of 89
Compliance & DPO
The transversal function: the inventory and classification register, the Art. 4 literacy programme after its July 2026 rewrite, governance gates at procurement, AI Act against GDPR, incident routes, and the audit file.
7 modules 20 questions bank of 92
They are not the same paper at different prices. The free one asks whether you are in scope; the role examinations ask whether you could run the obligation.
| Questions | Bank | Modules | What it asks | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fundamentals · free | 15 | 60 | 5 | Whether you are in scope, and by what |
| Deployer | 20 | 101 | 7 | Whether you could run Art. 26, not name it |
| Provider | 25 | 109 | 8 | Determinations that are unaffordable to reverse late |
| GPAI | 20 | 89 | 6 | Which chapter binds you, which party, which enforcer |
| Compliance & DPO | 20 | 92 | 7 | What is due, what is evidence, what is not owed |
Every paper is drawn per candidate and stratified so all modules are covered; the order of the options differs between candidates. Grading happens on our server — the answer key never reaches the browser. Each track page carries two sample questions on the same article, one from the free examination and one from its own, so you can see the difference before deciding.
Knowing what Art. 11 requires is not the same as having an Annex IV file. These are the documents a supervisor, a notified body or a customer's procurement team actually asks to see — pre-structured, article-referenced, and yours to fill in.
Art. 9 · Annex III
Risk scenarios pre-mapped to the eight Annex III categories, a 5×5 scoring matrix, mitigation tracking, residual risk, and a review schedule aligned to Art. 9(4).
Art. 11 · Annex IV
Annex IV section by section — intended purpose, design, training methodology, validation data, metrics, oversight, post-market plan, declaration of conformity — with an evidence owner and a completeness state per element.
Art. 10 · Art. 53
Training, validation and testing data: relevance, representativeness, completeness, bias examination, and the provenance documentation GPAI providers owe downstream.
The three together are the AI Act Template Pack — €199 excl. VAT, one named user, downloadable the moment payment clears. Four more files are sold separately or together: transparency (Art. 50), system inventory and classification, vendor due diligence, and the Art. 4 literacy programme. All seven are the Complete Toolkit at €449. See every toolkit →
The obligations differ by role, so the path through the Academy does too.
Work out which systems in the estate trigger obligations, build the classification register, and evidence the Art. 4 literacy programme. Start with Fundamentals, then the Compliance & DPO track.
Map a client's systems to the Annex III categories, screen for Art. 5 prohibitions, and prepare the declaration of conformity. The Provider track covers the determinations that are expensive to reverse.
What "human oversight" (Art. 14) and "accuracy, robustness and cybersecurity" (Art. 15) mean as build requirements, and what documentation a system needs before it can be placed on the market.
In scope of DORA and the AI Act at once: how ICT third-party risk management applies to AI vendors, and how incident reporting interacts under both regimes. See AI Act vs DORA vs NIS2.
Self-study does not scale past a handful of people, and it produces no consistent record. For organisations with several teams touching AI — legal, compliance, product, HR, procurement — the same programme is delivered live and tailored to your own systems and sector.
There is no interpretation layer between the Regulation and what you read. Every module names the provisions it covers, and the templates are annotated the same way, so any field can be checked against the source text.
One caveat we would rather state than bury: there is no official EU AI Act certification for a person, and there cannot be. Conformity assessment and notified bodies apply to AI systems, not to people (Art. 3(20)–(22), Art. 48). We are not a notified body, this is not an accredited scheme, and no course discharges Art. 4 on your behalf. What a certificate here gives you is a dated, verifiable record of one measure you took.
You do not have to read the modules first. The Fundamentals examination is open: pass it and the certificate is issued immediately, with an ID anyone can check.
Art. 4 of the EU AI Act requires providers and deployers to take measures supporting the AI literacy of staff who work with AI systems. In practice that means the relevant staff understand the AI Act's scope, its risk classification, and their organisation's obligations. Art. 4 binds the organisation, not the individual, and it asks for measures rather than a guaranteed level — the Digital Omnibus (Regulation (EU) 2026/1744) rewrote it on that point in July 2026. The free Fundamentals course is one such measure, and the certificate gives you a dated, nominative record for your file.
No — and there cannot be one. In the AI Act, conformity assessment and notified bodies apply to AI systems, not to people (Art. 3(20)-(22), Art. 48), so no body can be notified to certify a person. We issue a private, verifiable certificate and we say so plainly: we are not a notified body, and this is not an accredited certification scheme under the Regulation.
The free AI Act Fundamentals course takes 2–3 hours across 5 modules, plus about 30 minutes for the exam. Corporate in-house programmes are typically delivered as a half-day executive briefing (4 hours) or a full-day practitioner workshop (8 hours).
Yes. Every participant sits the exam individually and gets their own verifiable certificate. For corporate in-house training — including custom programmes for compliance, legal, and product teams — see the corporate training page or contact us directly. Team licences with an exportable training record are in preparation.
The Template Pack bundles three XLSX files: a Risk Register pre-mapped to the Annex III categories, a Technical Documentation Template structured to Annex IV, and a Data Governance Checklist for Art. 10. Four more are sold separately — transparency, system inventory, vendor due diligence and the Art. 4 literacy programme — or together as the Complete Toolkit.
Yes, entirely: the five Fundamentals modules, the exam, the certificate, the Open Badge and public verification — no payment details required. The 28 modules of the four role tracks are free to read as well; what is paid there is the examination and the certificate it issues, and neither is on sale yet. The working templates are the other paid part.
Yes. Corporate training is delivered as an in-house workshop (half-day or full-day), a 2-hour executive seminar for boards and C-suite, or a custom white-labelled e-learning module. All formats are tailored to your sector, your AI systems, and your team's roles — see the corporate training page for scoping and pricing.
Start with the free Fundamentals course, then read the DORA overlap analysis: how DORA ICT third-party risk management applies to AI vendors, and how incident reporting interacts under both regimes. A dedicated financial-sector certification is in preparation.