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We finally have a definition—and it's still half the problem
The EU–OECD AI Literacy Framework, released 18 June 2026, is the most coherent curriculum structure of its kind — four domains, 19 competences, offline adaptations for under-resourced schools. It does not credential, fund teacher upskilling, or close the 9.7-million ICT specialist gap the EU's Digital Decade requires by 2030. Article 4 of the AI Act has obligated staff training since February 2025; the framework is guidance, not law, and the enforcement clock is already running.
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the EU keeps publishing the memo. it still hasn't built the credential.
Europe has the frameworks and four fresh sets of guidelines. What it still doesn't have, in operational form, is the credential in the middle of the stack — independently assessed, portable across all 27 states, the thing a vendor course maps to rather than competes with.
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