agora academy — practical AI for civic work

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Tap the word — or pick below — and the academy takes you there. Courses by practitioners, sourced like journalism, free to start. Built in Europe for the people doing civic work.

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§ 01 — open nowTwo courses, open. Start today.

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Course · Democratic resilience

Under attack: verify fast, respond.

When a fake hits your campaign, the first hour decides the damage. You leave with a 15-minute verification workflow and a first-hour response playbook — tested against how attacks actually run in 2026.

Intermediate3h16 lessonsEN

  • 01Welcome — the one skill
  • 02How attacks work in 2026
  • 03The three traps
  • + 13 more lessons

Taught by practitioners of the Agora AI Group — people doing advocacy and verification work.

Free Start free →
Course · Life & work

The AI-powered CV: win the European job market.

Hiring runs through machines before people. You leave with an ATS-proof CV, a cover letter, and a LinkedIn profile that fit how hiring in Europe really works.

Beginner-friendly5h16 lessonsEN

  • 01Welcome
  • 02How hiring works
  • 03What is an ATS — the machine that reads first
  • + 13 more lessons

Taught by practitioners of the Agora AI Group — people who work with hiring and AI tools daily.

Free Start free →

§ 02 — the open curriculumThe whole ladder, in public.

Layer 01

Foundations — the ground.

Information skills everyone starts with: prompt well, check everything, protect people’s data.

Free · self-paced

think with the machine, keep your judgement

Beginner · ~3h

Prompt, verify, and know when not to trust the model.

in build

spot the fake

Beginner · ~2h

The tells, the checks, and verify-before-you-share.

in build

your data, your rules

Beginner · ~90m

Use AI without leaking the people you’re responsible for.

in build

Layer 02

Professional — the structures.

Specialisations for the people who run grants, campaigns, and resilience work.

From €45 · self-paced

win the grant, faster

Intermediate · ~4h

From call to submission with your organisation’s voice intact.

in build

campaigns that move people

Intermediate · ~4h

Message testing and content at volume — still human.

in build

disinformation, answered.

Intermediate · 3h · 16 lessons

This one is built — it’s the Under Attack course above.

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Layer 03

Leadership — the beacons.

Live sessions for the people who decide how their organisation adopts AI.

Live cohorts · B2B

make your team AI-ready

Live cohort · ~6h

A working AI plan for your organisation — the flagship workshop below.

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govern it before it governs you

Live · ~4h

The EU AI Act and its Article 4 literacy duty, in plain language.

in build

buy back your team’s time

Live · half-day

Find the repeated work, automate it responsibly, measure the hours back.

in build

§ 03 — the live roomTwo pilots. One room. Real time.

Live workshop · Paid pilot

AI for NGO & advocacy leaders.

Bring one real problem; leave with it solved — plus a policy, a toolkit, and a training plan your whole team can run.

Online · ~6h · capped small for live feedback

Next cohort forming — autumn 2026

From €120 · B2B day rates Join the list →
Live workshop · Community pilot

AI for life, work & civic action.

Everyday AI that closes the gap — letters, forms, translation, CVs, finding work or a course in a new country.

Online · live session · free / grant-funded

Next cohort forming — autumn 2026

Free Save a seat →

Real dates, real seat caps, no countdown theatre. Workshops are capped so everyone gets live feedback — when a cohort is full, you roll to the next one.

§ 04 — how we teachPremium means honest.

Practitioners, not presenters.

Every course is built and taught by people who do the work — advocacy, verification, campaigning, product, AI. And the faculty grows with the square: practitioners join to teach what they practise.

Every lesson cites its sources.

Claims link to primary sources, the way our Journal does. If we can’t verify it, we don’t teach it.

Built for real circumstances.

Short lessons, plain language, no jargon walls. Designed for stressed schedules and for learners working in a second or third language.

Accessible by law and by choice.

WCAG 2.2 AA across pages and course content — keyboard navigation, contrast, captions. The square is for everyone or it isn’t a square.

§ 05 — beyond the coursesLearning is half the hub. Reading is the other.

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Teach us what you need.

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The square decides what gets built next. Tell us the skill your team or community is missing — the most-requested topics become courses.

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Prices shown are the pilot’s indicative posture and may change as the academy grows. Free courses stay free for the community they were built for.