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AI Youth Busines Center

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About

AI YOUTH BUSINESS CENTER

From Learning AI to Proving What You Can Do With It

AI Youth Business Center (AI YBC) is a new-generation platform designed to bridge the gap between young people, artificial intelligence and the real economy.

It is not another online course platform.
It is not a job board.
It is not a social network.

It is a practical AI ecosystem where young people learn, apply and prove their capabilities by solving real business challenges.

The Problem

AI is becoming accessible to everyone, but access to AI does not automatically create employable skills.

Young people can complete courses, collect certificates and experiment with AI — yet companies still struggle to answer a simple question:

“What can this person actually do?”

At the same time, companies, cities and institutions have real problems that could be explored by a new generation of digitally and AI-enabled talent.

AI YBC connects these two worlds.

The Concept

A young person aged 15–30 enters the platform and can:

LEARN → APPLY → SOLVE → PROVE → CONNECT → GET OPPORTUNITIES

Instead of learning AI only through theoretical content, users work on practical challenges:

  • analyse a business problem

  • use AI tools to develop a solution

  • build a prototype or business concept

  • receive feedback from mentors

  • document the result in their Skill Passport

  • become visible to companies looking for specific capabilities

The result is not simply a certificate.

The result is evidence of what the person has actually done.

The AI Layer

AI is not an additional feature of the platform.

AI is the engine of the experience.

The platform can provide:

  • AI Mentor — personalized guidance throughout the learning and problem-solving process

  • Business Plan AI — step-by-step development of an idea into a structured business plan

  • Challenge Assistant — helps users understand and approach real business challenges

  • Skill Passport — AI-assisted representation of demonstrated skills and completed projects

  • Opportunity Matching — matching young people with jobs, internships, mentors and business opportunities

  • Grant Matcher — identifies potentially relevant grants and funding opportunities

  • AI-powered assessment — evaluates the process, solution and demonstrated competencies

  • Company Challenge Engine — allows companies to publish real problems and identify promising talent

What Makes AI YBC Different

Traditional education measures:

“Did you complete the course?”

AI YBC measures:

“What did you actually create?”

Traditional recruitment asks:

“What certificates do you have?”

AI YBC can demonstrate:

“Here are the problems I solved, the solutions I created and the skills I demonstrated.”

Traditional youth programmes often end when the programme ends.

AI YBC is designed as a continuous ecosystem connecting learning, business, employment and entrepreneurship.

The Bigger Opportunity

AI YBC can become a bridge between four groups:

YOUTH

Skills, AI literacy, projects, mentorship, internships, jobs and entrepreneurship.

COMPANIES

Real challenges, innovation, talent discovery and future workforce development.

CITIES & INSTITUTIONS

Youth programmes, digital transformation, employment initiatives and measurable impact.

TECHNOLOGY PARTNERS

Real-world AI adoption, visibility, innovation and access to a growing user ecosystem.

A Potential Deep4All Role

Deep4All could participate in several layers:

1. AI Technology Partner
Providing AI capabilities and infrastructure for selected platform functions.

2. AI Challenge Partner
Creating real-world AI challenges for young people.

3. Innovation Partner
Co-developing new AI-powered functionality for the platform.

4. Talent & Ecosystem Partner
Identifying promising AI talent through demonstrated projects rather than traditional CVs.

5. Regional Expansion Partner
Supporting deployment of AI YBC across markets, institutions and youth programmes.

The Vision

Imagine a 17-year-old student who has never worked for a technology company.

Instead of asking:

“What experience do you have?”

AI YBC can show:

12 completed challenges.
7 AI-assisted projects.
3 business concepts.
4 mentor evaluations.
Demonstrated skills in research, automation, AI prompting, business analysis and problem solving.

That is a fundamentally different way of demonstrating talent.

Digital Europe Potential

AI YBC can serve as a scalable digital use case within a Digital Europe ecosystem, particularly where projects combine:

  • Artificial Intelligence

  • digital skills

  • SME innovation

  • youth employability

  • entrepreneurship

  • digital transformation

  • public-private cooperation

  • cross-border scalability

The platform is designed from the beginning to be multi-country, multilingual and partner-driven.

European Areas

Areas of activity

AI/Cloud-to-edge

Support to the secretariat for the Alliance on Processors and Semiconductor Technologies (CLOSED)

Representatives

Mićo Kurtuma

AI Business Development Manager

AI Youth Busines Center

Marketplace (1)

  • Product

    AI Youth Business Center

    AI-powered platform connecting youth, companies and real business challenges. Seeking European AI, technology and ecosystem partners for co-development, pilots and scalable deployment.

    • ICT
    • Distribution Partner
    Author

    Mićo Kurtuma

    AI Business Development Manager at AI Youth Busines Center

    Belgrade, Serbia