OpenAI Academy Brussels

Practical resources for EU policymakers
June 23, 2026 · Last updated on June 25, 2026
Welcome to the resource hub for OpenAI Academy x Forefront
Follow Along: Today’s Slides
Agenda
16:00-16:30 | Registration |
16:30-16:35 | Welcome remarks |
16:35-18:30 | Training + Q&A |
18:30-19:00 | Closing remarks + reception |
Whether you joined us in person or are exploring this on your own, this page is designed to help you:
- Get comfortable with ChatGPT for day‑to‑day work in Brussels
- Revisit examples from the live training
- Share practical resources with your team
- Keep learning long after the session ends
This series is part of OpenAI’s broader effort to help people use AI to solve hard problems, strengthen public institutions, and expand economic opportunity across the EU.
What is OpenAI Academy?
OpenAI Academy is our flagship education program to help people from all backgrounds learn to use AI to solve hard problems in their work and communities.
Through free in‑person events and online resources, we:
- Build AI literacy for non‑technical audiences
- Offer hands‑on workshops for beginners and advanced users
- Support mission‑driven organisations, schools, governments, and small businesses
- Create pathways from AI learning to real economic opportunity and public service impact
🎓 More on OpenAI Academy resources
Keep learning
Ready to go deeper after the event? Check out these resources to continue your AI learning journey:
- Upcoming Academy events.
- Codex for beginners - Codex is an AI agent you can delegate real work to. Learn how to get started with this webinar.
🤝 Stay Connected
Here are a few ways to keep the momentum going after today:
- Share this page with colleagues who couldn’t attend the training.
- Host a mini‑workshop in your office using the slides, prompts, and on‑demand videos.
- Connect with Forefront and OpenAI Academy about future sessions tailored to your section, committee, or staff cohort.
If you’re experimenting with ChatGPT in your office and develop a useful workflow, we’d love to hear about it. Your experience can help shape future trainings and resources for congressional staff across the country.
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Create a persuasive policy pitch for a policymaker preparing to brief colleagues and senior decision-makers on a proposal to strengthen public support for workforce development.Create a persuasive policy pitch for a policymaker preparing to brief colleagues and senior decision-makers on a proposal to strengthen public support for workforce development. Explain how the proposal could link vocational education and training providers with local employers through short-term, skills-focused partnerships; highlight the benefits for people, communities, and businesses; and identify areas of broad political appeal.Create a persuasive policy pitch for a policymaker preparing to brief colleagues and senior decision-makers on a proposal to strengthen public support for workforce development. Explain how the proposal could link vocational education and training providers with local employers through short-term, skills-focused partnerships; highlight the benefits for people, communities, and businesses; and identify areas of broad political appeal. Include a 60-second policy summary, a 3-slide briefing outline, and 3 key metrics decision-makers would want to see.Policy and Legislative Analysis
Analyze this EU infrastructure and economic-development spending dataset from 2019–2024 to assess how funding was distributed across Member States and NUTS regions. Identify the regions receiving the most and least funding per capita, highlight significant changes after major EU investment programmes such as NextGenerationEU and the Recovery and Resilience Facility, and flag geographic, rural–urban, cross-border, and core–periphery disparities.Create a bar chart of the top 15 NUTS regions by per-capita EU funding. Then simulate a 10% funding cut and estimate which regions would be most affected.Generate a one-page EU policy briefing with key takeaways, charts, and oversight questions for a Member of the European Parliament or national scrutiny committee.Committee and meeting preparation
I am advising EU policy makers on an upcoming discussion about **Europe’s role in the future of space policy and innovation**.
Can you prepare a short briefing memo with:
* Suggested questions* Likely expert answers* Follow-up questions* Brief expert biographies* Background on the issue
Please focus on how Europe can support space innovation, industrial competitiveness, international cooperation, and reliable access to space in the 21st century.Create a bibliography of sources and assign a "trust score" to eachCitizen and Stakeholder Engagement
Based on the uploaded policy paper, summarise the key points in plain language for EU policy makers. Highlight the main issues, stakeholders, policy options, and any decisions that need to be made.Based on the same document, analyse how the proposals align with EU priorities, existing legislation, and stakeholder interests using web search. Identify key opportunities, risks, gaps, and follow-up questions.Using the summary and analysis, draft a clear public-facing response for citizens, civil society, or industry stakeholders. Keep the tone accessible, constructive, and suitable for a European policy context. Ensure it is translated to FrenchCodex
Create a simple interactive dashboard as a @site to model European Union infrastructure and strategic investment funding allocations. Include the ability to upload actual funding data for real analysis.
The dashboard should:- Load a mock dataset representing EU infrastructure and investment allocations across areas such as: - Transport and mobility infrastructure - Clean energy and grid modernization - Water resilience and wastewater systems - Digital connectivity and broadband - Strategic manufacturing and industrial capacity- Allow the user to adjust funding percentages using sliders.- Display: - Total funding by category - Estimated project delivery time impacts, using reasonable hypothetical assumptions - European industrial capacity impact scores, using hypothetical but clearly explained assumptions - Optional cohesion or regional balance indicators, such as how funding affects less-developed, transition, and more-developed regions
Include the ability for users to upload actual EU, Member State, regional, or programme-level funding data for analysis. Support CSV uploads at minimum.
Use EU-relevant terminology throughout the dashboard, such as:- EU funding allocations- Member States- Cohesion Policy- Recovery and Resilience Facility- Connecting Europe Facility- European Green Deal- TEN-T- REPowerEU- Digital Decade- Strategic Technologies for Europe Platform
The dashboard should include clear labels, explanatory text, and code comments so a non-technical policy staffer can understand how the model works and what assumptions are being used.
Make clear that all delivery-time impacts, industrial capacity scores, and regional balance metrics are simplified hypothetical estimates unless real data is uploaded.Update the design to follow these conventions. The Academy series is an extension of the EU SME Accelerator Series: our overarching objective with the Accelerator is to contribute to bridging the adoption gap that has widened between small and large businesses, and make AI a source of prosperity and progress for businesses of all sizes. Alongside the in-person sessions, we also roll out online modules on the OpenAI Academy with the ambition to support more than 20,000 European SMEs over the year.
AI is moving quickly, but the goal of this work is steady: give public servants better tools to serve the public, strengthen oversight, and support an economy where more people can benefit from innovation.
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