PATH

Personalized AI Tool for eThical Career Guidance – a Path to Follow

Discover and shape your future! Explore the forefront of ethical AI-powered career guidance with the PATH initiative, designed to support informed, inclusive, and future-ready academic and professional decisions. 

The PATH project develops an ethical AI-powered career guidance prototype and methodological framework, crafting personalised and data-driven guidance resources that support students and academic communities in navigating academic pathways and professional opportunities aligned with their skills, values, and aspirations. 

Beyond traditional career counselling, PATH’s AI-driven and ethically grounded guidance mechanisms are designed to empower users to build relevant competencies, make informed choices, and prepare for sustainable employability and lifelong learning in a rapidly evolving labour market. 

Join us on this journey into the future of career guidance, where ethics, innovation, and European collaboration converge to transform how academic and professional pathways are designed. 

The PATH Initiative and the European Higher Education Career Guidance Ecosystem

The University of Seville, together with Université Côte d’Azur, the University of Genova, the Technical University of Košice, MCI | The Entrepreneurial School®, and Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences, are jointly developing an innovative ethical AI-powered career guidance prototype and conceptual platform to strengthen and enhance academic and career guidance services within the framework of the Erasmus+ KA220-HED Cooperation Partnerships in Higher Education programme.

The ethical AI-powered career guidance experience is a digital and personalised guidance activity that connects students and academic communities in new and innovative ways, supporting informed decision-making across academic pathways and professional development within European higher education.

The PATH project and its prototype play an important role in facilitating ethical, inclusive, and future-oriented career guidance, while promoting sustainable collaboration between European higher education institutions and reinforcing trust in the responsible use of AI in guidance services.

 

 

PATH Objectives

1 - Bridging Education and Employment

Enhance Academic-Professional Integration Across the Ulysseus Alliance 

Increase the career relevance and effectiveness of guidance services across Ulysseus partner universities by strengthening the alignment between graduate competencies and market demands. This aims to secure better employment outcomes for alumni.

 

2 - Empowering Informed Career Choices

Facilitate Informed Decision-Making and Vocational Satisfaction 

Provide students with an objective self-assessment platform that clearly identifies their strengths, weaknesses, interests, and capabilities, offering personalized academic and professional development pathways for informed vocational choices. 

3 - Advancing Ethical Human-Centred AI

Establish Ethical and Educational Use of AI in Career Guidance

Design AI functionalities that augment the student’s capacity for personal expression in application materials (CVs, cover letters), actively preventing the generation of generic or standardized content and ensuring the student’s unique personality and profile are maintained (Human-Enhanced AI). 

 

Milestones

Feb 25

PATH Kick-off meeting 

The PATH Kick-off meeting was held virtually on 25 February 2025, officially launching the project. Representatives from all six partner institutions participated. The key objectives were to establish the project’s structure, communication channels, and administrative procedures, and to define the common vision and implementation plan for developing the ethical AI-powered tool. 

 

Nov 25

PATH Progress meeting 

This was the project’s first in-person technical meeting, where representatives from all partner universities met on 14 November 2025 at the Université Côte d’Azur in Nice. The purpose was to review the first design phase of the PATH prototype, coordinate the next steps, and refine the prototype’s architecture with the goal of finalizing the design by the end of the year. The meeting contributes to strengthening the alliance’s capacity to design innovative and ethical solutions for academic and career guidance. 

About PATH

PATH Funding

PATH – Personalised AI Tool for eThical career guidance is a project designed to strengthen academic and career guidance services through the development and validation of an ethical AI-powered tool and prototype and serves as a Cooperation Partnership in Higher Education within the Erasmus+ programme, supporting innovation and collaboration across European universities. 

PATH has received funding from the European Union’s Erasmus+ programme under the KA220-HED – Cooperation Partnerships in Higher Education action. Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are, however, those of the authors only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them. 

 

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