Create Your Own Custom AI Assistant for Youth Work Training

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Explore practical tools for designing and training a personal AI assistant or chatbot that supports tasks in youth work and training.
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You will focus on designing your own Custom AI assistant for youth work or training. Through hands-on exploration, you will define its purpose, upload relevant materials, and set its tone, boundaries, and style.
The activity helps to understand how AI tools function, their benefits and limitations, and how they can be safely and creatively applied in non-formal education contexts.
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By completing this activity, you will:
Understand the difference between reactive, custom, and agentic AI.
Explore tools such as Mistral Agents, Perplexity Spaces, NotebookLM, and ChatGPT Custom GPTs.
Design, test, and refine a Custom AI assistant aligned with their youth work needs.
Gain practical insight into AI’s potential and boundaries in educational design.
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At first, let's explore what the types of Generative AI solutions are, what the differences between Custom AI and Generative AI are, and where you can learn more. Click on the link to open the presentation slides. 
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Some short guidance videos from Custom AI building platforms
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PRACTICE STEPS
Quick practice: Create your own Custom AI assistant using one of the suggested tools.
Define purpose – Identify a repetitive task in youth work/training your AI could support.
Add materials – Upload or link documents and open sources relevant to your task.
Set instructions – Clearly list what your AI should and should not do, and define its communication style.
Test and refine – Prompt your assistant, review its responses, and adjust instructions to improve performance.
Share your creation – Exchange your AI link with a peer and provide mutual feedback.
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You can download the Practice worksheet, find the link below. 
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This activity was created as a result of the training course “Power up your training with the generative AI” organised by the International Youth Work Trainers Guild.
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Activity is co-funded by the Erasmus+ programme.
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This badge recognises participants who have explored the use of generative AI tools and created their own Custom AI assistant to support youth work or training tasks.
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By designing and testing an AI with a defined purpose, materials, and style, earners have demonstrated curiosity, digital creativity, and an understanding of how to responsibly apply AI tools in education.
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Issuer: International Youth Work Trainers Guild

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International Youth Work Trainers Guild

Awero host dit platform en ontwikkelt het samen met toonaangevende educatieve organisaties. Het programma Erasmus+ van de Europese Unie heeft cofinanciering verleend voor de bouw van de eerste versie van dit platform. Neem contact op met support@awero.org.

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