AI for small public affairs teams
A self-paced run through AI for people who do policy, advocacy and communications on Europe. It starts with a baseline of how you work today, moves through prompting, research, accuracy, workflows and automations, and ends with writing an AI policy for your organisation.
Small teams and one-person functions. No prior AI experience assumed, and nothing here needs a budget.
- Day 1AI bootcamp for EU affairs, day 1: your baseline and your first prompts
A practical first lesson for EU affairs teams: establish your AI baseline, spot repetitive work, and learn how role, audience and missing context shape the answers a model gives you.
Beginner · 17 min read
- Day 2AI bootcamp for EU affairs, day 2: your AI dictionary
A practical dictionary for EU affairs teams: understand narrow AI, general AI, machine learning, generative AI, LLMs, training data, bias and why prediction is the word that matters.
Beginner · 20 min read
- Day 3AI bootcamp for EU affairs, day 3: how AI reasons, and which model to pick
Day 2 explained prediction. Day 3 turns that into a practical decision: which model should you use, how much reasoning should the task get, and how much verification does the answer require?
Beginner · 17 min read
- Day 4AI bootcamp for EU affairs, day 4: stop theorising and start building
Build the first half of a real EU advocacy campaign: establish your evidence base, brief your AI workspace, research the issue, define your public narrative, map stakeholders and turn the strategy into clear public-facing messages.
Practitioner · 22 min read
- Day 5AI bootcamp for EU affairs, day 5: bring your campaign to life
Turn the approved work from day 4 into a controlled campaign-production workflow: visual concepts, short-form video, a seven-day content plan, measurement and multilingual adaptation, with human review before anything goes live.
Practitioner · 17 min read
- Day 6Which AI tool is best for an EU public affairs team?
The honest answer is that it depends on you. Here is the map of what is on the market, six routes with their pros and cons, and a test you can run on your own work before you sign anything.
Beginner · 16 min read
- Day 7AI bootcamp for EU affairs, day 7: create better images with AI
Image generation is easy now. The brief is the skill. Here is the 2026 landscape, five ingredients that work in almost any tool, and the checks a campaign owes its audience before publishing.
Beginner · 19 min read
- Day 8AI bootcamp for EU affairs, day 8: from prompts to agents
The next step is a system that can do the work again tomorrow. What an agent is, the four parts every useful one needs, and how to design a monitoring agent you can actually trust.
Practitioner · 18 min read
- Day 9AI bootcamp for EU affairs, day 9: projects before agents
Four platforms, one method. How to build your first working assistant in Microsoft 365 Copilot, Claude, Mistral and ChatGPT, and why the project comes before the agent.
Practitioner · 17 min read
- Day 10AI bootcamp for EU affairs, day 10: build the agent, block by block
One agent, five layers. Start with a sentence, finish with an assistant that explains the AI Act to four different audiences and tells you when it is unsure.
Practitioner · 19 min read