Wallonia operates the DigitalWallonia4.ai programme with approximately EUR 18 million per year, focused on accelerating AI adoption. The programme covers awareness, AI adoption in organisations, digital skills enhancement, and ecosystem support. Alongside this, the ARIAC (Applications and Research for Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence in the Walloon Community) project, running 2021-2026 with EUR 32 million, finances 50 PhDs across four strategic AI research orientations through the TRAIL consortium of five universities and four research centres.
Le Forem, the Walloon public employment service, delivered approximately 496,063 hours of training in 2024 through training vouchers, including digital and AI-related courses.
Who it affects: Walloon enterprises seeking AI adoption support; PhD researchers in AI; workers accessing Forem training.
What is notably missing: No binding AI school curriculum at the regional level. The training is driven by programme funding, not legal employer obligation. No civil servant AI training mandate has been identified for Wallonia specifically.