APRIL x ACE IT Scotland Collaboration
APRIL partnered with local Edinburgh charity, ACE IT, to deliver an intergenerational learning experience on Artificial Intelligence (AI) through a series of workshops.
This initiative combined ACE IT’s mission to promote digital inclusion among learners over 50 and APRIL’s outreach commitment in supporting new generations of AI users.
The session welcomed 22 learners from ACE IT who were paired up with 22 researchers from APRIL, including our Google DeepMind Research Ready interns. Across the two sessions, learners engaged in hands-on activities and discussions exploring how AI can be used to tackle loneliness, enhance accessibility, and support daily living. Learners were also paired up with an intern or early in career researcher to receive a one-to-one personalised mentoring session on how AI tools can benefit their individual needs. The programme aimed to demystify AI to older learners and highlight it’s practical, human-centred applications.
The workshops attracted media attention and was broadcasted on STV News, see clip below:
These sessions then went on to inspire one of the sessions APRIL ran at the Edinburgh Science Festival in 2026.
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