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NextGen Workforce — Upskilling Kosovo's Youth (84% Women) for the AI Era

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Women in Tech Kosovo and Luxembourg's development agency LuxDev ran an AI/digital-skills programme in which 77 young Kosovars (65 women) completed training in AI, programming and cybersecurity, building AI-driven websites before a study visit to Luxembourg.

77 people
Participants completing training
65 people
Of whom women
84 %
Share of women among graduates
5 months
Extension of wider Skills for Sustainable Jobs project
NextGen Workforce — Upskilling Kosovo's Youth (84% Women) for the AI Era

Details

Maturity
Pilot
Promoter
Women in Tech Kosovo (WiT Kosovo) & LuxDev (Luxembourg Agency for Development Cooperation)
Period
2024–2025
Keywords
vocational training, digital skills, gender equality, AI literacy

Context

NextGen Workforce: Upskilling for the AI Era is a module of the Luxembourg-financed 'Skills for Sustainable Jobs in Kosovo' project, implemented by LuxDev since August 2024 and delivered by the NGO Women in Tech Kosovo. It ran for about eight months to April 2025, training young Kosovars in artificial intelligence, digital transformation, cybersecurity, finance, soft skills and programming.

Objectives

The programme explicitly targeted women's participation in line with Kosovo's national digital and gender-equality strategies, aiming to build practical AI and digital skills among young Kosovars, many coding for the first time.

Activities

As a capstone, trainees spent three days building AI-driven personal web pages and pitched business ideas to a 'Shark Tank'-style panel. Winners joined a study visit to Luxembourg in April 2025, hosted by the University of Luxembourg's Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust and the National Centre for Continuous Professional Training.

Results

A total of 77 participants completed the training, 65 of them women (84%). Citing 'impressive results', LuxDev extended the wider Skills for Sustainable Jobs project by five months, through October 2025, and the European Commission's Digital Skills & Jobs Platform independently lists the broader project as a good practice.

Conclusions

The main limitation is scale: the cohort covered dozens, not thousands, of participants, and no standardised skills assessment or post-programme employment tracking was published beyond completion counts and the capstone deliverables.

Implementation
Indicative cost
Low (< €50k) — Bilateral development-aid funded module within the wider Luxembourg-financed Skills for Sustainable Jobs in Kosovo project.
Time to results
Short (< 1 year) — Ran for about eight months, August 2024 to April 2025; the wider project was subsequently extended by five months to October 2025.
Staffing & skills
LuxDev (Luxembourg Agency for Development Cooperation), Women in Tech Kosovo (WiT Kosovo), delivery NGO, University of Luxembourg Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT), National Centre for Continuous Professional Training (CNFPC)

Conditions for success

  • Explicit alignment with Kosovo's national digital and gender-equality strategies
  • Capstone project with a tangible deliverable (AI-driven personal websites) and a pitch panel for motivation
  • Study-visit incentive to Luxembourg for top-performing participants

Common failure modes

  • Small cohort scale (dozens, not thousands, of participants)
  • No standardised skills assessment or post-programme employment tracking published

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