The Age-Friendly AI initiative has been awarded the Best Long Paper Award at edu4AI 2025, held during ECAI in Bologna. The project team, consisting of Paula Kelly, Emma Clarke, Patricia Lucha Farina, Damon Berry, Mayank Parmar, Laura Grehan, Cara Greene, Fatima Badmos, Peterson Jean, Dympna O’Sullivan and Elizabeth Darnell, was recognised for the paper “Age-Friendly AI: Ireland’s National AI Literacy Programme for Older Adults”.
The programme committee praised the work for its clarity, methodological strength and clear potential to boost AI awareness in educational settings, noting it earned the highest overall evaluation score among long-paper submissions.
The paper outlines a nationwide initiative that will help 60,000 older adults in Ireland to better understand AI. Early findings highlight the strong interest in how AI can support independence, healthcare and social connection, alongside concerns about privacy, trust and bias. The paper discusses how these insights will guide the development of an accessible, community-delivered literacy programme for older adults.
The paper is available here and the proceedings from the workshop are available here.
