AI Literate Project Publishes Four National Roundtable Reports on Generative AI in Higher Education
The AI Literate project has published four Focus Group and Roundtable Reports examining how the higher education community perceives and experiences generative artificial intelligence (GenAI).
Conducted between April and May 2026 at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (Italy), Lusófona University (Portugal), Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (Poland), and Algebra Bernays University (Croatia), the four national roundtables brought together professors, researchers, institutional leaders, students, and — in the Polish case — national policy advisors, to discuss knowledge production, critical thinking, and institutional responses to AI in higher education.
Each session followed a shared discussion template developed by the consortium, addressing four common domains: knowledge production and expert authority, AI literacy and pedagogy, institutional support, and disinformation and verification. Despite being conducted independently, in four languages and across different institutional cultures, the four conversations converge on a consistent message: generative AI is not the central problem in higher education — it is a magnifying glass held up to problems that already existed. All four groups reject both techno-utopian and prohibitionist framings, calling instead for redesigned assessment, stronger critical-verification skills, and shared institutional responsibility.
The reports will feed into the AI Literate project's forthcoming policy guidelines for higher education, and — in Croatia's case — directly into the country's National Plan for the Development of Artificial Intelligence, currently in public consultation.
All four reports are now available to read in full.