EN DE
Book a 30-minute call

EU AI ACT · ARTICLE 4

AI literacy training under Article 4 of the EU AI Act

90 minutes for your team, 299 € for up to 10 participants. We explain what the EU AI Act* has required of you since February 2025, what the Digital Omnibus* changed in July 2026 — and give you the record the regulator will ask for.

* Term explanations at the end of the page

Why now

Since August 2026 there is someone who can ask.

The AI literacy obligation has applied since 2 February 2025. What is new is not the obligation — it is the supervision.

  1. 2 February 2025

    Article 4 of the EU AI Act* becomes applicable. Anyone deploying AI must take measures for the AI literacy of their staff — regardless of company size or risk class.

  2. 29 July 2026

    The KI-MIG* makes the Bundesnetzagentur Germany’s market surveillance authority — including a body where any person can file a complaint.

  3. 2 August 2026

    Supervision and enforcement have started. The question is not „do you hold a certificate", but „which measures have you taken".

Plain speaking

What the Digital Omnibus* changed — and what it did not.

In July 2026 the press reported that the EU had scrapped its AI rules. That is not what happened. We would rather tell you straight away what actually applies.

Changed

  • The wording of Article 4 is milder: instead of „ensure a sufficient level of AI literacy" it has read „support the development of AI literacy" since 27 July 2026.
  • The obligations for high-risk systems were deferred — from August 2026 to December 2027 and August 2028 respectively.

Unchanged

  • The obligation stands. You must be able to show which measures you have taken.
  • Prohibitions, GPAI* duties and the transparency obligations under Article 50* continue to apply.
  • Supervision is running — since 2 August 2026.

Content

Six modules, 90 minutes.

Not a ninety-minute lecture. Roughly 60 percent knowledge, 30 percent examples and discussion, 10 percent knowledge check.

  1. 01

    AI fundamentals

    What separates AI, machine learning and language models — and why hallucinations are not a bug that will eventually be fixed. With a live demo.

  2. 02

    EU AI Act — what affects you

    Roles, risk classes, deadlines. Where your company stands as a deployer and which duties follow from that.

  3. 03

    Working with AI in practice

    What makes a usable prompt, how to spot hallucinations, and when not to use AI at all.

  4. 04

    Data protection and confidentiality

    Which data may go into which tool. Four data classes, a rule-of-thumb matrix, three worked examples from everyday work.

  5. 05

    Your own rules

    Your approved tool list, your reporting paths, your contacts. This part is filled in with you before each session.

  6. 06

    Knowledge check and close

    Eleven questions, discussed together. Followed by the attendance record.

Format

What you book — and what it costs you.

Duration
90 minutes in one block
Delivery
On site with you, online or hybrid
Group size
Up to 10 participants included
Language
German
Your effort
One preparatory call and your tool list. That is all we need.
You receive
An attendance record per person and a participant list for your files

Who delivers it

Dr. Sven von Känel

30 years in IT, delivering AI projects for mid-sized companies since 2023. Managing director of evanto media GmbH, building software for the German Mittelstand since 1997.

Article 4 requires measures that fit the context. Whoever trains should know that context — we build the systems we talk about.

The record

An attendance record — explicitly not a certificate.

The EU AI Act requires no certificate, no external examination and no measurement of your employees knowledge. What the AI Office* recommends is an internal record of the measures taken. That is exactly what you get: a signed confirmation per person with date, contents and trainer qualification, plus a participant list.

We deliberately avoid calling it a certificate. A document that promises more than it is will not help you when it matters.

View a sample (PDF, German)

Deep dives

Once the basics are in place, it continues by role.

The core training covers everyone. For individual roles we offer deep dives — each on request.

  • Leadership

    Governance responsibility, liability, works council involvement, vendor strategy.

  • Power users

    Advanced prompting, RAG fundamentals, the multiplier role.

  • Engineering

    Prompt injection, IP risk in AI-generated code, secret management, RAG* permissions.

  • HR and recruiting

    High-risk duties under Annex III*, bias audits, section 95 BetrVG*.

What comes after

The training is the start, not the goal.

A trained workforce without rules does not get you far. If you want to carry on, these are the next steps — individually or as a package.

  • AI inventory

    Which AI is actually running at your company? Including the features quietly switched on inside software you already own.

  • AI policy and approved tool list

    Binding rules your people will actually read. Approved, restricted, not permitted.

  • Record-keeping

    So the regulator question can be answered without anyone searching for three days.

  • CompanyWizard

    Our AI platform with EU hosting, for when confidential content must not go into any external tool.

See CompanyWizard

Request

Request the training

Tell us briefly how many people need training and whether you prefer on site or online. We will come back with a proposed date.

Request training Book a 30-minute call

For reference

The terms marked with *

Regulation comes with acronyms. Here they are, spelled out once.

EU AI Act
Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 on artificial intelligence. It applies directly in every EU member state and has been entering into force in stages since August 2024.
Article 4
The article of the EU AI Act that obliges companies to take measures for the AI literacy of their staff. Applicable since 2 February 2025.
Article 50
Transparency duties under the EU AI Act: disclosing AI in a dialogue and labelling AI-generated content. Applicable since 2 August 2026.
Article 99
The penalty catalogue of the EU AI Act. It sets out which breaches carry fines — Article 4 is not among them.
Digital Omnibus
An EU package amending several digital laws, in force since 27 July 2026. It softened the wording of Article 4 and deferred the high-risk deadlines.
KI-MIG
Gesetz über die Marktüberwachung und Innovationsförderung für Künstliche Intelligenz — the German law implementing the EU AI Act, in force since 29 July 2026. It makes the Bundesnetzagentur the competent supervisory authority.
AI Office
The European Commission AI Office. It publishes guidance on the EU AI Act, including the questions and answers on AI literacy.
GPAI
General purpose AI — models such as GPT, Claude or Gemini. Their providers have had separate obligations since 2 August 2025.
Annex III
The list of high-risk applications in the EU AI Act, covering areas such as recruitment, credit scoring, biometrics and educational assessment.
BetrVG
Betriebsverfassungsgesetz, the German works constitution act. Section 95 governs selection guidelines and becomes relevant as soon as AI takes part in personnel decisions.
RAG
Retrieval-augmented generation. A method where a language model draws on your own company documents instead of answering from its training alone.

This page reflects the legal position as of 16 September 2026 and is not legal advice.