How it came about
Students leaving vocational education are often good at the work and unprepared for the twenty minutes that decide whether they get to do it. Interview practice needs a person who knows the trade, has time, and is willing to be honest — and there are never enough of those to go round.
Four organisations across Portugal, France and Serbia set out to see whether a language model could take some of that load: not to replace the teacher, but to give every student somewhere to fail safely as often as they want. Teachers wrote the questions and the model answers for their own trades. The software's job is only to ask, to listen, and to compare what it hears against what the teacher wrote.
It ran as an Erasmus+ small-scale partnership from March 2025 to December 2026, with a measured pilot in three schools.
