Why Italian universities need skills backed by evidence — now

1. The EU AI Act high-risk regime lands on employment AI in December 2027

Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, the AI Act, classifies AI systems used to evaluate candidates for employment as high-risk (Annex III, point 4). Those obligations apply from 2 December 2027, deferred by Regulation (EU) 2026/1744. Among the duties:

• Transparency on the system's purpose, inputs, and limitations
• Human oversight in place, with authority to override
• Traceability / audit logs of decisions
• Right to explanation for affected individuals (Art. 86)

The Act gives distinct duties to the provider of a system and to the institution that uses it, including third-party portals the career service recommends. Which ones fall on you is for your DPO to establish against the text, not for a vendor.

2. What ANVUR cycles ask for: documented stage outcomes, traceable by programme

In periodic accreditation reviews, ANVUR also looks at employment outcomes and internships, programme by programme. That is where the documentation usually falls short:

• Stale placement data: end-of-year surveys arrive months after the facts
• Skills alignment: hard to show without knowing which skills students have demonstrated
• Stage outcomes documentation — paper conventions and email threads are slow to reconstruct at review time

In InTransparency, the Skills Intelligence view shows gap and alignment indices per degree programme, and how they move over time.

3. Reputation is the long-term dividend

When your staff confirm an internship, the confirmation carries the university's name. The student can export it as a Europass/EDCI credential in JSON-LD, signed by InTransparency and verifiable by anyone against our public key: your institution's name travels with the evidence.

What to do in the next 30 days

1. List the matching tools you use or recommend, and ask each vendor for its documentation: purpose, inputs, weights, and how a candidate obtains an explanation.
2. Book a conversation to scope a pilot.