Erasmus+ Blended Intensive Program · May 2026
When 35 future teachers from eight European universities spent a month studying AI and well-being together, they didn't just talk about AI pedagogy — they built it. Each team designed and shipped their own AI agent inside BoodleBox, turning a single shared course into a hands-on, cross-border collaboration that spanned six countries and two time zones.
Jyväskylä's Innovative Learning Environments research group runs AI Pedagogy and Well-being, a monthlong Erasmus+ Blended Intensive Program built to help future educators explore how AI can support planetary, digital, creative, and socioeconomic well-being in the classroom. The May 2026 cohort brought together 35 students, mostly trainee teachers, from JYU and seven partner universities in Hungary, Austria, Romania, Latvia, Italy, and Spain, taught by a team led by Kati Clements, Samuel Madtha, and Orsolya Tuba at JYU alongside Julie Lindsay of the University of Southern Queensland.
Julie and Samuel built AINO, a custom collaborative agent that connected conversations across institutions and time zones and kept the course's well-being themes woven through group work, described by the team as an agent that "works with you, not for you."
For their capstone, student teams designed and built their own AI agents to solve a real education problem, then presented them in person on the program's final day. Projects included GrowthFlow, an AI learning partner; TWI (Teaching with Intelligence); EduBunny; and Collab-Buddy, among seven agents built across the cohort.
"We had such a good week using BoodleBox. Everyone loved it."
— Julie Lindsay, Senior Consultant, University of Southern Queensland
"I loved the new experience: collaboration among a team of humans and several AI chatbots at once. It gave me food for thought."
— Program participant, JYU Blended Intensive Program
Feedback from the cohort was strongly positive, and BoodleBox is now the reference point for how Julie Lindsay and JYU talk about AI in the classroom to their wider academic networks. The program adds to a growing body of published research from Julie Lindsay on cross-border collaborative learning with BoodleBox, and the team is already looking at how to extend the model to future Blended Intensive Programs.
JYU course recap →
University of Jyväskylä's official writeup of the program
Student portfolio (Padlet) →
Team photos and the AI agents students built in BoodleBox
Zyanya Bejarano | Global GTM Leader, BoodleBox
Zyanya Bejarano leads global go-to-market strategy at BoodleBox, with a focus on building the international partnerships that bring collaborative AI to universities and business schools around the world. A former General Manager at Instructure and a Stanford University graduate, she spends much of her time on the ground with educators — from the AI Pedagogy and Well-being cohort in Jyväskylä to business school leaders at conferences like the AMBA & BGA Global Deans Conference — listening to how different institutions and cultures are approaching AI adoption on their own terms. Her work centers on a simple belief: the best answers come from building alongside institutions, not handing them one.
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