## 5 Results
### Study of Students  
**Student profile. ** The study's questionnaire for IT students, masters, and alumni in information systems and technologies was filled out by 1052 people in total, showing a great interest in AAI topics within the student population. The first group of three questions in the survey (questions 1-3) was of a general purpose, intended to find out the basic information about the survey respondents--their nationality, age, and student status. As expected, students mostly originated from the participant countries of the project: Poland at 13.88%, Serbia at 15.11%, Bulgaria at 34.98%, Montenegro at 19.68%, and Slovakia at 10.55%. There were also 61 people (5.8%) with other nationalities. The respondents were, to a large majority, younger than 24 years --72.34%--and still students--89.45% (64.83% in their first level of studies and 24.62% in their second level of studies). Only 11.55% were graduates. **Students' educational background on AAI. ** The students were asked to state what educational degree they were learning for. Most of the respondents were in bachelor's studies at 72.81% or master's studies at 22.15% (71.96% in the first two years of studies) with a specialization in some variations in the field of IT (information technology, 28.69%, and computer science, 25.82%). When asked whether they knew of any applied artificial intelligence courses offered at their university, the large majority of the students chose the answers no (54.03%) and yes, I know only a few (39.25%), while only 6.72% chose the answer yes, I know a lot of them. The activities most preferred by the students to extend their knowledge of AAI were projects (59.22%), lectures (44.49%), and laboratories (38.21%). Creating a website to showcase findings in AAI research conducted by local university staff was important or very important for almost 82% of the respondents. One other significant inquiry was whether the students were acquainted with AAI matters, about which only 9.7% answered no, I have not heard about it, and I am not interested in such access. At the end of this section of the questions, the students were asked whether they would like to take part in AAI courses, and a large majority (90.02%) answered neutrally or positively (neutral --35.36%, somewhat agree --29.47%, and agree --25.19%). There were questions related to the AAI context and previous courses in the AAI area. Only 212 respondents (20.15%) had already participated in classes based on AAI. Most of the students showed an interest in collecting data from different sources (web, social networks, etc.) (44.3%) or doing AAI analytics/machine learning (47.34%). **The working experience of the students. ** Almost half of the surveyed students were currently working at 519/1052 (49.33%), meaning that a large number of them were both studying and working. The rest of the questions in this section aimed to gather information on the duration and nature of the respondents' employment. Out of 519 workers, 347 worked in the private sector, 157 in the public sector, and 11 at non-profit organizations. As expected (the majority of the respondents were younger than 24 years), the surveyed students mostly had less than 3 years of experience (356 out of 519 employed), and they worked in the IT industry (311 out of 519). The employees in the IT industry answered a group of questions (20-23). These questions were formulated in such a way as to better describe the job position, requirements, and experience of the IT workers. The survey showed that most of the IT workers worked as software developers (17.4%), in support (4.75%), as administrators (3.61%), and in network construction and services (3.33%). More than half of the IT workers stated that, for an appointment to their position, a bachelor's diploma was needed. Out of 1052 respondents in total, only 136 had some experience with work in the AAI field, and they used it in their work. **Competencies reported by IT students.