AI for Research and Academia

A premium, practical, and rigorously honest course on using artificial intelligence across the entire academic research lifecycle in 2026 — for graduate students, PhD candidates, postdocs, faculty, and independent researchers. You will learn to use AI as a scholarly co-pilot: discovering and synthesizing literature, taking smart notes, structuring papers, sharpening academic writing (especially for non-native English speakers), summarizing dense articles, brainstorming research questions, structuring grant proposals, building presentations and posters, getting conceptual help with data-analysis code, managing references, and reading peer review more effectively. Every module is anchored in one non-negotiable spine: academic integrity. AI is a thinking and drafting aid, never a ghostwriter, never a source of citations, and never a way to fabricate data or claim work that is not your own. You will get ready-to-use prompts, worked examples, and workflows, plus explicit guidance on citation hallucination, disclosure policies, confidentiality, and accountability. This is educational content and does not replace your institution's policy, your ethics board, or legal advice.

The course has 10 modules and 30 lessons, with 318 quiz questions. The full curriculum, module by module, is shown on the course page.

The course is Intermediate level: it helps to already know the basics of AI and of the course’s field. Business courses require no programming.

The estimated duration is about 25 hours, across 30 lessons. You learn at your own pace, and your progress is saved automatically at every lesson, so you can pick up where you left off.

Access to this course alone costs €99 per month. The course is also included in the Business bundle, €299 per month for all 25 Business courses, and in All Access, €499 per month for the whole international catalog.

Plans are billed monthly, in EUR. Every price is a total, with VAT included at the rate of your country. Compare the plans.

Yes. You can read a free preview of lesson 1, “How AI Fits the Research Workflow in 2026”, without an account. The preview shows you how the lesson is written; the rest of the lesson and the other lessons open after payment.

The AI Professor is built into every lesson and starts from the lesson you have open: it explains the passages you select, gives you examples, summarizes the lesson, tests you with a quiz and prepares review flashcards. You can type or talk to it, in English.

It is included in your subscription, per-course access included, with a monthly fair-use limit. It is an AI system, not a human teacher, and its answers may contain errors; details in the Terms.

When you meet the completion thresholds shown on the platform (lessons completed and the minimum quiz score), you can issue your Certificate of Completion for “AI for Research and Academia” from your account, with a unique number, publicly verifiable on the site.

It is a private attestation of course completion, issued by GALIAN SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT SRL. It is NOT a diploma or a state-recognised qualification under Romanian Laws 198/2023, 199/2023 or Government Ordinance 129/2000; employers may take it into account at their own discretion. Details in the Certification policy.

Yes. Course access and the bundles are subscriptions that renew automatically at the end of each monthly billing period. You can see the next renewal date in your account at any time.

You can stop the renewal at any time, from your account or by email, with no other formality. Access stays active until the end of the period already paid for, and no pro-rata refund is made for a period already started, except in the cases provided by law. Your progress stays saved in your account. Details in the Terms & Conditions, section 5.5.

Yes. Company plans give a team access to the courses, with a dashboard where you follow each member’s progress and manage seats centrally. See the plans for companies.