FullSpan AI

EU contributions

An EU-funded AI project: TUTORIST.

An EU-funded AI project under Horizon Europe: an AI tutor that makes digital education multilingual and accessible.

XR4ED · Horizon EuropeTop 10, Developers track 2024
Horizon EuropeXR4EDTRL 7
TRL 7validated in an operational pilot
50+languages with RAG
50students in the pilot
20courses and 20 field experts

The product

TUTORIST: an AI teacher that speaks your language.

UN Sustainable Development Goals addressed

4SDG 4 · Quality education9SDG 9 · Industry, innovation and infrastructure

  1. Learner asks

    By text or voice, in their own language.

  2. Speech to text

    Many languages recognised in real time.

  3. AI with course data

    Answers come from the course material (RAG).

  4. Text to speech

    A natural voice answers back.

  5. Avatar video

    A lip-synced teacher built from about 10 seconds of video.

3D classroom · XR4ED marketplace
TUTORIST teacher on the board of a 3D classroom
XR4ED marketplace
3D classroom with the AI tutor, published on the XR4ED marketplace

Speech core

Recognition and synthesis tested across many languages.

Knowledge core

A language model grounded in course content.

Avatar core

Lip-synced teacher video generation.

Classroom core

3D and XR spaces through XR4ED.

Shared EU goals

Serving the common purpose.

Digital education

An AI tutor inside the XR4ED platform, with a teacher role.

Multilingual access

50+ languages, against a 10+ European target.

Ecosystem reuse

Integrated with XR4ED services, 3D classroom on the marketplace.

Privacy by design

In-house data-protection legal expertise.

Evidence-based

Questionnaires, ratings, focus groups and analytics.

Inclusive design

Accessibility for all learners as a design principle.

xr4ed · integration
Integration of TUTORIST with the XR4ED authenticator, hopper and marketplace
How TUTORIST plugs into XR4ED.

Results

Targets met, as reported.

+50%Student engagement
Target +50%
+30%Student completion rate
Target +30%
+30%Rating of learning quality
Target +30%
+20%Activity completion in pilots
Target +20%
70%Stakeholder satisfaction
Target at least 70%
90%Speech recognition and synthesis accuracy
Target 90%+
50+Languages with RAG
Target 10+ European
tutorist · web app
TUTORIST student and teacher application screens
Student and teacher views.

Evidence

From the project.

XR4ED world builder with TUTORIST publishing targets
World builder
3D classroom, another view
Another view
TUTORIST processing pipeline
Processing pipeline

Images from the XR4ED final presentation.

Company details

Who received the funding.

Legal nameDare2Care Lda., branded as FullSpan AI

Address6200-284 Covilhã, Portugal

Phone+351 912 873 401

Email[email protected]

Collaboration and executive contact[email protected]

VAT517610612

PIC879374356

Grant agreement101093159 (XR4ED, Horizon Europe)

RoleSole beneficiary

IncorporatedJune 2023

LeadershipDavood Fanaei, founder and CEO

Read more about the EU-funded project

TUTORIST was developed under XR4ED, a Horizon Europe programme that funds extended reality for education through cascade funding. Our company was the sole beneficiary of the project, and it was selected among the top 10 projects of the XR4ED Developers track in 2024.

The goal was practical: give learners an AI tutor that listens, answers from the course material in their own language, and appears as a teacher avatar. The tutor integrates with the XR4ED authenticator, world builder, hopper and marketplace, and a 3D classroom was published on the marketplace.

The core tutor was validated in an operational pilot at TRL 7, with 50 students, 20 courses and 20 field experts, and results were reported at the XR4ED final review. Those results are self-reported rather than independently evaluated, and the avatar video is not real-time.

Learn more about the programme on the Horizon Europe website. To build a similar AI product for your sector, see our solutions or send an RFP.