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 Each AI systems project is worth 10 ECTS.
 Generally, you can pick whichever project sounds more interesting to you/is more relevant for your studies (if you need two projects, you can also take both, but you cannot start both at the same time).
 
+**Requirements:** There are no formal requirements, but we strongly recommend
+that you take the AI lecture (taking it in parallel should also work).
+Furthermore, you should have substantial programming experience (the programming language is not important) because you will have to program a lot.
 
 ##### What happens in the project?
 The project will consist of several large problems (≈6), which you will work on individually or in small teams
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--- a/courses/ai2sysproj.md
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@@ -21,6 +21,9 @@ and the AI-2 Systems Project focuses on the subsymbolic methods covered by the A
 Each AI systems project is worth 10 ECTS.
 Generally, you can pick whichever project sounds more interesting to you/is more relevant for your studies (if you need two projects, you can also take both, but you cannot start both at the same time).
 
+**Requirements:** There are no formal requirements, but we strongly recommend
+that you take the AI lecture (taking it in parallel should also work).
+Furthermore, you should have substantial programming experience (the programming language is not important) because you will have to program a lot.
 
 ##### What happens in the project?
 The project will consist of several large problems (≈6), which you will work on individually or in small teams