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This is a joint initiative to strengthen schools’ readiness for the AI era funded by the European Union through the Technical Support Instrument and managed by the European Commission’s Reform and Investment Taskforce. It collaborates with six education authorities:
Through this partnership – exceptional for its multi-systemic technical support and collaboration – UNESCO, the European Commission, and the education authorities cultivate a shared space for learning and innovation across contexts. At the same time, adaptive support is provided within each education system, aligning project activities with local priorities, structural conditions, and stakeholder perspectives.
Over the coming two years, the aim is to:
Informed by the insights from local education communities, UNESCO works with its Member States to strengthen policies, frameworks, and capacities that harness AI in the service of education as a public endeavour and a common good, placing human rights, equity, and quality learning at the centre of this transformation.
The FutureProof Education initiative embodies this bottom-up and co-creative approach. It draws on experiences across multiple levels of the education ecosystem – from individual practitioners to system leadership – to inform evidence-based policymaking, while leveraging the global expertise of UNESCO and the European Commission. In doing so, it forges stronger linkages between classroom practice and policy dialogue, shaping concrete pathways for the ethically grounded, pedagogically meaningful, and rights-affirming integration of AI in education.
This article is related to the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals.
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