Albania's New National Curriculum Introduces AI Fundamentals from Grade 4

On 27 August 2026, at 'Isa Boletini' School in Paskuqan, Tirana, Albania's Education Minister Ogerta Manastirliu announced that the newly approved national curriculum will introduce AI fundamentals starting in Grade 4, building on an ICT programme that has run since Grade 1 for the past three years. The Minister said recent technological developments now let the education system monitor students' coding achievements in real time.
The announcement cites approximately 35,000 children who have already learned coding through the existing ICT programme, and the government is separately expanding a network of 'smart laboratories' in schools. This sits alongside Albania's existing school-level AI initiatives — a UNICEF-backed Eduten adaptive-maths pilot in 30 schools and an AADF/Intel AI curriculum for high schools — extending AI content down to primary grades for the first time nationally.
This is a policy announcement rather than a completed rollout: no implementation timeline, teacher-training plan, or curriculum materials for the new Grade 4 AI content had been published as of the announcement, and no outcome data exists yet since teaching has not begun.

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