Ceibal & ANEP — Uruguay's National AI Postgraduate Certification and Computational-Thinking Teacher Training

Fundación Ceibal, Uruguay's national one-to-one education-technology agency, and ANEP, the national public-education administration, built a tiered AI teacher-training pipeline sitting inside Ceibal's wider 'Pensamiento Computacional e Inteligencia Artificial' programme.

The pipeline aims to build teacher capability in AI tools at multiple tiers, from lighter-touch course completion up to a postgraduate certificate, building on Ceibal's near-universal one-to-one laptop and connectivity infrastructure.

Per a 2025/2026 government report, more than 40 training sessions were run; in May 2025 Ceibal, the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank and Canada's IDRC also launched EduIALab, a regional hub anchored in Uruguay to develop and share AI-in-education tools across Latin America and the Caribbean.

Over 900 teachers completed and passed AI-related courses and more than 150 teachers earned a postgraduate certificate (postítulo) in AI, within Ceibal's wider programme that the World Bank reports reaching roughly 10,000 teachers and 205,000 students across 85% of urban public schools.

The figures come from two different aggregation levels, a national government communication on the postgraduate/course pipeline and World Bank programme-level figures for Ceibal's broader AI-education portfolio, and neither is independently audited; the 150+ postgraduate-certificate cohort is small next to Uruguay's roughly 40,000-strong teaching workforce, so the credentialing pathway remains an early-stage, elite tier above much larger, lighter-touch training.