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Estonia's AI Leap 2025 — national AI in schools

Estonia · Tallinn · See the Estonia profile

A national programme giving 20,000 secondary students and 3,000 teachers free access to AI tools (ChatGPT Edu) from September 2025 — teacher training first — scaling to ~58,000 students by 2027.

20000
Students in initial cohort (September 2025)
3000
Teachers in initial cohort (September 2025)
58000
Projected students (by 2027 (projected))
5000
Projected teachers (by 2027 (projected))
Estonia's AI Leap 2025 — national AI in schools

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Maturity
Scaling
Promoter
Republic of Estonia (Education and Youth Board)
Keywords
Teaching practice & content creation, generative AI, national programme, teacher training

Context

AI Leap 2025 is a Republic of Estonia national programme, inspired by the 1990s 'Tiger Leap' initiative, providing free, co-created access to AI learning tools (starting with ChatGPT Edu) to secondary students and teachers, developed with Anthropic and OpenAI engaged in planning. It began in September 2025 with 20,000 10th-11th grade students and 3,000 teachers, with teacher training delivered before student rollout, and is planned to expand to vocational schools and new cohorts.

Objectives

To build AI competencies among students, reduce administrative workload for teachers, and generate better policy tools for education.

Conclusions

As the programme launched in September 2025, outcome evidence on learning impact is not yet available.

Implementation

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