Amideast brought the Raspberry Pi Foundation/Google DeepMind's 'Experience AI' teacher course to Tunisia in Arabic for Grades 6-9 educators. Globally it has reached 7,000+ educators and 1.2m+ students with strong self-reported gains, but no Tunisia-specific numbers exist yet.
7,000+ educators
Educators reached directly (global programme, not Tunisia-specific) (cumulative, as of programme reporting)
1.2 million+ students
Students reached (global programme, not Tunisia-specific, estimated) (cumulative, as of programme reporting)
160+ countries
Countries reached (global programme, not Tunisia-specific) (cumulative, as of programme reporting)
95 %
Educators reporting increased student AI knowledge (global partner-country survey, self-reported, not Tunisia-specific) (partner-country follow-up survey)
Details
Promoter
Amideast Tunisia, with the Raspberry Pi Foundation and Google DeepMind
Period
Global programme launched April 2023; Tunisia rollout live as of 2026
Keywords
teacher training, AI literacy, curriculum content, digital citizenship
Context
Experience AI is an 8-hour teacher-training course built jointly by the Raspberry Pi Foundation and Google DeepMind, providing ready-to-use lesson plans, slide decks, videos, student activities and assessments to introduce AI foundations and AI-safety/data-protection literacy to students aged 11-14. Amideast, the US non-profit long active in Tunisian education and exchange programmes, delivers the course in Tunisia in Arabic, in person and online, to Grades 6-9 educators, who receive a certificate and full access to localised teaching materials.
Activities
Amideast Tunisia trains Grades 6-9 educators using the localised Arabic-language Experience AI curriculum, in person and online.
Results
At the global level — the level for which the programme publishes outcome data — Experience AI has reached over 7,000 educators directly and an estimated 1.2 million students across more than 160 countries, with resources downloaded over 325,000 times. Follow-up surveys of international partner-country participants found 95% of educators reported the sessions increased students' AI knowledge, and 93% of partner-organisation staff said the training increased their own AI knowledge. None of these figures are broken out for Tunisia specifically.
Conclusions
This is a real, verifiably-running national deployment in Tunisia of a global programme with strong self-reported global evidence, but Tunisia-specific reach and outcomes have not been separately measured or published.
Implementation
Indicative cost
Low (< €50k) — No cost figures for the Tunisia deployment are published; the curriculum itself is provided free by the Raspberry Pi Foundation/Google DeepMind, so estimated cost to Amideast is primarily staff delivery time rather than material or infrastructure spend.
Time to results
Short (< 1 year) — The course is an 8-hour training; Tunisia delivery is ongoing, with no stated start/end date for the national rollout in available sources.
Staffing & skills
Amideast Tunisia (local delivery, in Arabic, in person and online), Raspberry Pi Foundation and Google DeepMind (global curriculum developers and funders)
Conditions for success
Localisation of materials into Arabic rather than delivering an English-only curriculum
Delivery through an established in-country education NGO (Amideast) with existing teacher networks
Free access to a pre-built, ready-to-use curriculum (lesson plans, slides, videos, assessments) reducing local development burden
Common failure modes
No Tunisia-specific participation or outcome data has been published, so local reach and effectiveness cannot be confirmed independently of the global programme figures
Global outcome figures rely on self-reported participant surveys rather than independent measurement of student learning
Where it fits
Governance type
NGO-delivered, globally-developed curriculum implemented via a national education non-profit
Scale
national (Tunisia), part of a 160+ country global programme
Income level
lower-middle-income (Tunisia); global programme spans many income levels
Data sources
Where this practice's information was retrieved from, and when.