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Flanders Commits €10 Million to a University-Led AI Strategy for Schools

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Flemish education minister Zuhal Demir allocated €10m for five Flemish universities to co-develop an AI-in-schools strategy, after finding AI already used by a quarter of primary and about half of secondary teachers with no formal guidelines in place.

10 EUR million
Flemish government commitment (2026)
25 %
Primary teachers already using AI tools (2026 survey)
~50 %
Secondary teachers already using AI tools (2026 survey)
Flanders Commits €10 Million to a University-Led AI Strategy for Schools

Details

Promoter
Flemish Department of Education and Training / Flanders' five universities
Period
2026
Keywords
education policy, teacher training, generative AI governance

Context

In June 2026, Flanders' education minister Zuhal Demir asked the region's five universities, together with university colleges, research institutes and private-sector experts, to jointly develop a strategic roadmap for artificial intelligence in Flemish schools, backed by a EUR 10 million Flemish government commitment.

Objectives

Produce a roadmap covering five focus areas: critical and responsible AI use, preparing students for an AI-shaped labour market, supporting teachers, using AI to strengthen pedagogy, and scaling practices shown to work.

Activities

The initiative responds to survey findings that a quarter of teachers in Flemish primary education and nearly half of teachers in secondary education already use AI tools in their work, while formal guidelines, training and safety frameworks have not kept pace.

Conclusions

As of mid-2026 the initiative is a funding commitment and mandate for the universities rather than a completed or evaluated programme; no classroom-outcome results have yet been published. It sits alongside the EU-backed FutureProof Education initiative, in which Flanders and the Wallonia-Brussels Federation both participate alongside Germany's North Rhine-Westphalia, Ireland, Luxembourg and Sweden.

Implementation
Indicative cost
Very high (> €5M) — Stated EUR 10 million Flemish government commitment 'to get the process underway'.
Time to results
Short (< 1 year) — Funding announced June 2026, to be spent 'over the coming months' on strategy design and rollout.
Staffing & skills
Flemish Department of Education and Training, Flanders' five universities, university colleges, research institutes and private-sector experts

Conditions for success

  • Broad multi-stakeholder mandate spanning academia, government and industry
  • Grounded in real, independently corroborated usage-gap survey data before designing the framework

Common failure modes

  • No formal guidelines, training or safety frameworks currently exist despite already-high teacher AI use, meaning governance is lagging practice
  • Roadmap is a commitment, not yet a delivered or evaluated programme

Where it fits

Governance type
regional government funding a university consortium
Scale
region-wide (Flanders)
Income level
high-income

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