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Gen-UI — Slovenia's National Study of Generative AI Use in Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Education

Slovenia · Ljubljana · See the Slovenia profile

Slovenia's EU-funded Gen-UI project, led by 10 institutions, produced the country's first systematic study of generative-AI use in schools. A March 2026 survey of 231 Kranj students found most delegate evaluation and analysis to AI; only 26% had clear school rules on its use.

56%
Students delegating evaluation tasks to AI (March 2026 survey)
49%
Students delegating analysis tasks to AI (March 2026 survey)
41%
Students delegating creation tasks to AI (March 2026 survey)
26%
Students with clear school rules on AI use (March 2026 survey)
14%
Students given no guidance on AI use at all (March 2026 survey)
Gen-UI — Slovenia's National Study of Generative AI Use in Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Education

Details

Promoter
Zavod Antona Martina Slomška; State Institute for Education of the Republic of Slovenia (ZRSS); Universities of Ljubljana, Maribor and Primorska; Jožef Stefan Institute
Period
June 2024 – May 2026
Keywords
AI literacy, generative AI in education, teacher guidelines, national research, EU-funded

Context

Gen-UI ('Generativna UI v izobraževanju') is a two-year Slovenian national project (June 2024-May 2026) studying and guiding the use of generative AI in primary, secondary and tertiary education. Funded by the Republic of Slovenia and the EU's NextGenerationEU Recovery and Resilience Plan, and led by Zavod Antona Martina Slomška, it brings together 10 partner institutions — including the universities of Ljubljana, Maribor and Primorska, the Jožef Stefan Institute, and Slovenia's State Institute for Education (ZRSS) — across seven work packages.

Activities

The project has published three monographs, including a University of Maribor Press analysis of generative AI use across primary, secondary and tertiary education (May 2025), plus guidelines and more than 60 documented examples of practice. A related survey in March 2026 of 231 students at Šolski center Kranj examined how students actually use generative AI.

Results

The Kranj survey found that while students most often use AI to explain material or find facts, many also delegate higher-order cognitive work to it — 56% for evaluation, 49% for analysis and 41% for creation — and only 26% reported having clear school rules on AI use, with 14% given no guidance at all. The project frames these results as evidence of a 'cognitive debt' risk, where students offload critical thinking to AI, and cites national data showing school-based AI training remains the exception rather than the norm.

Implementation
Indicative cost
Medium (€50k–€500k)
Time to results
Medium (1–3 years)
Staffing & skills
Zavod Antona Martina Slomška (lead), Universities of Ljubljana, Maribor and Primorska, Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia's State Institute for Education (ZRSS), 10 partner institutions across seven work packages

Conditions for success

  • Multi-institution national consortium spanning primary, secondary and tertiary education
  • EU Recovery and Resilience Plan funding
  • Production of practical guidance and teacher-facing materials (60+ documented practice examples)

Common failure modes

  • National data show school-based AI training remains the exception rather than the norm
  • Only 26% of surveyed students report clear school rules on AI use; 14% report no guidance at all
  • Survey evidence so far comes from a single school centre (231 students)

Where it fits

Governance type
EU-funded national research consortium
Scale
national research project, single-school survey pilot
Income level
high-income EU member state (Slovenia)

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