Iraq's Ministry of Higher Education partnered with Google to give every university student nationwide one year of free Gemini Pro (normally $240/year), alongside Jordan and the UAE — a large access grant with no published learning-outcome evaluation yet.
$240 per year
Value of free access per student
Details
Maturity
Pilot
Promoter
Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research (Iraq), with Google
Period
October 2025 - October 2026
Keywords
higher education, public-private partnership, AI literacy
Context
On 9 October 2025, Iraq's Ministry of Higher Education and Google gave every public and private university student nationwide one year of free Gemini Pro access, a package Google values at $240/year per student.
Results
The programme is a blanket access grant with no instructor training, data-governance framework or monitoring plan; no adoption or learning-outcome data has been published since launch.
Implementation
Indicative cost
High (€500k–€5M)
Time to results
Short (< 1 year)
Staffing & skills
Iraq Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Google MENA partnership team
Conditions for success
data-protection and governance framework for student use of a foreign commercial AI product
instructor training to integrate the tool pedagogically
Common failure modes
no monitoring or evaluation plan published alongside the rollout
Commonly funded by
National / regional programmes
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