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TBC–GAIA AI Literacy Partnership — Free National AI Education Across Georgia

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TBC Bank and GAIA run a free, nationwide AI-literacy programme — Olympiad courses, hackathons, clubs — reaching 1,000+ school and university students and young professionals across every region of Georgia since 2025.

1,000+
School students, university students and young professionals reached (by mid-2026)
4,000+
TBC Bank employees trained in AI skills
TBC–GAIA AI Literacy Partnership — Free National AI Education Across Georgia

Details

Maturity
Scaling
Promoter
TBC Bank / Georgian Artificial Intelligence Association (GAIA)
Period
2025–ongoing
Keywords
AI literacy, banking-sector CSR, youth education, public-private partnership

Context

TBC Bank, Georgia's largest commercial bank, partnered with the Georgian Artificial Intelligence Association (GAIA) in 2025 to build what the two organisations describe as a comprehensive AI education ecosystem for the country. The partnership runs a slate of free, region-wide programmes: an AI Olympiad Preparatory Course and National AI Olympiad, an AI Student Club, AI and Tech School sessions, GAIA Horizons meetups, technology and AI conferences, and a National AI Hackathon.

Activities

Programmes are delivered free of charge across every region of Georgia rather than concentrated in the capital, Tbilisi. In parallel, TBC has extended AI-skills training internally to its own employees.

Results

By mid-2026 the programmes had reached more than 1,000 school students, university students and young professionals across every region of Georgia. TBC separately trained more than 4,000 of its own employees in AI skills, a scale rare among corporate-sponsored AI literacy efforts in the South Caucasus.

Conclusions

Independent reporting confirms the participation figures and programme list, but neither TBC nor GAIA has published assessment data, pre/post skills testing, or independent evaluation of what participants actually learned. There is also no disclosed funding figure, and the programmes are aimed at students and professionals generally rather than at classroom teachers specifically.

Implementation
Indicative cost
Medium (€50k–€500k) — No funding figure disclosed by either partner.
Time to results
Medium (1–3 years) — Partnership launched 2025; ongoing as of mid-2026 with recurring annual programmes (Olympiad, hackathon).
Staffing & skills
TBC Bank (Georgia's largest commercial bank), Georgian Artificial Intelligence Association (GAIA)

Conditions for success

  • Corporate sponsorship from a major national bank providing sustained funding capacity
  • Partnership with a dedicated national AI association (GAIA) providing subject-matter programming
  • Deliberate region-wide delivery model rather than concentrating in the capital (Tbilisi)

Common failure modes

  • No pre/post assessment or independent evaluation of learning outcomes has been published — only participation counts are reported
  • No disclosed funding figure
  • No data-protection, AI-ethics, or safeguarding framework specific to the education programmes has been published

Where it fits

Governance type
private-sector/civil-society partnership (bank and national AI association)
Scale
national
Income level
upper-middle-income (Georgia)

Commonly funded by

Philanthropic / foundation funding

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