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

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 a National AI Olympiad, an AI Student Club, AI and Tech School sessions, GAIA Horizons meetups, technology and AI conferences, and a National AI Hackathon.

By mid-2026 the programmes had reached more than 1,000 school students, university students and young professionals across every region of Georgia, offered free of charge rather than concentrated in Tbilisi alone. In parallel, TBC extended AI-skills training internally to more than 4,000 of its own employees, giving the initiative a scale rare among corporate-sponsored AI literacy efforts in the South Caucasus.

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 — the public record so far documents reach and activity, not measured learning gains. There is also no disclosed funding figure, and the programmes are aimed at students and professionals generally rather than at classroom teachers specifically.

Read the full analysis: https://georgiatoday.ge/ai-education-for-future-opportunities-tbc-and-gaia-expand-access-to-artificial-intelligence-learning-across-georgia/