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Turkmenistan's First National AI-in-Education Conference — UNESCO IITE Convenes Ashgabat

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On 29 August 2025 Turkmenistan's Ministry of Education and UNESCO IITE convened scientists and educators in Ashgabat for the country's first international conference on AI in education, opening a national conversation with no implementation commitments or participant data yet on

Details

Promoter
Ministry of Education of Turkmenistan / UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education (IITE)
Period
29 August 2025
Keywords
government, higher education, international cooperation

Context

On 29 August 2025, Turkmenistan's Ministry of Education partnered with the UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education (UNESCO IITE) to hold the country's first International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education in Ashgabat, titled 'The Potential of Artificial Intelligence for Achieving Sustainable Development Goal for Education.'

Activities

The hybrid-format event was opened by UNESCO IITE director Tao Zhan, UNESCO Education Sector's Shafika Isaacs, and Turkmenistan's Vice Minister of Education Azat Atayev, with keynotes from Beijing Normal University's Huang Ronghuai and UNESCO ICHEI's Bi Xiaohan; scientists and educators from Turkmen State University, the International Oil and Gas University and other countries attended, discussing personalising learning, fostering critical thinking, and adapting curricula to AI.

Conclusions

No participant counts, national policy commitments, funding, or follow-up implementation plan are documented: this is an agenda-setting and awareness event, not yet a delivered programme. A second, separate Ashgabat conference in December 2025 highlighted a newly opened AI laboratory at Oguz Han Engineering and Technology University, an early sign the August conference's agenda is translating into concrete campus infrastructure.

Implementation
Indicative cost
Low (< €50k)
Time to results
Short (< 1 year)
Staffing & skills
Ministry of Education of Turkmenistan, UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education (IITE)

Conditions for success

  • international partnership (UNESCO IITE) to bring in outside expertise
  • hybrid format enabling participation from foreign universities and speakers
  • engagement of national universities (Turkmen State University, International Oil and Gas University) to anchor follow-through

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