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Wallonia-Brussels Federation Pilots AI Tools for Basic-Skills Remediation in 20 Primary Schools

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Belgium's French Community selected 20 primary schools to test adaptive AI tools — Lalilo, Adaptiv'Math, Matheros and Projet Voltaire — for reading, writing and maths remediation, consolidation and extension in grades 4-6, backed by a €200,000 fund.

20
Schools selected
EUR200,000
Total programme budget
Wallonia-Brussels Federation Pilots AI Tools for Basic-Skills Remediation in 20 Primary Schools

Details

Maturity
Pilot
Promoter
Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles
Period
November 2025 – October 2026
Keywords
education, primary education, personalised learning, adaptive learning

Context

Under Circular 9618 of 7 November 2025, the Federation Wallonie-Bruxelles (Belgium's French-speaking education authority) launched a call for projects inviting primary schools to experiment with AI-based adaptive learning software in grades 4 to 6. Twenty schools were selected from applicants assessed on stakeholder involvement, alignment with digital strategy, diversity of intended uses, and training of project leads.

Results

The programme is built around three pedagogical uses -- remediation, consolidation and extension -- applied to reading, writing and basic mathematics, using named eligible platforms (Lalilo, Adaptiv'Math, Matheros, Projet Voltaire), deliberately excluding general-purpose chatbots such as ChatGPT. A total budget of EUR200,000 was allocated, with up to EUR10,000 per school, on the explicit condition that software 'support the teaching team without replacing it.'

Conclusions

The experimentation runs until 9 October 2026, after which each school must submit a report feeding a central evaluation. Belgian regional press reporting on the launch noted that, at the pilot's start, it remained unclear which success indicators would be used to judge the trial or what would happen to the learning data collected from participating pupils.

Implementation
Indicative cost
Low (< €50k)
Time to results
Short (< 1 year)
Staffing & skills
Federation Wallonie-Bruxelles, 20 participating primary schools

Conditions for success

  • named eligible platforms excluding general-purpose chatbots
  • explicit condition that software support, not replace, the teaching team

Common failure modes

  • success indicators and data-governance rules for pupil learning data were not yet resolved when the pilot began

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