Nationwide initiative “Technology AI” launched

This Might, along with Tesonet, a startup accelerator, we launched a nationwide initiative providing faculties in Lithuania free entry to probably the most superior AI instruments, nexos.ai and Hostinger Horizons. The aim behind the initiative is to convey each lecturers and college students within the Ninth-Twelfth grades in control with the most recent developments in AI, guaranteeing Lithuanian competitiveness on the worldwide stage.

As of October 7, over 250 faculties — representing greater than 40,000 college students and 500 lecturers — have registered to take part.

Registered faculties have already gained entry to Hostinger Horizons, an AI-powered web site creation device, and nexos.ai, an orchestration platform integrating the most recent AI fashions. The primary devoted onboarding occasions befell from October 7–9 in Vilnius and Kaunas, the place lecturers have been educated to successfully combine these instruments into the classroom.

Resulting from excessive curiosity and lively engagement from faculties, and to realize a much bigger affect, registration for the initiative will stay open all through the educational yr for all Lithuanian lecturers and faculties.

Dainius Kavoliūnas, Head of Hostinger Horizons product, says that the aim is to assist college students see expertise not as one thing distant, however as a device they will use.

 “Vibe coding is altering how younger individuals be taught and create. As a substitute of focusing solely on coding abilities, college students can now describe what they wish to construct in plain language — and see it come to life with AI. It offers them a way of management and creativity that was once reserved for skilled builders.

This method helps college students transfer from being customers of expertise to changing into its creators. It opens new methods of pondering, experimenting, and fixing issues. By giving entry to those instruments early on, we hope to encourage curiosity and present that creating with expertise will be easy, enjoyable, and inside everybody’s attain.”

Simona Laiconaitė, Director of the progressive initiatives fund Tesonet Basis, emphasizes that instructional change doesn’t occur robotically — it’s pushed by faculties, their managers’ management, and decision-making. “Present numbers point out that roughly one in three college students in grades 9–12 will participate within the venture. Expertise is evolving at an unprecedented tempo, and the power to maintain up, perceive its potential, and leverage it’s important for people, corporations, and the nation to stay aggressive and foster creativity. That’s the reason registration will stay open all yr, giving new faculties entry to the initiative.”

By offering entry to Lithuania’s most superior AI instruments, the initiative allows college students to experiment and create their first digital enterprise concepts, encouraging entrepreneurship and future founders. On the identical time, it helps lecturers by enhancing the standard of training and fostering a extra partaking, inventive studying surroundings. “Focus teams with lecturers performed over the summer time confirmed that AI can act as an assistant — serving to create extra inventive tasks and duties supporting college students’ emotional readiness in school, and considerably decreasing administrative workload,” S. Laiconaitė added.

“The success of this venture relies upon totally on the engagement of faculties and lecturers. College students are already utilizing AI, however it’s essential to combine it meaningfully into the training course of. Not all college students have entry to those applied sciences, so guaranteeing equal alternative can also be important. Technology AI promotes utilizing AI for training and entrepreneurship, not simply leisure,” mentioned Simona. 

Laura Masiliauskaitė, Director of the group Švietimas #1 provides, “Sooner or later, nations with training techniques that always look forward and adapt to the talents youngsters want when leaving faculty will succeed. Estonia, widely known for its high-performing training system, is implementing AI nationwide this fall. For Lithuania to stay aggressive, it’s important that faculty leaders and lecturers take the lead, and that exterior initiatives present not solely technological instruments but additionally steering on how one can use them to enhance studying outcomes. Analysis reveals that even a 1% enchancment in training high quality can contribute between 0.4% and a couple of.8% annual financial progress for the nation.”

The long-term imaginative and prescient of the Technology AI initiative is to lift the usual of training in Lithuania by integrating AI into the training course of, selling simpler and individualized studying, and decreasing technological inequality.

Extra about this system: https://tesonet.ai/ai-generation

A part of Hostinger’s Communications Group, Kotryna is answerable for constructing and sustaining relationships with media shops and guaranteeing that the group’s achievements and initiatives obtain public recognition. In her free time, Kotryna likes to discover new locations and take images.