From him next December for teachers and from March 2026 for students, of the 1st and 2nd high schools, the new pilot educational program “AI inSchools” will bring to Greek schools “ChatGPT Edu”, the special edition of ChatGPT which is designed exclusively for her education.

In total, 20 schools in the territory will participate in the pilot application of the program and the purpose of its implementation, according to the Ministry of Education, is to give all participants the opportunity to acquire skills and practical tools for her responsible, creative and pedagogically informed use of at teaching and the learning.

It’s about 14 standard and experimental high schools in the territoryas well as for 6 high schools from the public Onassia schools which have been operating since last September. After the first, pilot implementation of the program, and if it is successful, the intention of the ministry is to gradually expand it to more schools across the territory, so that Greece, in cooperation with major technology providers, can become a model for understanding and applying these new technologies in education.

The aim of the program is for teachers and students to understand and be able to use Artificial Intelligence in a way that is safe, supportive and tailored to their individual educational needs.

Artificial Intelligence as an ally of education

For “an important step for the school of the future”speaking to APE-MPE, the Minister of Education, Religion and Sports said, Sophia Zacharakis. “With the AI ​​in Schools pilot program, we are bringing, for the first time, Productive Artificial Intelligence into the classroom, as an ally of education, not a substitute for it,” emphasized and added: “We want our teachers and students to know, understand and use Artificial Intelligence with responsibility, creativity and critical thinking”.

As the minister noted, the “ChatGPT Edu” version is expected to offer “a new and safe educational environment adapted to the needs of teaching”. “Through this, our teachers gain practical tools to enrich their lessons and enhance children’s creativity, collaboration and critical thinking,” he explained.

It is worth noting that the program is implemented by the Ministry of Education, Religion and Sports, in collaboration with the OpenAI and the Foundation Onassis. For this cooperation, Mrs. Zaharaki emphasized that it constitutes “an example of how innovation can meet education, when there is shared vision and shared action.” “Why education is not a bystander in the age of Artificial Intelligence. He is the protagonist. It is an ally of the teacher and an opportunity for every child to learn, create, achieve”. concluded the minister.

In particular, teachers and students will receive personalized training from The Tipping Point in Education organization on using the full potential of OpenAI models. They will also have access to the latest TN models through a specially configured version of them, ‘ChatGPT Edu’, which is exclusively tailored for classroom use. The implementation is done in collaboration with the Onassis Foundation, which will finance the program.

The 3 + 1 stages of implementing “AI in Schools”

During the implementation of the program, the teachers and the students participating in the program will have access to ‘ChatGPT Edu’, a special edition of ChatGPT designed exclusively for education. Teachers will receive specialized training, while the tool will be gradually used in the classroom, always under the supervision and guidance of teachers.

In more detail, according to information from APE-MPE, the “AI in Schools” pilot program has an implementation schedule in three phases for the current school year, plus one for the coming one:

1. Teacher training (October – November 2025): Selected teachers will participate in trainings to get to know and understand ‘ChatGPT Edu’, familiarize themselves with the basic features and learn how to safely integrate it into their teaching and administrative tasks.

2. First use by teachers (December 2025 – February 2026): Teachers are trained to use “ChatGPT Edu” in their daily life and how it can be integrated gradually in the classroom, with practical scenarios and support.

3. Training in gradual use by students (March – June 2026): Teachers attend trainings on how students can use “ChatGPT Edu”, under teacher supervision, for assignments, projects and creative activities, enhancing critical thinking, creativity and collaborative learning.

4. Use by teachers and students (school year 2026-27): Teachers and students use all the possibilities of the new tools offered by chatGPTEdu.

According to the Onassis Foundation team, which is in charge of the strategic planning and financing of the program, the emphasis is on responsible use and transparency, and on the training of teachers, as designers of the learning experience, as they will be the ones who will give the tools to the students to properly use the tools of Productive Artificial Intelligence.

“It is important for teachers to be able to define the context of use of IT, that it is ethical, reliable and safe”reported characteristics to APE-MPE.

As they pointed out, special attention is paid and a key priority is the protection of the personal data of teachers and students, the responsible and safe use of “ChatGPT Edu”, while it is pointed out that user licenses for students– the which are estimated to be around 5,000– they won’t sell out this yearbut after the successful completion of the first three phases of the implementation of the program, when the teachers will be able to “guide” the children not to use Artificial Intelligence – this, after all, is already happening, as they emphasized – but to make sure that “this use is done in a pedagogical and didactic context, in order to provide them with the skills tools they need to know how to operate in the new technological reality and to they understand”.

ChatGPT Edu

In more detail, ChatGPT Edu is a special Artificial Intelligence platform, which has been developed for use in schools and universities. As the Onassis Foundation team explained to APE-MPE, the program in question provides a secure and closed environment without advertisements, allows account management by school, with roles for teachers and students, provides special access settings by age or class and enables teachers to create customized learning tools (Custom GPTs) and lesson setup.

It was also clarified that user data is not used to train the models, while everything is protected through encryption and GDPR compliance. The participation of the teachers is voluntary and has come from a call of interest for those who want to participate in the program and takes place after information and consent.

At the same time, the ministry points out that there are express contracts with OpenAI, which prohibit the sale or sharing of data, and at the same time an Impact Assessment Study (DPIA) is being prepared, as provided by the European GDPR regulation, while the Ministry’s Data Protection Officer (DPO) has been called to continuously evaluate the program.

Expand to more schools

According to APE-MPE sources close to the leadership of the Ministry of Education, as the program develops, its implementation will be closely monitored and the possibility of a gradual expansion will be examined implementation of “AI in Schools” in more schools. At the same time, a special working group has been set up within the ministry, with the aim of evaluating how Artificial Intelligence can be meaningfully integrated into the school as a valuable tool for teachers.