Meet EduGenAI: UT joins national pilot for safe AI in education

The UT is participating in a national pilot with the EduGenAI platform, a joint initiative by Npuls and SURF to build a safe, responsible generative AI-platform for Dutch education.

What is the EduGenAI Platform?

The EduGenAI platform provides a secure infrastructure and a user-friendly interface for educators and students to access both open-source and commercial language models. It is designed around public-value goals, prioritizing data sovereignty, privacy, and fairness, and promotes collaboration across institutions. For users, it offers a trustworthy environment to explore and use generative AI in teaching and learning.

What is the status of the EduGenAI Platform?

A national pilot is currently underway. This pilot allows educational institutions, including the UT, to experiment with the platform and provide essential feedback for its ongoing development. To participate, institutions are asked to submit a clear educational use case and a plan for evaluating its success. Participation also involves contributing to various evaluation and dissemination activities.

What is the role of the UT in this project?

The UT is an active participant in the national pilot. During the first phase of the pilot, the UT will explore how students can use the EduGenAI platform as an "AI tutor" to ask course-related questions, this is done in collaboration with several teachers. The second phase of the pilot will likely include additional teacher-led use cases, dependent on access and support availability.

Interested in joining the pilot? UT teachers are invited to submit their ideas. Please contact the TELT team (telt@utwente.nl), who coordinate the pilot at UT. We look forward to hearing how you envision using the EduGenAI platform into your educational context. NOTE: the EduGenAI platform currently does not support high-risk use cases (e.g. assessment, fraud detection)

What are the next steps?

The pilot phase runs until the end of the current academic year (2025-2026). Based on the results, Npuls and SURF will develop the platform into a useful service for all Dutch secondary vocational institutions (mbo) and higher education institutions (hbo, wo). According to SURF's current roadmap, the platform should be available for widespread use around the end of 2026. At the same time, the UT can use the pilot findings to make an informed decision on whether they would like to continue using this platform in the future.

More information and contact details

If you have any questions or want to learn more about this pilot project, please contact the TELT-team (telt@utwente.nl) or visit the Npuls website.

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