The Ministry of Education of Serbia, working together with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Petlja Foundation, is implementing an initiative to boost AI literacy and digital skills among students and teachers. The programme includes training to enhance teachers’ competencies in AI, development of free online resources for learning programming, and organisation of programming summer schools. The initiative addresses Serbia’s education system’s rigidity and capacity to adapt to and use AI technology effectively. UNDP, the Ministry of Education and the Petlja Foundation are collaborating to develop curriculum approaches that teach new generations not only to use AI for routine tasks, but to use AI thoughtfully, ask better questions, improve foreign language learning, and enhance creativity. The programme examines how to prepare the education system to effectively adopt and integrate AI across disciplines.
Who it affects: Primary and secondary school teachers and students across Serbia; education administrators seeking curriculum adaptation; programmers and digital skills instructors.
What is notably missing: No mandatory curriculum standard or binding timeline for nationwide AI integration is specified. Teacher training funding and certification requirements are not detailed. The programme does not address pre-service teacher education or accreditation mechanisms for AI literacy instruction. Workplace AI training obligations outside schools, or retraining requirements for displaced workers, are not included. No enforcement mechanism or progress reporting standard is defined.