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The newly launched Global Education AI Hub offers real-world testing ground for partners, drawing on data from more than 90 schools and 200,000 students worldwide
Dubai, June 11, 2025: GEMS Education today launched the Global Education AI Hub, a new initiative that invites leading minds in artificial intelligence, education research and edtech innovation to co-create advanced education tools.
Headquartered in Dubai and embedded within GEMS’ innovation ecosystem, the hub aims to co-develop and scale real-world, ethical and inclusive AI solutions from personalised learning and intelligent tutoring systems to school operations, well-being and curriculum design.
The initiative is aimed at AI-focused research institutions and PhD fellows, edtech companies and start-ups with a clear AI roadmap, curriculum designers and adaptive content creators, applied AI researchers and innovators seeking education testbeds; and foundations and social ventures focused on equity and access.
With access to GEMS Education’s 90 plus schools around the world, 200,000 students, and 15,000 teaching staff, billions of unique data points, spanning multiple curricula and geographies, partners will have the opportunity to pilot and refine their innovations in live, diverse classroom environments.
Sunny Varkey, Chairman and Founder of GEMS Education, says, “We are calling on the best minds globally to join us in shaping a more personalised, inclusive and impactful future for all learners.”
The Global Education AI Hub will provide secure access to anonymised data and insights from GEMS’ diverse education settings, on-ground collaboration with GEMS School of Research and Innovation, deployment and scaling support via GEMS’ network and future international hubs, ethical governance and high-fidelity testing infrastructure; and recognition and visibility as a founding innovation partner
Baz Nijjar, Vice President – Education Technology and Digital Innovation at GEMS, adds, “AI’s potential in education is immense but only if built responsibly, and evaluated where it matters most: with students and teachers.
“Our hub is designed to empower the world’s top innovators to do just that. Whether you’re developing a tutoring engine, a well-being algorithm, or an operational platform, we offer the infrastructure and access you need to make it real – and make it scale.”
Partners may collaborate through either philanthropic or commercial pathways, with opportunities to develop open-access tools or co-create proprietary solutions with global impact.
