Meet EduGenAI: UT joins national pilot for safe AI in education
Tuesday 11 November 2025
The University of Twente is taking part in a national pilot for EduGenAI, a platform developed by Npuls and SURF to make generative AI safe and useful for Dutch education. The goal: give educators and students a reliable way to use AI without sacrificing privacy or control over data.
What is the EduGenAI platform?
EduGenAI offers a secure infrastructure and a simple interface to access both open-source and commercial language models. It's built around public-value goals: data sovereignty, privacy, fairness, and cross-institution collaboration. For day-to-day use, that means you get a trustworthy environment to test, teach, and learn with AI.
What's the status right now?
The platform is in a national pilot. Institutions, including UT, can experiment and provide feedback that feeds into development. To join, each institution submits a clear educational use case and a plan for measuring results, and contributes to evaluation and knowledge sharing.
- Submit: a concrete use case plus an evaluation plan
- Participate: testing, feedback sessions, and dissemination
- Outcome: insight to guide platform features and policy
UT's role in the pilot
UT is an active participant. In phase one, students will use EduGenAI as an "AI tutor" to ask course-related questions, in collaboration with several teachers. Phase two will likely add more teacher-led use cases, depending on access and available support.
Interested in joining the pilot?
UT teachers are invited to share ideas for use cases or join ongoing pilots. Contact the TELT team, who coordinate the pilot at UT: telt@utwente.nl. Briefly describe your course context, the AI task you want to test, and how you plan to evaluate learning impact.
Note: The EduGenAI platform currently does not support high-risk use cases such as assessment or fraud detection.
Timeline and next steps
The pilot runs through the end of the 2025-2026 academic year. Based on the results, Npuls and SURF will develop EduGenAI into a service for Dutch mbo, hbo, and wo institutions. According to SURF's current roadmap, broader availability is expected around the end of 2026.
UT will use the pilot findings to decide on continued use and integration after the pilot ends.
More information
- Learn more about the national initiative: Npuls and SURF
- Questions about the UT pilot: telt@utwente.nl
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