Practice Matrix · Macro

Infrastructure, Tools and Procurement

National policy · Licensing, institutional deployments, integration with the virtual learning environment and vendor arrangements.

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The reading of this intersection

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Two records address at system level what institutions elsewhere address individually. A central portal offers generative AI applications to all universities in a federal state and is open to staff and students alike, and a national pilot introduces an educational version of a commercial assistant with teacher training and phased student access. Both supply a tool rather than a rule, and both settle procurement, access and cost once for many institutions rather than repeatedly for one.

Who, and where

The actors carrying out the practice and where they are. Where a source does not name the institution, no attribution is made.

Institutions and actors

Digitale Hochschule NRW
Government of Greece

Countries

Germany
Greece

Context

Higher education
Public authority

How it was done

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KI:connect.nrw, a shared regional portal for generative AI

A central portal offers generative AI applications to all universities in North Rhine-Westphalia and is accessible to both staff and students. The arrangement answers procurement, access and cost at the level of a state system rather than leaving each university to negotiate separately.

Institution: Digitale Hochschule NRW
Country: Germany
Delivery model: not stated in the source
Context: Higher education
Contributed by: not stated in the source
Year: 2025
Maturity: Established
Scalability: Embedded
Transferability: Established
Source report: D3.2

Evidence

The institution reports the portal as in use, and a respondent in the third round independently reports increased use of the same service.

It offers a central portal for generative AI applications to all universities in North Rhine-

D3.2, p. 42

AI in Schools pilot with teacher training and phased student access

A national pilot introduces an educational version of a commercial assistant with teacher training and phased student access from late 2025. It is one of the few national instruments in the partnership that provides a tool rather than a rule.

Institution: Government of Greece
Country: Greece
Delivery model: not stated in the source
Context: Public authority
Contributed by: not stated in the source
Year: 2025
Maturity: Piloted
Scalability: Established
Transferability: Established
Source report: R3

Evidence

Reported by an administrator with a public source link; the record is a respondent account rather than a partner institution return.

Greece has launched pilot initiatives, such as the “AI in Schools” program, introducing ChatGPT Edu with teacher training and phased student access starting in late 2025

R3, p. 3.3.4