New partnerships to support India’s educators and learners

At Google, we are deeply committed to ensuring AI serves as a thoughtful, responsible companion for every learner and teacher in India. At the Education World Forum 2026 in London, we announced new partnerships with Indian state governments and entities, and with UNICEF ¹ to help India’s teachers and students strengthen their AI literacy.

Bringing the Google AI Educator Series to India

We believe that for AI to be truly impactful in schools, educators need to lead the way. We launched our Google AI Educator Series (GES) in the U.S. to provide free, comprehensive Gemini training to K-12 and higher education faculty across the country.

We’re now expanding this initiative to India, offering educators across India’s schools and higher education institutions training on how to use Google AI responsibly to improve learning experiences.

In collaboration with the governments of Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, and Assam, the Union Territory of Ladakh, and Punjab School Education Board, we’re offering practical, mobile-first training customized to the unique needs of Indian educators in schools and higher education institutions. To ensure broad accessibility, the training will be fully localized into six Indian languages in its first year — Assamese, Hindi, Marathi, Telugu, Odia, and Punjabi — starting with select state pilots. As we look to scale this initiative, we are actively seeking to expand our collaboration to more states, higher education institutions, and regulatory bodies to support every school teacher and higher education faculty member throughout India.

This initiative exemplifies the National Education Policy 2020's emphasis on AI as a critical area for teacher training, enablement, and flexible learning across subjects.

Partnering with UNICEF to support innovation in education

To address the challenges of digital divides and unequal access to technology, UNICEF, Google for Education, and Google.org are partnering on a new first-of-its-kind initiative to support education innovation for students in India, as well as in Brazil, Pakistan, and Kenya.

Working closely with education leaders and local governments, the initiative will address some of the most pressing challenges in each country, and focus on improving learning outcomes – especially in essential areas like literacy and numeracy, training educators, and building more reliable and accessible school systems.

We will responsibly integrate AI-powered tools to help accelerate progress and reimagine learning, pairing Google’s technology with UNICEF’s deep expertise in building education systems to ensure every student has the tools they need to succeed. Over the next three years, UNICEF will work with local communities to build localized, scalable solutions that meet the needs of learners — from training teachers to use Gemini and NotebookLM for personalized instruction, to utilizing the India-first ReadAlong app to support learners’ foundational reading fluency and comprehension through guided practice.

In addition to funding the initiative through Google.org, Google will work closely with UNICEF to provide improved access to the technology tools needed to implement these holistic solutions, as well as technical support through ongoing product workshops and training for UNICEF staff, local government, and education leaders.

UNICEF will compile annual impact reports that measure and evaluate the effectiveness of the solutions deployed in each country. Together we will work to ensure that successful solutions implemented in each country are scalable and replicable across communities worldwide.

These initiatives build on our ongoing efforts to support India’s education ecosystem – from helping build India’s first AI-enabled state university to integrating Gemini into student’s learning and test-preparation journeys. Most recently, we have even expanded Google.org’s AI Opportunity Fund across the Asia-Pacific region to equip millions of students, teachers and workers across 19 countries, including in India, with AI skills.

We strongly believe that AI can fundamentally transform learning, helping educators and learners meet their highest potential. We will keep working with the Indian ecosystem and bringing updates to our products to help do just that.