Pioneering educational project by TUM and the Roland Berger Foundation

Supporting socially disadvantaged children with AI

“With this initiative, we are sending out a strong signal: Artificial intelligence must not be a privilege. We are giving children and young people from all social backgrounds the opportunity to acquire skills in this key technology of the future,” emphasizes Prof. Thomas F. Hofmann, President of TUM. “Our TUM Center for Educational Technologies is the right place for this. This is where we develop, research, and evaluate state-of-the-art educational technologies.”

Prof. Enkelejda Kasneci, Director of the TUM Center for Educational Technologies, is the scientific director: “I am convinced that our innovative educational approach will not only teach students how to use AI responsibly but will also enable them to develop their individual potential to the full.” In the long term, AI-supported learning methods will be extended to other subjects and skills.

In view of the fact that 70% of the scholarship holders have a migration background, this project plays a central role in promoting education. Founder Roland Berger emphasizes: “We are delighted about this pioneering cooperation with TUM. Given this rapidly developing technology, we are responsible for making the scholarship holders confident in dealing with artificial intelligence. We are opening up future opportunities for them because 2035 there will no longer be a job in Germany without AI.”

The German Student Scholarship currently supports 650 talented children and young people from socially disadvantaged families and works with 70 partner schools across Germany. The cooperation with TUM opens up new opportunities to develop targeted AI-supported learning models.

Claudia Piatzer, Deputy Chairwoman of the Executive Board and Program Director of RBS, emphasizes: “The exemplary cooperation holds great potential for our scholarship holders to support self-directed learning with AI tools. The cooperation allows us to develop tailor-made models. Teachers are also involved in order to optimize tools for lesson design through their practical experience. We will make the knowledge gained available to all our partner schools.”