The project aimed to reduce teachers' administrative workload by developing and implementing AI-powered tools and chatbots that streamline routine tasks, improve efficiency, and allow educators to dedicate more time to teaching, learning, and student support, improving educational process efficiency and quality. Through digital tools and structured training, we provided teachers with more time for students, enhanced their digital literacy, and made the teaching profession more attractive and sustainable in the long term. The project did not only ease teachers' daily tasks such as lesson planning, grading, communication with parents, and student data reporting; it also enabled a more personalised teaching approach, fostering educational innovation and preparing students for the digital age. A further objective was to embed responsible AI use in school routines — supporting teachers in selecting and applying generative AI tools ethically, in line with GDPR/KVKK and with transparency, fairness, human oversight. The project also aimed to strengthen the capacity of school leaders and inspectors to mentor teachers in this transition, ensuring the benefits of AI adoption reach the whole school environment.
We submitted the project in response to the urgent need to address the administrative burden on teachers and the absence of a structured methodology for AI use in schools across our partner countries. Our analysis showed that teachers in Lithuania, Türkiye, Serbia and Slovenia spend 6.7 to 8.2 hours per week on routine administrative tasks, and that this burden drives stress, burnout and reduced instructional quality. The project sought to respond to these needs by providing teachers and school leaders with structured educational materials, training, and digital tools to support them in building resilience against administrative overload. It also targeted education inspectors directly by offering opportunities to develop AI literacy, ethical judgement, confidence in supervising responsible AI use in schools. Additionally, the application addressed the needs of partner organisations, which required innovative methods, scalable resources, competence frameworks to expand their work with schools. By combining expertise from school leadership, national inspection, creative pedagogy, AI research, the project aimed to reduce administrative workload, strengthen pedagogical practice, and foster responsible AI adoption.