Ahmet Murat Kılıç

Ahmet Murat Kılıç is the Head of the Digital Transformation Unit at the Education Department of the Council of Europe. Kılıç leads the activities under the third pillar “Advancing education through a human rights-based digital transformation” of the Education Strategy 2024-230: Learners first – Education for today’s and tomorrow’s democratic societies. In this framework, he supervises two intergovernmental programmes – Digital Citizenship Education and Artificial Intelligence and Education. He contributes to the development of legal and policy instruments, guidelines for a wide range of stakeholders in education and educational resources to support member states in developing their policies, legislation and practices with a view to promoting democratic, quality, inclusive and corruption-free education systems. In this scope he leads the Council of Europe’s collaboration with private sector companies in the field of education and with the EdTech sector. He also leads the development of the European Reference Framework for the Evaluation of Educational Technologies that aims at ensuring that EdTech and AI Systems that are intended for deployment in education environments provide relevant evidence and align with European values, protecting the rights of learners and educators, and safeguard democracy and the rule of law.