Choose with evidence
Compare tools against your students, data policy, Cantonese needs, curriculum and total cost.
EDB AI for Empowering Learning and Teaching Funding Programme
Give teachers back their admin hours. Give students back their teachers.
Criteva was founded by a former Hong Kong teacher. We help schools with AI marking, lesson design, teacher training and report evidence. Teachers do not have to run a second admin process; every task leaves a record you can use in the 2027 and 2028 reports.
Teachers: try AI marking free, no procurement neededEvery enquiry is handled personally by founder David Leung. No sales handoff. Criteva is independent of the EDB.
The grant is approved. Now it has to deliver.
Circular 221/2025 sets clear outcomes. We help schools choose the right tools, prepare teachers, run lessons and keep the evidence organised.
One-off funding per approved schoolHK$500,000
3+subjects or curriculum areas
6+AI teaching examples or resources
3+open or demonstration lessons
3 + 2teacher sharing sessions and student activities
Criteva works with schools that already hold the grant, through to the end of the 2027/28 school year. The EDB application window has closed.
Read EDB Circular 221/2025A school plan teachers can actually run.
You do not need another disconnected AI subscription. You need a focused plan that fits your subjects, timetable, staff confidence and reporting duties.
Build for real lessons
Turn AI into six or more usable resources across at least three subject areas and two year levels.
Prepare the teachers
Run practical workshops around the lessons your staff will teach, with clear boundaries and fallback plans.
Launch and observe
Support demonstration lessons, gather classroom evidence and improve the workflow while teachers are using it.
Measure and report
Organise adoption, lesson evidence, student work and evaluation data for the required school reports.
How we learn
AI should follow how learning works.
Our four pillars come from cognitive science, including Benedict Carey's How We Learn, then get translated into classroom decisions.
Attention
Students learn what they attend to. Interfaces and lessons should make the next useful action obvious.
Focused prompts, calm screens, one decision at a time.Active engagement
Learning grows when students retrieve, explain, speak, write and make choices.
Students produce work instead of reading an AI answer.Error feedback
Mistakes teach when feedback arrives quickly, names the issue and shows what to try next.
Immediate feedback tied to teacher-approved criteria.Consolidation
Spacing, review and sleep move fragile knowledge into memory.
Review cycles that return at the right time.
A personal learning case.
Our founder guided one student in learning French using the four learning principles described on this page, practising with AI tools. Twelve months later the student sat the official TCF Canada exam and reached C1 in listening, C2 in reading, B2 in speaking and C1 in writing.
C1Listening
C2Reading
B2Speaking
C1Writing
The method also worked in tutoring.
Mainland Chinese students at Trinity Education Group used related methods and made significant IELTS improvements in about three months.
Built by a teacher who also ships software.
From teachers to teachers
Founder David Leung has taught programming and English in Hong Kong schools and tutoring centres. He answers each school enquiry himself, so the person discussing your implementation is the same person responsible for scoping it.
Programming at Diocesan Boys' School, Primary DivisionSTEM and programming at Pui Kiu Middle SchoolEnglish teaching across multiple tutoring centresIELTS support for mainland Chinese learners
Originated in Denmark. Registered in Hong Kong.
David holds a Master of Engineering in Technology Entrepreneurship from the Technical University of Denmark. His ventures received support from Danish startup and education organisations.
We also worked with Monika Walczak, Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Copenhagen, to better understand AI, trust and user psychology.
Support across our founder's ventures
Technical University of DenmarkBeyond BetaMicro Grant, Danish Foundation for EntrepreneurshipAccelerace
School names describe prior teaching experience and do not imply institutional endorsement.
Products built around real learning problems.
Criteva is one part of a broader education practice covering early language learning, classroom culture, AI literacy and teacher workload.
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Criteva Marking
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Class management
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Bilingual language learning
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Questions schools ask.
Answers grounded in EDB Circular Memorandum 221/2025 and the EDB's official updates.
What is the AI for Empowering Learning and Teaching Funding Programme?
A three-year EDB funding programme launched on 16 December 2025, drawing about $500 million from the $2 billion the Quality Education Fund earmarked for digital education. Each successful publicly-funded primary or secondary school receives a one-off HK$500,000, usable until 31 August 2028. The goal is the EDB's own slogan: AI for ALL subjects.
Does the funding cover both primary and secondary schools?
Yes. Government, aided (including special), caput and Direct Subsidy Scheme primary and secondary schools are all eligible. By early February 2026, more than 790 schools (over 80% of publicly-funded schools) had applied, according to the EDB. The commitments are identical for both: AI-assisted teaching in at least three subjects, six teaching examples or resources, open classes, sharing sessions and student activities.
What AI education software and services can the funding buy?
Under the circular, schools may purchase, subscribe to or lease AI software, hardware, platforms, learning and teaching resources and school-based AI application solutions, and subsidise student AI-literacy activities. Criteva helps schools compare the Hong Kong market on curriculum fit, Cantonese support, data policy and total cost, with evidence gathered before any money is committed.
How should a school choose an AI education company in Hong Kong?
The EDB itself reminds schools to judge carefully whether packaged one-size solutions genuinely fit their school. Compare five things: curriculum fit, Cantonese and local-curriculum support, student data privacy, depth of teacher training, and learning-outcome evidence you can put in a report. Criteva is teacher-founded and scopes from your school's needs, not from a package.
How does Criteva help schools deliver the programme?
We help choose tools, design lessons and prepare teachers; build six or more usable resources across at least three subjects and two year levels; support open and demonstration lessons; and organise the evidence schools need for the EDB's mid-term report (September 2027) and final report (September 2028).
Bring us the plan your school has to deliver.
We will help you turn it into a practical scope for tools, lessons, teacher preparation and evidence.
Book a free school consultationRequest a proposalOr email david@criteva.com; our founder answers personally.