Supporting schools across Greece and Cyprus with free-access to visual communication and collaboration tools for learning
Gear Education, the leading education technology consulting and implementation specialist across Cyprus and Greece, today announced a partnership with Canva, with Gear Education now as an official training partner for Greece and Cyprus’ Training Partner for Canva Education across Cyprus and Greece.
This appointment enables Gear Education to provide seamless onboarding, authorized training, and dedicated support for K12 schools and Higher Education institutions as they adopt Canva’s suite of visual communication tools that empowers students and teachers to transform their ideas into engaging, impactful creations.
The partnership reflects a shared commitment to giving students and educators free access to best-in-class tools. Canva is a comprehensive visual communications platform available at no cost to all K-12 schools and districts worldwide.
“We are incredibly proud to partner with Canva,” said Christina Shailas, Founder and CEO of Gear Education. “Our mission, proven with partners like Google for Education, is to eliminate cost as a barrier to innovation. Canva is already used by more than 100 million students and teachers globally. We are excited to bring this secure, collaborative, and creative platform to every classroom in our region.”
Transforming Teaching and Learning
Canva Education provides an all-in-one platform for creating engaging content across Docs, Presentations, Video,Whiteboards and more. Key benefits for schools include:
- Seamless collaboration for teachers, students, and staff to create and review work safely in one environment.
- Safety and security made easy and simple as the platform offers Single Sign-On (SSO) and robust privacy compliance, including GDPR, FERPA, and COPPA.
- LMS integrations that connect Canva to tools like Google Classroom, Schoology, and Canvas, allowing teachers to create and review assignments directly within their LMS
- Time-saving visual communication features, with thousands of customizable, education-focused templates for everything from student work to school announcements.
- School-wide brand kits that centralize logos, fonts, and colors to ensure consistent visual identity across the institution.
As a Google for Education partner, Gear Education also supports Google schools in fast-tracking their Canva Education approval using the “Sign up now with Google” option.
Gear Education will assist all primary and secondary schools with free onboarding and offer authorized training. The platform is also available to Higher Education institutions, which may contact Gear Education directly for guidance.
Matt Jordan, Canva Education EMEA Lead says, “Across the world, students and teachers are using Canva to spark creativity, deepen engagement, and bring their ideas to life in entirely new ways. As we continue to build partnerships with leading education and technology organisations globally, our focus is on making Canva available wherever learning happens – including within the tools and platforms educators and students already rely on. By bringing Canva’s full creative toolkit and Education content directly into these experiences, we’re excited to give every learner and educator seamless access to the resources they need to design, explore, and create with confidence.”
Engage School Communities Through Visual Communication
Schools looking to elevate their visual communication further can benefit from pairing Canva Education with TrilbyTV, a fellow Gear Education partner and leading school digital signage platform. Canva enables staff and students to design vibrant, branded content in minutes, while TrilbyTV makes it simple to showcase that content across screens in entrances, corridors, cafeterias, and classrooms.
Together, they offer schools a powerful, engaging way to celebrate achievements, share announcements, and keep their community informed with dynamic, location-specific digital signage.
Schools and Higher Education institutions can contact Gear Education today to begin their Canva Education onboarding.
About Gear Education
Gear Education is an education technology firm based in Cyprus dedicated to providing technology solutions to schools and organizations in the region that work to empower teachers and students. For more information, please visit www.geareducation.com.
About Canva Education
Canva Education provides a free, all-in-one visual communication suite for K-12 schools, offering secure collaboration, LMS integration, and access to premium creative tools. Over 600,000 schools and 6,000 districts use Canva worldwide. Canva is committed to equal access, making its platform 100% free for primary and secondary schools.
