EMEA Formative years & Wellbeing Grant

April 2026 replace: Applications for 2026 at the moment are closed. Finalists for the EMEA Formative years & Wellbeing Grant program have now been decided on. When you have no longer been contacted via the crew, it sadly approach your venture was once no longer decided on for the general spherical. We actually respect the effort and time invested on your utility and the necessary paintings you’re doing.

The EMEA Formative years & Wellbeing Grant is a €500,000 investment program for organizations around the area to lend a hand younger other folks take pleasure in AI.

This system will be offering investment to NGOs and analysis organizations which can be operating without delay with kids, younger other folks, households or educators; or generating unbiased analysis on how AI impacts younger other folks’s security, wellbeing and building.

Our purpose is to give a boost to sensible paintings and unbiased analysis that is helping everybody higher perceive what secure, accountable AI seems like in the true global.

As AI turns into a part of how younger other folks be informed, create and keep in touch, there’s a rising wish to be sure that it’s really helpful and secure. Collaboration between teens organizations, unbiased researchers, and AI builders can lend a hand to give a boost to working out of its real-world advantages, whilst additionally trying out and strengthening safeguards. This grant will give a boost to that effort via investment organizations doing necessary paintings and serving to them extend their affect.

We can give a boost to tasks that target teens security, wellbeing and AI. For instance:

• Formative years coverage and harm-prevention techniques
• AI literacy projects interested by younger other folks, oldsters or educators
• Sensible equipment that lend a hand organizations reply safely to AI-related dangers

For analysis organizations:

• Analysis on new tactics AI can enrich teens building and training
• Analysis on kid security and adolescent wellbeing
• Opinions of youth-safety safeguards in real-world settings

We inspire proposals that produce transparent, usable outputs, comparable to stories, toolkits, coverage briefs or examined approaches that others can be informed from.

Conventional grant dimension: Grants will range relying on scope and scale of labor; awards are anticipated to be between €25k–€100k, with multi-year awards thought to be for better techniques or networked partnerships. Allowable prices come with cheap direct and oblique prices in step with institutional insurance policies.

Candidates should meet the entire following:

• Candidates should be 18+ and constitute an operational NGO, analysis establishment or coalition.
• They should paintings totally on teens security, adolescent wellbeing or AI affects on minors, or suggest paintings that may generate helpful proof or sensible equipment in those spaces.
• Candidates should have the capability and to ship the paintings ethically and on time, be keen to proportion their technique and findings, and have interaction with the Council of Approvals the place required.

Packages will probably be evaluated in opposition to the next weighted standards:

1. EMEA presence (necessary): your organisation should be legally registered in an EMEA nation (Europe, Center East, or Africa). We would possibly request evidence of registration.
2. Alignment with program goals (top): How obviously the venture advances AI teens security, evaluates safeguards, or produces actionable proof for coverage stakeholders or product groups.
3. Have an effect on & scalability (top): Most likely contribution to measurable enhancements in teens wellbeing or security around the precedence markets; doable to steer coverage, apply or product design.
4. Methodological rigor & moral design (top): Analysis strategies, coverage of minors, consent processes, and plans for secure information dealing with.
5. Feasibility & capability (top): Workforce’s operational/analysis capability, sensible timeline and finances, moral safeguards and information governance.
6. Sustainability & amplification (medium): Doable for the venture to proceed past the grant length or to construct native capability (e.g., helplines, relied on testers).

Packages open: 28 January 2026

Packages shut: 27 February 2026

Initiatives start: Q2-Q3 2026. (Dates will also be finalised to align with the respectable release.)

To use, candidates will have to entire the web shape and add:

• Undertaking name
• Detailed proposal (max 500 phrases): goals, strategies, timeline, key deliverables, worth to policymakers/merchandise/NGOs
• Detailed finances and finances justification
• Workforce CVs and institutional association(s)
• Ethics remark and information dealing with plan (if related)
• Letter(s) of give a boost to or partnership affirmation (if related)

Notice: Applications for 2026 at the moment are closed, keep tuned for updates.

Preliminary screening for eligibility and completeness

Council evaluation for technical, moral and criminal have compatibility

Ultimate approvals & contracting (Criminal & Comms sign-off previous to award)

Awarding & activation: Funded companions start pilots and analysis in Q2 2026; outputs will feed into product, coverage and regulatory engagements as they develop into to be had