EMEA Youth & Wellbeing Grant

The EMEA Youth & Wellbeing Grant is a **€500,000 funding program for **organizations across the region to help young people benefit from AI.

The program will offer funding to NGOs and research organizations that are working directly with children, young people, families or educators; or producing independent research on how AI affects young people’s safety, wellbeing and development.

Our goal is to support practical work and independent research that helps everyone better understand what safe, responsible AI looks like in the real world.

As AI becomes part of how young people learn, create and communicate, there is a growing need to ensure it is beneficial and safe. Collaboration between youth organizations, independent researchers, and AI developers can help to strengthen understanding of its real-world benefits, while also testing and strengthening safeguards. This grant will support that effort by funding organizations doing important work and helping them expand their impact.

We will support projects that focus on youth safety, wellbeing and AI. For example:

For NGOs:

• Youth protection and harm-prevention programs
• AI literacy initiatives focused on young people, parents or educators
• Practical tools that help organizations respond safely to AI-related risks

For research organizations:

• Research on new ways AI can enrich youth development and education
• Research on child safety and adolescent wellbeing
• Evaluations of youth-safety safeguards in real-world settings

We encourage proposals that produce clear, usable outputs, such as reports, toolkits, policy briefs or tested approaches that others can learn from.

Total fund: €500,000.

Typical grant size: Grants will vary depending on scope and scale of work; awards are expected to be between** **€25k–€100k, with multi-year awards considered for larger programs or networked partnerships. Allowable costs include reasonable direct and indirect costs consistent with institutional policies.

Applicants must meet all of the following:

• Applicants must be 18+ and represent an operational NGO, research institution or coalition.
• They must work primarily on youth safety, adolescent wellbeing or AI impacts on minors, or propose work that will generate useful evidence or practical tools in these areas.
• Applicants must have the capacity and to deliver the work ethically and on time, be willing to share their methodology and findings, and engage with the Council of Approvals where required