EMEA Youth Safety and Wellbeing Funding Program 2026 (up to €500,000) – YOA

Deadline: February 27, 2026

Applications are open for the EMEA Youth Safety and Wellbeing Funding Program 2026. The EMEA Youth Safety and Wellbeing grant is a €500,000 grant program for organizations within the area to assist younger folks profit from AI know-how.

The undertaking will fund two forms of establishments: NGOs and analysis establishments that instantly serve kids, adolescents, households or educators; Another class is groups that conduct unbiased analysis on how AI impacts youth security, effectively-being, and improvement. Their aim is to assist arms-on tasks and unbiased analysis to assist all events higher perceive how secure, accountable AI ought to work in the actual world.

Grant

• Total funding: €500,000.
• Typical single grant quantity: The certain quantity will rely upon the scope and scale of the undertaking; Estimated to be between €25,000–100,000, multi-12 months grants shall be thought of for bigger tasks or community-based mostly collaborations. Reimbursable bills embrace affordable direct and oblique prices according to institutional insurance policies.

Eligibility

• Applicants should be at the very least 18 years outdated and symbolize a working NGO, analysis institute, or consortium.
• Its predominant focus must be on youth security, youth effectively-being, or the affect of AI on minors, or tasks that can produce beneficial proof or sensible instruments in these areas.
• Applicants should have the flexibility to full tasks on time and ethically, be prepared to share their methodology and findings, and cooperate with the assessment committee when wanted.

Judging Criteria

Applications shall be evaluated based mostly on the next weighted evaluation standards:

• Legal registration in EMEA (required): Your group should be legally registered in an EMEA (Europe, Middle East, or Africa) nation. We might ask for proof of registration. We might ask you to present proof of registration.
• Alignment with undertaking objectives (excessive): How clearly the undertaking drives AI-associated youth security efforts, evaluates safeguards, or supplies actionable proof to coverage stakeholders and product groups.
• Impact and scalability (excessive): Expected to ship quantifiable enhancements in youth effectively-being or security in key markets, with the potential to affect coverage, apply, or product design.
• Methodological rigor and moral design (excessive): together with analysis strategies, measures to shield minors, knowledgeable consent processes, and safe knowledge processing protocols.
• Feasibility and Execution (High): The group’s operational and analysis capabilities, possible timelines and budgets, and moral safeguards and knowledge governance preparations.
• Sustainability and amplification (center): The potential of the undertaking to proceed to advance or improve native capability (e.g. hotline service, trusted testnet, and so forth.) after the funding interval ends.

Application

To apply, you’ll need to fill out the web kind and add the next supplies:

• Project identify
• Detailed undertaking proposal (most 500 phrases): together with goals, methodology, timeline, key deliverables, and worth to policymakers, product groups, and NGOs
• Detailed funds and funds description
• Team member resumes and institutional affiliation data
• Ethics Statement and Data Processing Protocols (if relevant)
• Letter of assist or affirmation of partnership (if relevant)

Click here to apply

For extra data, go to EMEA Youth Safety and Wellbeing Funding Program.