Announcing our European Youth Safety Blueprint and EMEA Youth & Wellbeing Grant recipients
Today, we are introducing our European Youth Safety Blueprint and the first recipients of our EMEA Youth & Wellbeing Grant. Both are part of our ongoing effort to help ensure young people can benefit from AI in ways that are age-appropriate and support their development and wellbeing.
To ensure young people can fully benefit from AI, Europe needs an approach that is practical, evidence-led, and focused on how young people actually use AI. We are publishing our European Youth Safety Blueprint, which sets out five pillars for policymakers who want to strengthen protections for young people in the age of AI while preserving access to tools that support learning, creativity, and opportunity.
The Blueprint focuses on practical measures including responsible AI adoption in education, age-appropriate experiences supported by safeguards and privacy-preserving age assurance, under-18 safety policies to identify and mitigate risks, protections against manipulative or deceptive AI outputs, and common standards for accessible parental controls.
These are not the only answers, but we hope they are a useful contribution to ongoing efforts of getting this right.
Advancing youth safety will take more than just policy recommendations. We will also support organisations working directly with young people, families, educators, and communities to better understand what safe and beneficial AI use looks like in practice.
We are excited to announce 12 recipients of our EMEA Youth & Wellbeing Grant . Launched in January , the program totalling €500,000 is intended to support NGOs and research organizations across Europe, the Middle East and Africa working on youth safety, wellbeing, and AI.
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