#Next Generation Shapes the EU's Digital Society

Background Artificial intelligence (AI) is expected to play a major role in shaping global competitiveness and productivity over the next couple of decades, granting early adopters significant societal, economic, and strategic advantages. As the pace of AI innovation and development picks up—underpinned by advancements in big data and high-performance computing—the United States and China are both in the driver’s seat. Europe, meanwhile, despite having certain advantages such as a strong industrial base and leading AI research and talent, is punching far below its weight. This state of affairs is especially due to the fragmentation of the EU’s digital market, difficulties in attracting human capital and external investment, and the lack of commercial competitiveness. Objectives #NEXT aims: - To promote AI through the most simple ways to build trust in AI (why and how to trust AI), - To raise awareness of the importance of AI in social, political, and working life in the EU society,, - To raise awareness in society, train and act as a bridge amongst research, government, and citizens for trustworthy use of AI, - To bring youth operators (youth-led NGOs), youth workers, young people, researchers, policy-makers, and universities to improve young people’ critical thinking, problem-solving, and decision-making skills and give them a chance to improve AI’s norms (legal infrastructure of artificial intelligence); policies, ethics, law, and practice, - To produce value-oriented, human-centric, and specific skills-focus development-related academic studies in the field of AI, - To give a voice to young people on how to shape AI’s norms in developing better AI regulations, policies, rules, and legislation in the EU, - To contribute the EU's AI research policy, and innovation area in developing better, digital, resilient, innovative and trustworthy growth of AI ecosystem, - To increase the critical thinking, creativity, and decision-making skills of young people (18-30) and youth workers and increase their active participation in civic life on how to shape and or build AI norms for leading society to trust AI and AI-related ecosystem. - To try to lead the societies in having necessary key competencies; to trust AI and build a trustworthy AI ecosystem. - To build different skills and competencies on why and how to trust AI and how to build a trustworthy AI-related ecosystem, - To strengthen young people and youth worker's soft skills and digital experiences by applying dedicated tools within the project, - To lead young people to have research, discussion, critical thinking, creative problem solving and analytical thinking skills, - To raise awareness of the importance of AI in social, political, and working life. - To bring youth operators (youth-led NGOs), youth workers, young people, researchers, policy-makers, and universities to improve young people’ critical thinking, problem-solving, and decision-making skills and give them a chance to improve AI’s norms (legal infrastructure of AI); policies, ethics, law, and practice. For this to happen, - To produce a e-learning course on improving young people's critical thinking, decision making and problem-solving skills, and will produce value-oriented, human-centric, and specific skills-focus The content of this page is published for information purposes only. The project was funded by the European Union. However, the communication about the project that is published through this page expresses the views of the project beneficiaries only and it does not represent the views of the European Union or the European Commission. It shall not be deemed to constitute legal or official notice on behalf of the European Union or the European Commission. Neither the European Union nor the European Commission can be held responsible for this content nor the use thereof made by any third parties. Page 2 of 5 2021-2-PL01-KA220-YOU-000049755 Generated on: Jan 7, 2026 development-related academic studies in the field of AI. -To give a voice to young people to shape AI’s trustworthy norms in developing better AI norms, policies, and practices in the EU. Activities During the #NEXT cooperation, the following activities (A) will be implemented: A1. 5 face-to-face transnational project meetings and 10 online meetings will be implemented to cooperate and communicate about the proejct activities. A2. Local LTTAs: Each