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    PPPA-2026-YOUTH-SOCIAL-MEDIA-DESIGN

    Youth-Driven Social Media Design: Safe, Inclusive, and Publicly-Owned Social Media

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    Youth-Driven Social Media Design · PPPA-PJG

    6 Oct 2026
    Deadline
    €1.5M
    Indicative, per project
    ~1
    Grants expected

    What this call funds

    This call funds one project to co-design, with young people across Europe, a decentralised social media platform (built on ActivityPub or AT Protocol) that puts user well-being, safety, and mental health first. The project should produce a working prototype or upgrade existing decentralised services, test it with young users, and roll it out with a clear plan for long-term uptake and sustainability, sharing lessons for the wider decentralised social media ecosystem.

    social innovation · mental health · software platforms · artificial intelligence · civil society democracy · education skills

    Who wins this

    A consortium experienced in youth engagement, mental health/civil society expertise, and software development for decentralised social media platforms, capable of running EU-wide co-creation processes and building/testing a protocol-based prototype.

    Could you win this call?

    We read your site to see what you build.

    The call in detail

    Indicative grant size
    €1.5M
    Funding model
    PPPA-AG
    Submission
    Single-stage submission (full proposal at once)
    Type of action
    PPPA Project Grants
    Partners
    Not stated in the call.
    Also required
    Co-creation processes must involve young citizens from at least eight EU Member States with geographic and demographic diversity, including persons with disabilities or neurodevelopmental conditions.
    Read the full conditions from the official call ›

    Conditions 1. Admissibility conditions: Proposal page limit and layout described in section 5 of the call document. Proposal page limits and layout: described in Part B of the Application Form available in the Submission System. 2. Eligible countries described in section 6 of the call document. 3. Other eligibility conditions described in section 6 of the call document. 4. Financial and operational capacity and exclusion described in section 7 of the call document. 5a. Evaluation and award: Submission and evaluation processes described section 8 of the call document and the Online Manual. 5b. Evaluation and award: Award criteria, scoring and thresholds described in section 9 of the call document. 5c. Evaluation and award: Indicative timeline for evaluation and grant agreement described in section 4 of the call document. 6. Legal and financial set-up of the grants described in section 10 of the call document. Call document and annexes: Call document

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