Autumn marks a new chapter for Youth AI Lab. Following an initial exploration phase, the four labs will now develop their projects further, test them in new contexts and prepare to share them across Europe.

A new season in the labs

• In La Rochelle, the young participants will continue developing Feurisson and Superbot. The chatbots will be tested with new users to expand their data, put stronger safeguards around sensitive responses and improve their reliability. The robotics concepts developed over the summer will also provide the starting point for a new group project.
• In Naples, the FARO lab will take the Otto robot from measurement to action. The environmental data collected will be compared with public datasets and then used in a presentation exploring sustainable cities, inclusion and the consequences of technical choices.
• In Barcelona, Gorgs IA Studio will put its prototypes in the hands of their intended users. These tests will help validate the needs identified, improve the datasets and make the solutions more robust before they are presented to a wider audience.
• In Antwerp, Digitale Wolven will launch its weekly programme in October at one of DW's partner schools, with a group made up mainly of young people from that school. The participants from the August workshops are invited to join them. The group will build on the image and motion recognition trials run over the summer to choose and develop its own project, alongside conversations with families about the uses and limitations of AI.

Building the next set of shared resources

Across the consortium, the coming months will focus on turning local experience into resources that other teams can easily reuse. Activity ideas tested in the field will gradually be supplemented with detailed protocols, teaching materials and lessons learned.

The Youth AI Lab skills tree will support this new phase. It will allow the four labs to highlight the areas of learning they have addressed, choose their next “quests” and connect the pathways followed in the different countries.

Another major initiative begins in September 2026: the creation of a multilingual wiki for educators and facilitators. Due in the first half of 2027, it will bring together the teaching methodology, activities, protocols, mentor-training resources and assessment tools needed to adapt the Youth AI Lab approach to other settings.

Upcoming events

On 22 and 23 October 2026, the five partners will meet in Antwerp for a training course on fine-tuning language models, jointly designed and delivered by L.A.B and Perlatecnica. The meeting will strengthen mentors’ technical and ethical foundations and prepare them for the second wave of workshops.

A new series of public-facing content and postcards from the labs will be published at the end of the year. Exchanges between the groups will then continue as they prepare for their European gathering in Rome, scheduled for autumn 2027.

To follow the next stages and access the open resources, visit youth-ai-lab.eu.

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