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AI Challenge Day 2026 in Malmö ✨🤖🌍

What happens when civil society meets tech, and ideas turn into action?
We participated in the AI Challenge Day 2026, organised by Malmö Ideella bringing together 35 participants from tech, civil society, and business for a day filled with workshops, presentations, discussions, food, and new connections.

Our main goal was to create a vibrant space for mutual learning between NGOs and tech learners from the ReDI School of Digital Integration, a non-profit and non-formal school providing migrants and marginalized locals with free and equitable access to digital education. Together, we explored how Artificial Intelligence can support the concrete needs and real-world challenges faced by the civil society sector.

And the results were outstanding:
🔹 Tech students presented comprehensive, real-world AI solutions tailored specifically to NGO challenges, tools that organisations can actively start using today.
🔹 Beyond systems and code, the day sparked vital conversations on technology through the lens of power, culture, ethics, digital inclusion, and the broader role AI plays in shaping our societies.

Strengthening equality, rights, and active citizenship across Europe through the framework of the Program. By fostering digital inclusion and aligning technological innovation with ethics and human rights, our network ensures that progress serves as a tool for social justice and empowerment. Innovation becomes infinitely stronger when people with different experiences, skills, and perspectives learn and build together!

European Youth

🛑 Let’s talk about positive relationships: our work at the USSM.

We met with young people at the USSM (Social Services Office for Minors) in Palermo to tackle a crucial issue together: preventing and combating gender-based violence and fostering positive relationships. We are well aware that violence is not always visible or physical; it is often hidden in psychological and everyday behaviours that risk being normalised.

To help us in our discussion, we used the ‘Violence Meter’, a practical and accessible tool that helps measure and recognise warning signs within relationships, from the most subtle to the blatantly toxic.

The aim of the meeting was to reflect on the dynamics that develop within romantic relationships and to discuss which ones are geared towards building healthy relationships and which are not. Questioning oneself is the first step towards gaining awareness.

This initiative is part of the activities promoted with USSM to foster inclusion and participation for boys and girls, thanks to European programmes.

Strengthening equality, rights, and well-being through the framework of the Programme. Preventing gender-based violence and ensuring that young people know they have the absolute right to speak up, express themselves, and seek support is central to our network’s dedication to human rights and social justice.

Associazione InformaGiovani Ministero della Giustizia European Youth European Commission