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Education Futures Fellowship

Whether you're building a youth-facing AI product, designing a student-facing AI feature, leading a school navigating AI, running an NGO in the space, or preparing to enter it — this is where you learn to do it right. Grounded in learning science, cognitive neuroscience and the safety of children and young people.

6
weeks live online
25
seats per cohort
7
world-leading experts
Cohort starts
22 September
Rolling admissions
Until 10 September midnight CET
In partnership with Everyone.AI
The Challenge

Most AI products for children and young people aged 0 to 25 are built — and adopted — without understanding how they actually develop.

The AI × education market is growing fast — but most AI products and student-facing AI features are developed, deployed and funded without a grounded understanding of cognitive development, learning science, behavioural safety, or children's digital rights.

Content moderation is not enough. AI can create unhealthy patterns of attachment, cognitive offloading, dependency and anthropomorphic confusion — risks that stay invisible unless you know what to look for.

The Fellowship

A 6-week online cohort for up to 25 people working at the intersection of AI & children

Seven 90-minute live masterclasses, every Tuesday from 22 September to 27 October — timed to work across EMEA and North America.
17:00–18:30 CET / 8:00–9:30am PT. All sessions are recorded for cohort members.

7
Live masterclasses

Ninety minutes each, delivered live online by leading experts.

3
1:1 mentorship calls

For full-track participants, tailored to your product.

AïA
Safety tool access

Everyone.AI's behavioural safety assessment tool.

2×
Cohorts a year

Deliberately small, for quality of interaction.

The People

Meet the Experts

Seven world-leading experts in learning science, cognitive neuroscience and child safety — here to help you understand what safe, ethical AI for children really looks like, whether you're building it, shaping it, or deciding whether to adopt it.

Anne-Sophie Seret

Anne-Sophie Seret

Co-founder, Everyone.AI & iRAISE

Pioneer in AI safety for children. She leads the integration of child safety science into AI product design, including helping shape evaluation tools like the AïA Safety Builder.

Mathilde Cerioli PhD

Mathilde Cerioli PhD

Chief Scientist, Everyone.AI

Cognitive neuroscientist who leads the science behind the AïA safety framework and the CALIBER expert-consensus model for child safety.

Prof. Grégoire Borst

Prof. Grégoire Borst

Université Paris Cité / CNRS, LaPsyDÉ

Professor of Developmental Psychology and Cognitive Neurosciences of Education at Université Paris Cité and director of the LaPsyDÉ lab (CNRS). His research explores how the developing brain learns, focuses and self-regulates.

Prof. Natalia Kucirkova

Prof. Natalia Kucirkova

International Centre for EdTech Impact

Professor of Reading and Early Childhood Development at the University of Stavanger. Her work spans personalised technology, evidence-based design and children's digital rights.

Erin Mote

Erin Mote

CEO, InnovateEDU

Education equity leader and policy strategist who has worked with districts, governments and edtech builders to scale learning solutions that work for every student. A champion of Safe by Design principles in educational AI.

Prof. Pilyoung Kim

Prof. Pilyoung Kim

University of Denver · Center for Brain, AI, and Child

Professor of psychology at the University of Denver and director of the Brain, AI, and Child Center. Studies the emotional and social dimensions of children's interactions with AI, and how generative AI shapes child brain development and wellbeing.

Jaan Aru

Jaan Aru

Neuroscientist and AI Leap research lead, University of Tartu

Neuroscientist working at the intersection of neuroscience, psychology and AI. His research examines how AI shapes the way children think and learn, and he helps lead the science behind Estonia's national "AI Leap" bringing ChatGPT into schools.

Svenia Busson

Svenia Busson Host

Co-founder, Education Futures

Explorer who spent the last 10 years mapping the ecosystem and shedding light on what works in Edtech. Moderates each session and guides participants through the cohort.

The Curriculum

What science tells us about safe AI use and adoption.

Topic Speaker & Organisation
AI and our youth: what's at stake, and why it can't wait
Anne-Sophie Seret · Co-founder, Everyone.AI
Svenia Busson · Co-founder, Education Futures
How children's and young people's brains actually learn — and what that means for AI
Prof. Grégoire Borst · Université Paris Cité / CNRS, LaPsyDÉ
Does AI actually help children and young people learn? What the evidence says
Prof. Natalia Kucirkova · International Centre for EdTech Impact
When children and young people bond with AI: what we know about emotional risk
Prof. Pilyoung Kim · University of Denver / Center for Brain, AI, and Child
What building safe AI for children and young people really requires — beyond content filters
Mathilde Cerioli, PhD · Chief Scientist, Everyone.AI
Why AI can't replace the effort of learning — and why that matters
Jaan Aru · University of Tartu
What schools and organisations actually require is safe by design, and the regulation of AI products is underway
Erin Mote · CEO, InnovateEDU

🏅 All participants who complete the Fellowship receive a LinkedIn badge and a certificate of completion — a signal that you take the science of AI and children seriously.

Who Should Apply

For anyone working in — or moving into — the AI × education space

01

Startup founders building AI products or features for children

Full Track
02

Product and design leads at education organisations rolling out AI

Full Track
03

Teachers and school leaders navigating AI adoption

Lite Track
04

NGO and nonprofit leaders working on AI in education

Lite Track
05

Future founders — students and career-changers preparing to build

Lite Track
06

Product teams at AI labs

AI Labs Track
The AïA Advantage In partnership with Everyone.AI
Full Track only

AïA: a science-backed safety tool for AI builders

Unlike content moderation tools, AïA Safety Builder measures the behavioural patterns children encounter through repeated AI interaction — anthropomorphic cues, interactional dynamics and relational signals that can skew development.

Powered by the CALIBER expert-consensus framework and the SRL4Children assessment engine.

Discover AïA →
Behavioural safety scores & content risk reports
Comparative model evaluation against benchmarks
Developmentally informed product indicators
Actionable evidence for investor conversations
Pricing & Accessibility

One cohort. 25 seats.

Deliberately limited to protect the quality of interaction and mentorship.

Full Fellowship
15 seats
€1,800
≈ $2,000 USD
per seat
  • 7 live masterclasses
  • 3 × 1:1 mentorship calls
  • AïA Pro access
Education companies, and NGO/nonprofits who build products
Lite Track
10 seats
€500
≈ $550 USD
per seat
  • 7 live masterclasses
  • Same speakers, same cohort
  • No price barrier to entry
Teachers, school leaders, founders of startups less than 1 year old (proof required), career-changers, students and future founders, foundations and NGO/nonprofit teams without a product yet — and anyone simply curious about the topic.
AI Lab Employees
€5,000
≈ $5,500 USD
per seat
  • 7 live masterclasses
  • 3 × 1:1 mentorship calls
  • AïA Pro access
Product team members at AI labs globally
Apply, partner or sponsor a place

Lead with science. Build with confidence.

Join the cohort, partner with us, or sponsor a place for a teacher, founder or NGO leader. We'd love to help you act on what science tells us about AI and children — whatever your role.

Click here to apply →

Reviewed on a rolling basis · Apply by 10 September, midnight CET · Cohort starts 22 September

Ask us anything

Frequently asked questions

Good questions deserve good answers

Absolutely. The Light Track was made for you. Whether you're exploring the idea of founding something, advising a team, or simply want to understand what responsible AI design for children really looks like — you're exactly who we want in the room. You don't need to be a founder (yet, or ever) to apply.
Very much interactive — that's the whole point. Each of the seven 90-minute sessions runs 50/50: roughly 45 minutes of the expert sharing their research and frameworks, followed by 45 minutes of open Q&A. We want these sessions to be as useful as possible for participants, so the conversation is the main event.
It does — and if you've already started thinking about safety, you're ahead of the curve. For you, the Fellowship's biggest unlock is the AïA Safety Builder, EveryoneAI's newest tool. It goes beyond a generic audit: it diagnoses the specific state of your product on safety, and gives you precise, hands-on recommendations — which guardrails to add, what to prioritise, how to improve. Pair that with three one-on-one mentoring sessions with experts of your choice, and you'll walk away with a concrete action plan tailored to what you're actually building.
Either Svenia or Laurent will be happy to answer your questions and discuss this opportunity with you. Book a slot here for a short call with them →