CONNECTED MINDS
Your Voice on AI and Mental Health.
AI is already part of how we learn, connect and cope. Connected Minds brings together 20 young adults from Austria and Romania to explore how AI shapes mental health, digital wellbeing and everyday choices.
Together we create responses that matters to all of us.
Living with AI — Without Losing Ourselves
AI can open doors, support learning and make information easier to access. But it can also amplify pressure, bias, misinformation and emotional dependence.
Therefore program ‘Connected Minds’ creates a safe, practical space where you can examine both sides and build the confidence to reflect on AI critically.
Building
Critical AI Literacy
Understanding how algorithms, data, bias and platform design influence what we see and believe.
Protecting
Digital Wellbeing
Recognising information overload, comparison pressure, emotional reliance on AI and ways to stay in control.
Creating Change
with Peers
Developing campaigns, tools and learning formats that speak to young people in their own communities.
Your experiences, questions and ideas shape the program. Together we turn critical reflection into practical awareness campaigns for your peers.
Interested in joining Connected Minds?
The programme is for young adults aged 18–25 from Austria and Romania.
Does this all sound interesting for you?
Why Connected Minds?
“We already live with AI but often I not yet feel equipped to judge its answers, risks or effects on wellbeing.”
Alex M.from Vienna,
23 years
What you can explore
1.
How AI shapes your everyday life
Explore how algorithms, recommendations and generative AI influence learning, relationships and decisions.
How to deal with Bias, accuracy and fake content
Learn to question AI outputs, spot unfair patterns and check whether information can be trusted.
2.
AI and your mental load
Discuss information overload, comparison pressure, chatbot reliance and the mixed effects of AI on wellbeing.
3.
Privacy and digital autonomy
Understand data use and develop habits that support safer, more self-directed technology use.
4.
Creating campaigns
Turn personal experiences and new knowledge into workshops, videos, games, art or other awareness formats.
5.
Cross-border peer learning
Work with young adults from Austria and Romania and compare how shared digital challenges affect different realities.
6.
What the program creates
Critical AI skills
Participants learn to analyse AI systems, question outputs and make more informed digital choices.
Digital resilience
They develop practical strategies for protecting wellbeing, privacy and autonomy.
Youth-led action
20 participants co-create
5–10 awareness campaigns designed for their peers.
European connection
Young people from Austria and Romania build relationships, exchange perspectives and reach 5,000+ peers.
The Timeline
Interested in joining Connected Minds?
Be one of the 20 participants aged 18–25 from Austria and Romania leading the way in a digital responsible future.
Three organisations, one shared approach
PARTNERSHIP
Working across Austria and Romania, Connected Minds combines youth mental health expertse, AI experts and cutting edge facilitators to create the experience of your life.
Co-created by young people. Supported by Europe.
We create a participatory program in which you shape both - the learning process and its results.
Funded by
Connected Minds is co-funded by the European Union through Erasmus+ as a Small-scale Partnership in Youth (KA210-YOU).