Unlocking Minds – Transformative Education for At-Risk Youth

Unlocking Minds supports justice-involved and excluded youth through trauma-informed learning, coaching, and digital mentorship.

Unlocking Minds is a transformative programme focused on education, rehabilitation, and reskilling of youth and adults affected by exclusion, trauma, or justice-system involvement. Drawing from over 20 years of real-world work in UK prisons, alternative provision, and youth services, it uses a holistic framework integrating:

Trauma-informed care
Strengths-based mentoring
AI-supported diagnostics
Real-world vocational learning
Behaviour change coaching
Peer mentoring systems

Now expanding across Sweden and the EU, Unlocking Minds is seeking partners for Erasmus+ KA210, KA220, and KA3 to co-design pilot projects focused on:

Youth in conflict with the law
NEET youth
Educational disengagement
Early prevention through schools and communities

We’re interested in collaboration for capacity building, co-design sprints, and applied digital innovation.

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We're looking for:
3 more partners
from Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Romania, Erasmus+: Youth in Action Programme countries
Deadline for this partner request:
2025-10-01

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Project overview

Unlocking Minds – Transformative Education for At-Risk Youth is a project by
Ascendium Group AB
taking place
from 2026-01-01 till 2027-12-31
This project relates to:
Training and Networking, Transnational Youth Initiatives, Strategic Partnerships, Capacity Building
and is focusing on:
  • Children
  • Conflict management
  • Democracy/Active citizenship
  • Health
  • Human rights
  • Integration
  • Non-formal learning
  • Sports
  • Unemployment/employability
This project can include young people with fewer opportunities like
  • Social obstacles
  • Educational difficulties
  • Health problems
Young people with trauma history, care-experienced youth, and those excluded from mainstream education or services.

Short URL to this project:

http://otlas-project.salto-youth.net/18411

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