09 April 2026

Prototyping an AI mentor to spark civic imagination in young people This article presents ‘Echo’, a student project developed within the Service Design and Strategic Innovation (SDSI) master programme in collaboration with the European Movement Latvia. It explores how we reframed youth civic disengagement as a challenge of personal relevance and prototyped an AI-assisted tool linking career aspirations with civic imagination.

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