Education: A Key Driver of Social Cohesion and Living Together

AXA is proud to announce the launch of Unlock Education, an ambitious program in partnership with Ashoka, a global NGO leader in social innovation. This initiative, spanning from 2025 to 2027, aims to rethink education to better address societal challenges such as polarization and social fragmentation.

Freeing the future of future generations: Unlock Education's mission

Unlock Education is based on the certainty that education is a fundamental lever to enable young people to maximize their potential and shape their future. By focusing on empathy, cooperation, and leadership, this program aims to instill in youth the essential skills and values to strengthen social cohesion and living together, so that they can become a driving force for positive transformation within their societies.

A global approach to education

Unlock Education will support 30 Ashoka Fellows, social entrepreneurs striving to address systemic challenges, and implementing innovative solutions tailored to key stages of children's and adolescents' development:

• Early childhood (0 to 6 years) - Growing well: Developing empathy, curiosity, and resilience, as well as academic foundations and good physical and emotional health, by laying solid foundations for lifelong learning.
• Primary childhood (7 to 13 years) - Living well together: Promoting collaboration and supportive environments where every child feels safe and valued. Developing critical thinking, creativity, ethical awareness, civic spirit, and autonomy.
• Adolescence (14-18 years) - Finding the right path: Developing leadership, civic engagement, and agility by providing opportunities for their future. The goal is to help young people envision their future, get involved in concrete projects, and prevent school dropout.

This approach supports young people at every stage of their development and enables them to unlock their full potential.

A global impact driven by collaboration and local engagement

In its first year in 2025, Unlock Education will be deployed in France, Turkey, and Belgium. These countries will form the foundations for the implementation and continuous improvement of the solutions offered by the program. Subsequently, the initiative will gradually expand to Germany, Thailand, the United Kingdom, and Brazil, while ensuring the program is adapted to the specificities of local contexts, without ever losing sight of its international scope and ambition.

For more information, you can also visit the AXA Foundation for Human Progress and Ashoka partnership page.