At the LEMON Network members’ meeting on 28–29 October 2026 in Viana do Castelo, Portugal, our colleague Martina Durljanova, Program Coordinator for Social Inclusion at Association PORAKA NOVA, presented the Erasmus+ project SINFT – Social Impact NFTs: Empowering Youth to Make Social Impact by Creation of NFTs and its new digital platform, sinft.net.
The meeting brought together organisations from across Europe to plan the future of the LEMON Network. The network is led by Pistes Solidaires, one of our partners in the SINFT project. That made the meeting a natural place to share the project’s results with a wider European audience and to show how digital innovation can support youth work and civil society.
From an idea to a working platform
SINFT starts from a simple question: how can young people use the tools of the digital economy to create real social change? The project shows how artificial intelligence, blockchain and NFTs can be made accessible, ethical and useful for young people and the organisations that work with them, instead of only being used for speculation.
At the centre of the project is the SINFT platform. Martina walked network members through how it works:
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Young people create digital art and other creative work linked to the social causes they care about.
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Their work is protected as NFTs and offered on the platform’s marketplace.
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The funds raised go to social impact initiatives, so the platform becomes a fundraising and crowdfunding tool for youth-led and community causes.
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Civil society organisations can join the platform to work with young creators, run campaigns and find new, sustainable ways to fund their missions.
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Learning resources and online courses help young people and youth workers understand the technology, digital creativity and how to make social impact initiatives last.
An invitation to collaborate
Martina’s presentation drew strong interest from the members. Discussion turned to how other organisations in the network could use the platform with their own young people, and how SINFT could feed into joint projects and the network’s 2027 priorities. The timing was ideal, as the platform’s official online launch took place shortly afterwards, on 4 November 2026.
Looking ahead
Presenting SINFT at a network led by our SINFT partner Pistes Solidaires is an important step in taking the project beyond its partnership and into the wider European youth and civil society community. PORAKA NOVA invites LEMON members and all interested organisations to explore the platform at sinft.net and to get in touch about working together.
Through SINFT, we want young people to be more than users of new technologies. We want them to create with those technologies, and to turn their creativity into real change in their communities.
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