From March 2023 to May 2025, five partners across five countries (Belgium, Slovenia, Poland, Hungary, Spain) came together with a shared vision: to help young people access honest, inclusive, and engaging sexual and reproductive health education. What started as a simple conversation about misinformation online turned into ALEX: The SexEd Bot – conceived as a digital tool to be co-created by a consortium of private organisations, youth and youth workers committed to non-formal learning.
We are a diverse team made up of educators, digital innovators, youth workers, and NGO leaders, but all united by one question: How can we make sex education more accessible and more relatable for youth, especially those often left out of the conversation?
Our answer? A chatbot that doesn’t lecture, doesn’t judge, and is always there when you need it.
Over two years, we’ve delivered:
- A multilingual chatbot delivering holistic sex and relational health content on a dedicated Instagram page (alexbot.eu)
- A toolbox of 50 best practices for youth workers and a guide to support the use of digital tools for teaching and learning sexual and relational health
- A user manual and a creation guide for adapting and reusing chatbot tech in education
- A testing phase with over 300 youth and youth workers across Europe
- And a repository of multimedia content to bring it all to life
Each partner brought something unique: from digital design and content writing to sexual health pedagogy, youth inclusion, and outreach. This blend of expertise made ALEX more than simply a project deliverable, but also a model of European cooperation and digital youth work.
While this is the end of the project, it’s not the end of ALEX’s story. All our resources will remain freely available for at least 5 years. We hope they’ll keep supporting educators, youth workers, and, most of all, young people navigating their own questions with curiosity and confidence. Thank you for being part of this journey and for helping bring ALEX to life.
The ALEX partnership may be signing off, but the conversation with ALEX (and what it stands for) continues.
