EntranceUNESCO Youth Hackathon · MIL prototype
Oppspot is a trusted opportunity network for young people — and it teaches you how to check what you find. Discover, investigate, connect, learn, act.
“Is this scholarship real?”
Oppspot answers by showing the method, not the verdict.
Where you can go
Why it matters
3 in 4
young people say they cannot reliably tell whether something they see online is true.
The same feed carries the scholarship that changes a life and the scam that takes a month's rent. Oppspot does not ask you to trust a badge — it shows you the working.
Indicative figure used for this prototype
GLThe world
The Oppspot network, right now
8 regions · 41 groups Demo data
Investigation
Manchester, United Kingdom
Eleven students re-checked the viral 'remote study ban' story and traced the earliest post to an account six weeks old.
24 investigations · 3 shared with Vietnam
00How everything connects
Scholarships, competitions, exchanges and jobs — mapped, dated and trust-checked.
01Discover
Competition
LOW RISKNorthbank Design Council (demo)
Team competition for students designing civic spaces for young people. Finalists travel to a two-day studio review.
7 of 7 checks clear
Scholarship
LOW RISKKalmar Ocean Institute (demo)
One-year master's fellowship for students working on flood resilience, mapping and community planning.
6 of 7 checks clear
Summer school
LOW RISKRiverstone University (demo)
Three-week programme on data literacy, open data and civic technology, with partial travel bursaries.
6 of 7 checks clear
02Verify
Worked example
Delta Youth Network (demo)
This listing scores 76. It is not a scam — but a copycat domain is circulating alongside it. That distinction is exactly what a badge would hide and a report reveals.
Exchange
SOME CAUTIONDelta Youth Network (demo)
Two-week exchange for students aged 18–24 working on heritage, rivers and community storytelling.
5 of 7 checks clear
The Oppspot Investigator never says “true” or “false”. It walks you through the same eight checks a researcher would use, then hands the judgement back to you.
Oppspot Investigator
Offline demo · no external serviceI can help you investigate this, but AI can also make mistakes. Let's examine the evidence together rather than jumping to a verdict.
The assistant walks through eight checks: source, domain, author, evidence, date, payment, urgency and independent verification.
03A story you already know
The message
“Congratulations! You have won a fully funded scholarship.”
The catch
“Pay £20 within 24 hours to secure your place.”
The decision
Pay now, investigate first, or contact the organisation independently?
Amara
Linh
Sara
The cast reacts to what you choose — because consequences teach faster than warnings.
04Connect
Architecture · United Kingdom
Looking for · A team for the Global Youth Architecture Prize
Data science · Chile
Looking for · Someone to co-author an open science abstract
Journalism · Kenya
Looking for · A Global Classroom investigation partner
05Learn
Game 01
Four situations, real consequences. Every choice is explained — including the ones that looked sensible.
Game 02
A viral story, six pieces of evidence, five questions. Nearly everything in it is true — and the whole thing is misleading.
Your MIL profile grows as you play
Source evaluation
Scam awareness
AI literacy
06 · The centre
Groups are opened by a verified teacher, cases are translated, and each group publishes its reasoning rather than its verdict. No student data leaves the group.
Enter the Global Classroom07Impact
We don't tell young people what to trust. We teach them how to investigate.
01
Problem
Opportunities, misinformation, scams and AI content arrive through the same screen.
02
Discover
Oppspot maps opportunities that have been checked, and shows how.
03
Verify
Every trust claim comes with its method, so you can repeat it.
04
Connect
Students find teammates and services without oversharing.
05
Learn
Games and case files build the habit of investigating.
06
Act
Young people become confident, responsible digital citizens.