The European Moonshot for Education: AI-Powered Learning as Sovereign Infrastructure

Policy paper proposing education as the twelfth Moonshot project in the EU Multiannual Financial Framework 2028–2034. Argues that Google's deployment of LearnLM to 170 million accounts via existing Workspace infrastructure constitutes cognitive lock-in without pedagogical review, procurement decision, or democratic oversight. Presents the case for a European trustee-governed alternative modeled on the CERN precedent, with sovereign data architecture and federated knowledge governance. Companion paper: A Generative Education Architecture for Planetary-Scale Personalized Learning.