Since 2009 Aslak has been working with projects relating youth, journalism, the media and education. He strives at getting young people to take part in the democracy they will inherit from us, the democracy they must help maintain to ensure its survival.
As a journalistic fellow at Southern University of Denmark in 2015, he revised the traditional news criteria used by Danish news media into a list of what he defined as Engagement Criteria, serving as a tool to reach younger audiences with news. Based on this work he is still affiliated at the university as part of a European consortia of media organizations developing a newsgame to engage young adults in current affairs and journalism.
