The Horizon2020 project YouCount is getting ready to celebrate its Final Conference Youth Citizen Social Science contributing to social inclusion. Join the YouCount team in Brussels on December 4-5 or connect, from wherever you are, to participate in this hybrid event designed for academics, citizen science practitioners, youth and stakeholder organizations and policymakers interested in youth social inclusion.
YouCount’s researchers and young citizen scientists will present and discuss key insights and findings from the project with a wide array of stakeholders and policymakers working with science policy or social inclusion. Partners from other EU projects aiming to develop participatory citizen science in the social sciences will also be present. The Final Conference will have a dynamic format involving interactive sessions, presentations, and round-tables discussions. It also features a traveling exhibition co-created with young citizen scientists. The overall aim is to inspire knowledge and skills necessary for conducting hands-on citizen social science (CSS).
You can expect to learn about actual outcomes, costs- and benefits of co-creative citizen science, following YouCount’s aim of supporting citizen social science in research and innovation institutions and enhancing collaboration between science and society. Moreover, the research team will showcase how Youth Citizen Social Science can contribute to new knowledge about drivers for social inclusion and discuss their implications, together with different approaches for working with local stakeholders to foster social innovation and inclusive policymaking.
In order to warm up ideas, a pre-seminar will take place in the Nordic house on Monday 4 December. The main focus will be on how to conduct Youth Citizen Social Science in practice, based on lessons learned from the project’s ten case studies. You may then visit the travelling exhibition or wait until Tuesday 5 December, to visit it at the Hotel Berlaymont, where the Final Conference will take place.
The preliminary program for Tuesday 5 is the following:
Professor Alan Irwin will contextualise the project in his introductory speech about the history and future of citizen social science. This will be followed by a presentation by the Project Adviser and Project Officer Katharina Buse from the Research Executive Agency (REA), relating YouCount to the overall ambition of the H2020 Science with and for Society programme.
After presentations of key findings, in a roundtable discussion format, young citizen scientists, representatives from the European Commission, academia and related EU citizen science projects will reflect on how citizen social science can be further improved and supported. So far, Head of Unit Michael Arentoft from the European Commission or Policy Officer Gabriella Leo from the European Commission, DG R&I, Open science and Research Infrastructure Unit, Professor of Theory of Science Dick Kasperowski from Gothenburg University, Scientific Coordinator Alessia Smaniotto and COESO project coordinator, and Science Adviser Asya Salnikova from the Time4Cs project will participate in the discussions.
Young citizen scientists, social scientists including Josep Perelló, CoAct project coordinator and OpenSystems-UB research and key stakeholders such as Deputy head of Unit Mina Stareva from the European Commission, Fair Societies & Cultural Heritage, representative from the European Youth Forum (names later), Sandra Paola Alvarez from the International Organisation of Migration Europe and Tomas De Groote from Sociale InnovatieFabriek will share their perspectives.
This session will also feature Claudia Fabó Cartas, Project officer at ECSA and Project Manager of the EU-funded project ECS, and Laone Bukamu Hulela, Director of Youth Alliance for Leadership and Development in Africa (YALDA) who will share closing remarks.
If you still haven’t, please Register here before October 29, 2023:
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR THE CONFERENCE
DECEMBER 4, 2023 | 14.00-17.00 & 18.00-20.30
Nordic House, Rue du Luxembourg 3/5
DECEMBER 5, 2023 | 09.00-17.00
Hotel NH Brussels EU Berlaymont, Bd Charlemagne 11/19