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In this section you can find our blog posts as well our latest news and events. We invite you to comment and share your own reflections beneath each item, if you feel inspired . Any insight, experience or reflection that promote an open dialogue on our shared commitment to increase youth social inclusion in Europe through Youth Citizen Science is welcome!

Four different perspectives on local youth engagement through sustainable activities

Four different perspectives on local youth engagement through sustainable activities
Written by: Emilie Egelund Rademacher | Student and co-researcher | Copenhagen, Denmark  The idea behind the workshop On May 2nd, we, in the Danish case, held a national workshop. The workshop's idea was to discuss how to engage youth in their local environment through sustainable activities within everyday life, education, volunteering, and p...
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Fostering multicultural togetherness in Forcella (Naples, Italy): summing up local case and Living Lab experiences to detect paths for future projects

Living Lab meeting in Forcella (Naples) Living Lab meeting in Forcella (Naples)
The promotion of spaces in which citizens can dialogue and exchange viewpoints has been one of the main aims of the Italian local case since the very start of its unfolding. In this vein, since the project is coming to its end, as a final step of the local case and Living Lab paths a joint meeting was organized in Forcella (Naples) by the local res...
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Empowering Young Females and Males: Using Creativity to Explore Gender and Social Justice in the UK Case

Empowering Young Females and Males: Using Creativity to Explore Gender and Social Justice in the UK Case
The Preston research team made a choice to employ creative methods instead of traditional focus group discussions to delve into the perspectives of young people regarding gender and social justice. Recognising that young individuals might hesitate to express their true thoughts and feelings in a focus group setting, the team opted for creative...
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YouCount travels to the US for the C*Sci23 conference

YouCount travels to the US for the C*Sci23 conference
We are happy to announce that Cathrine Winther, Ph.D. student at the Aalborg University in Copenhagen who also leads the Danish YouCount case, will represent YouCount at the upcoming C*Sci23 conference in Phoenix, USA, with her poster "Co-creating youth engaging strategies - Experiences from youth c...
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Meet the young co-researchers from YouCount

Meet the young co-researchers from YouCount
Do you feel empowered by YouCount? Are youths important in your community? What is your favourite thing about being a part of YouCount? Our young citizen social scientists share their thoughts around these questions in a short video they have produced at the Consortium Meeting in San Sebastian, Spain. Video edited by: Emilie Egelund Rademacher...
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"I bring home a piece of reality"

"I bring home a piece of reality"
In March 2023, YouCount participants gathered for the Consortium Meeting in San Sebastian, Spain. Our young citizen social scientists interviewed eleven researchers coming from eight countries on their main takeaways from the meeting.Authors: Andrew Dirzu (UK), Elias Mokhlis (Norway), Hamza Nouali (Spain), Hasibe Akan (Sweden) W...
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How the Austrian team is letting young citizen scientists make important decisions

How the Austrian team is letting young citizen scientists make important decisions Stock image by Magnet.me from Unsplash
As outlined in our previous blog post, the main goal of the Austrian case is to explore young migrants' political and civic engagement opportunities. To identify these opportunities and propose solutions for any issues connected to the topic, workshops are organized with our young citizen scientists who are themselves representatives of the migrant...
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Social inclusion through the lenses of young citizen scientists in Lithuania

Social inclusion through the lenses of young citizen scientists in Lithuania
The focus on social inclusion in YouCount  In Lithuania YouCount highlights the need to build social inclusion using citizen social science as a tool to mobilise young people to address social issues that are important for them and to create a sense of belonging to a community. In order to involve into the project a wider target group of ...
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Social inclusion through civic engagement in Botkyrka, Sweden

Social inclusion through civic engagement in Botkyrka, Sweden
Can civil-society engagement function as a driver for other forms of social inclusion for young people? And if so, can we identify important drivers for enabling more young people to engage in civil society? These questions lie at the heart of our Swedish YouCount case. The case is carried out in Botkyrka, one of many highly diverse municipalities ...
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Exploring civic engagement opportunities of young migrants in Austria

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Written by: Melanie Saumer  | Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Communication at the University of Vienna, Austria  Based on the most recent statistics, more than a quarter of the Austrian population has migrant background and in fact, the country's population is growing solely because of migration. Moreover, in 2021 alone, 39,930 appl...
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Leading Change with Young People in Preston, UK

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 Written by Salma Qasim, PhD student and research assistant in the UK case YouCount Preston Case A group of young people in Preston were invited to training sessions, the purpose of which were to find out more about what YouCount is all about. The aim was to equip them with the necessary skills to become youth citizen scientists in community r...
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The SV Festival - A place for great conversations and inputs

The SV Festival - A place for great conversations and inputs
Written by: Emilie Egelund Rademacher | Student and co-researcher | Copenhagen, Denmark At the beginning of the summer, YouCount Denmark participated with our young co-researchers in the SV Festival. A local music festival with space for knowledge sharing and negotiation of ongoing projects. Being a part of the festival opened discussions...
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"Crazy Eight", Bingo and Pizza - Our way of Youth Citizen Social Science in Oslo, Norway

YCLosaeterYouthGoupPhoto1 Together with our young co-researchers from the district Gamle Oslo, YouCount Norway held a first workshop after the summer break. Photo: Sara Plassnig
YouCount Norway held its first workshop after the summer holidays with young co-researchers from the district Gamle Oslo who are identifying existing (or lacking) job opportunities for local youth, and how social entrepreneurs, public institutions as well as non-profit and non-governmental organizations can increase these opportunities.  How i...
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Common Signs Research Group: promoting social inclusion of hard of hearing citizen scientists

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Gabriella Gálné, a senior researcher at the Common Signs Research Group and the local Living Lab, talks about the YouCount case study in Szeged. How it all began? The University of Szeged researchers organised the recruitment of our research team in the summer of 2021, and in September, they published a new call for applications...
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Identifying the keys to inclusion of unaccompanied young migrants in Gipuzkoa, Spain

Identifying the keys to inclusion of unaccompanied young migrants in Gipuzkoa, Spain
The main objective of our YouCount case, carried out in the Basque Country (Spain) in the province of Gipuzkoa, is to identify the keys to inclusion and exclusion of unaccompanied migrant minors. Together with these young people, we collect their desires, problems, needs and experiences. In addition to these young researchers and us academic resear...
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Generating inclusive territories in Naples, Italy: where have we gone so far?

Cover-photo Generating inclusive territories in Naples, Italy
Authors: Fortuna Procentese and Flora Gatti, UNINA team The promotion of spaces in which citizens can dialogue and exchange viewpoints is at the base of our work as Community Psychologists. Spaces connoted by openness to others and reciprocal listening. The people compounding local, territorial communities represent the starting point for the ...
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A farewell to YouCount

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Hi everyone, my name is Fredrik Brounéus. I'm a researcher at the civil society organisation VA (Public & Science) and member of the Swedish YouCount team. This is a farewell-and-thank-you note to everyone that I have worked with in YouCount over these past five years. Five years?, you say, surely the YouCount project started in 2021? Yes, it d...
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Setting up Youth Citizen Social Science in practice: Lessons learnt from our consortium meeting in Copenhagen

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In the beginning of June, the YouCount team gathered at Aalborg University (Copenhagen) for the first consortium meeting of the year. After such a long time working online, it was great to get together in person with colleagues from Austria, Denmark, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Norway, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom and finally meet some of t...
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10 Key Learnings from our Knowledge Sharing Webinars

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YouCount and EIE WG organised three webinars in autumn 2021. In the webinars, we explored how to open research and innovation to young people in the form of Youth Citizen Social Science to make social change. This is what YouCount learned: #1 There is a large interest in the topic of Youth Citizen Social Science with 90 percent (168 people) of thos...
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YouCount Celebrates its Female Researchers on International Women's Day

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8th of March marks the International Day of Women worldwide. A day to celebrate and recognise the great women of past, present, and future. A day to advocate for empowerment, equality, and inclusion. This year the global campaign by UN Women focuses on equality for sustainability. For a positive lasting impact on our environment, economic and ...
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