EU Youth Report 2012

EU Youth Report

The EU Youth Report 2012 summarises the results of the first work cycle of the EU Youth Strategy (2010-2012) and proposes priorities for the next three years. It presents new and revealing statistics on how the situation of young people in the European Union has been affected by the financial crisis.

According to the EU Youth Report, nearly all Member States report that the EU Youth Strategy has reinforced existing priorities at national level since it was launched in January 2010. This includes focusing on education, employment and entrepreneurship opportunities for young people, promoting social inclusion and health and providing young people with opportunities to take active part in society. The EU Youth Report proposes new priorities for the coming three years. The report highlights that youth employment will remain high on the EU agenda. For the coming years, the Strategy should focus more on the consequences of the current crisis on young people. This means more emphasis on social inclusion and health & well-being.

All Member States have submitted national reports which feed into both the Communication and the SWDs. Young people have been consulted in drawing up these reports, and different ministries have contributed. All national reports are posted here.

Communication on the EU Youth Report

Results of the first cycle of the OMC in the youth field (2010-2012)

Status of the situation of young people in the European Union

Leaflet EU Youth Report 2012 

Youth Studies Conference 2013

New Agendas on Youth and Young Adulthood 

University of Glasgow

8th to 10th April 2013 

Deadline: 1st December

The programme will include a mix of keynotes by leading researchers in the field, roundtable sessions focused on topical issues and theoretical concerns, and themed paper sessions. We encourage both new and experienced researchers and people from the Global  South as well as the Global North.

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Juventude e Práticas Artísticas e Culturais nas Metrópoles

Chamada Pública para o dossiê especial da Revista Cadernos de Arte e Antropologia “Juventude e Práticas Artísticas e Culturais nas Metrópoles”
Editores convidados: Andréa Barbosa e José Carlos Gomes da Silva
Data final para submissão: 15 de maio de 2012
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Colóquio Internacional – Culturas Jovens: Afro-Brasil América

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Prazo de inscrições dos resumos: 16/03/2012
Prazo para entrega dos trabalhos completos: 06/04/2012
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O Colóquio Internacional – Culturas Jovens: Afro-Brasil América pretende instaurar um espaço de debate sobre o tema apoiado no conceito de telescopia histórica. O hip hop, com seu apelo universal, cada vez mais marcado pelo policulturalismo e pelo hibridismo, exerce um papel essencial na formação dos jovens, auxiliando-os a compreender o mundo em que vivem.

Este Estado social não é para jovens (seminário OPJ)

Seminários Mundos Juvenis

15 de Fevereiro

ICS, Piso 0, sala 1
Horário: 17H30


Coordenação: Maria Manuel Vieira e Vítor Sérgio Ferreira
ICS-UL

Este Estado social não é para jovens

Hugo Mendes (CESNOVA – FCSH/UNL)

Resumo: Os Estados sociais dos países prósperos aprenderam a viver, desde há cerca de duas décadas, num regime de permanente dificuldades financeiras. Embora as despesas sociais tenham atingido, na maioria dos países, um tecto que se mantém relativamente inalterado, os problemas sociais a que os Estados sociais são chamados a dar resposta não diminuíram; pelo contrário, a somar aos riscos tradicionais a que os Estados sociais deram historicamente resposta - velhice, invalidez, doença e desemprego -, surgiram novos riscos que colocaram pressão financeira, institucional e política sobre a arquitectura de sistemas públicos tradicionalmente difíceis de reformar: o fenómeno da exclusão social; a entrada massiva das mulheres no mercado de trabalho; o problema dos trabalhadores pobres; o desemprego de longa duração; e a inserção profissional e protecção social dos jovens.

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Géographies des enfants et des jeunes

Bonjour à tous,
C'est avec grand plaisir que nous vous annonçons la publication en ligne du troisième numéro des Carnets de Géographes consacré aux "Géographies des enfants et des jeunes", numéro spécial coordonné par Sonia Lehman-Frisch et Jeanne Vivet.

http://www.carnetsdegeographes.org/index.php

Nous vous souhaitons une bonne lecture! Et vous remercions de bien vouloir diffuser cette information le plus largement possible!

L'Equipe des Carnets
Jeanne Vivet, Karine Ginisty et Amandine Spire

Building Capacity for Ethical Research with Children & Young People (report)

The project has drawn on and enriched the existing knowledge base about ethical research within the Childwatch Network, and capitalised on the information shared at the Child Participatory Research Roundtable at the 2009 Childrens Rights at a Crossroads Conference in Addis Ababa. It has provided useful information about the ethical issues and challenges facing researchers undertaking research with children.
Existing resources and publications that provide guidelines to researchers have been identified and collated. The information can be used to expand the discussion on appropriate Child Research Methodologies, interface with the work of the Childwatch Training Courses for Young Researchers to build research capacity.

Published Mar 17, 2011

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Crianças e Jovens em Risco

VII Jornada de Pesquisa e Intercâmbio do Nipiac

Adolescent Ambassadors

March 23 - 24, 2012
Workshop at the GHI

German Historical Institute

Washington DC

Adolescent Ambassadors 
20th Century Youth Organizations and International Relations

This workshop seeks to add to the burgeoning historiography on non-state actors in international relations by focusing on youth and youth organizations. Parallel to the proliferation of inter- and transnational organizations around the turn of the century, Western scientists invented the concept of adolescence to demarcate an intermediate period between childhood and adulthood. The contention that adolescence was an unstable life phase, a developmental stage marked by extreme vitality and insecurity, persuaded policymakers across borders to establish domestic institutions designed to shape, educate, and improve an allegedly erratic youth. But...

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5th Summer University around the topic of CR - this edition is on "CR and the media"

Venue: Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

Date: 4-8 July 2011

Registrations until: 30 May 2011 
www.lecide.be 

Objective: Sensibilize participants to a general culture of CR. A scientific committee of international experts defines a key topic on CR that the participants will work on during 5 consecutive days. Interdisciplinary approach and intercultural dimension (students from different disciplines, members of international institutions and experts working in the field: all who have considerable experience in the area of "media"). Course includes theoretical interventions as well as case studies, debates and practical activities.

 

MA in Children, Youth and International Development

This course is designed to equip you with the conceptual understanding and breadth of empirical knowledge that will enable you to critically evaluate policy and practice in the area of children, youth and development and give you the skills necessary to design and undertake research relating to children, youth and development. It is available full time or part time and can incorporate a short placement.
Further details: http://www.brunel.ac.uk/courses/postgraduate/children,-youth-and-international-development-ma.
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For further information: nicola.ansell@brunel.ac.uk

Colóquio Olhares sobre os Jovens em Portugal

Instituto de Ciências Sociais/UL

2-3 Junho, 2011

Tendo como pretexto o Ano Internacional da Juventude, o colóquio Olhares sobre os jovens em Portugal: saberes, políticas, acções pretende não apenas fazer um estado da arte da produção científica nacional mais relevante sobre a juventude, mas aproveitar também esse momento internacionalmente simbólico para mapear, reflectir e debater sobre as políticas públicas mais recentes e as modalidades de intervenção social destinadas aos mais jovens e/ou empreendidas pelos próprios.
 

Público-alvo: Investigadores e estudantes de pós-graduação, decisores políticos, técnicos da administração, dirigentes associativos e técnicos de intervenção social.
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Youth, Inequalities and the Future of Rio de Janeiro

INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR

"YOUTH, INEQUALITIES AND THE FUTURE OF RIO DE JANEIRO" 

Rio de Janeiro, June 6-8, 2011

Rio de Janeiro is known for its beauty, for the warmth of its people, for carnival and samba. But it is also known for its social and economic inequalities, its social and political problems, most especially poverty and social violence. After decades of economic decadence (the reasons of which are quite consensual in the literature), sheer social and political problems have accumulated, shortening the horizon of expectations of its inhabitants, increasing the chance that companies and individuals choose to leave the city, reducing the will to participate in the political process, feeding violence and a problematic sociability. The idea of a "problematic sociability", of course, has much to do with how young people live and relate to other social categories as they constantly test the boundaries of that very sociability while negotiating or affirming their social and political identities. Youth has always been at the center of concerns about what to do in a social environment characterized by strong inequalities of opportunities, possibilities and results.

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Conferência Internacional Jovens, Direitos e Saúde Sexual e Reprodutiva

Promovida pela APF
Conselho Nacional da Juventude
Instituto Português da Juventude
27 de Maio, instalações do IPJ, junto ao Parque das Nações, Lisboa.

O evento integra-se no projecto SAFE II – Sexual Awareness for Europe II – um projecto participado por 14 países e APFs da Europa, apoiado pela OMS e Comissão Europeia e que se centra nos Direitos e na Saúde Sexual e Reprodutiva dos Jovens, abraçando nomedamente questões como a Educação Sexual nas Escolas, os serviços de saúde para jovens e o trabalho com jovens em situação de vulnerabilidade social.

Contacto: Dra. Sara Duarte, 213853993 ou saraduarte@apf.pt

Children and Youth in a Changing World

Organised by the IUAES Commission on Anthropology of Children, Youth and Childhood
Bhubaneswar, India
November 26-30, 2012

The 2012 Inter-congress of International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES) is a multi-disciplinary international conference on “Children and Youth in a Changing World”. We will examine childhood cross-culturally and historically to gain the richest and best-informed perspective for looking at children in the present and moving forward.  The principal aim of this congress is to bring anthropologists in academia, governmental organisations, non-governmental organisations and agencies working on and with children from different parts of the world and offer them a common platform to address various emerging issues relating to children and childhood.

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Children and Young People's Participation in Planning and Regeneration

Day, L., Sutton, L. and Jenkins, S. (2011) Children and Young People's Participation in Planning and Regeneration: A final report to the Ecorys Research Programme 2010-11. UK: Ecorys.

This report presents the findings from a research study carried out by Ecorys in partnership with Loughborough University, to examine the evidence for children and young people’s participation in planning and regeneration.

The main purpose of this report is to present the detailed findings from the research study. Our intention was to draw together into one place the very diverse range of academic and non-academic studies that have been undertaken in this field, and to reflect upon the lessons for policy and practice at the current point in time; when children and young people's participation is framed by challenging economic circumstances in the UK and internationally. Whilst the report has a particular focus on the UK situation, it also draws upon research literature and practice examples from Europe, South America, North America and Australasia to provide a comparison. The findings are set within the over-arching context of the 1989 UN Convention of the Rights of the Child (CRC). 

Law, policy and practice for children and young people: the role of social science research

23 September, 2011


Teesside University
(Darlington Campus)

Middlesbrough, UK

Deadline: 6 May 


 
This conference will critically examine the relationship between social science research and the design and implementation of law and policy concerning children and young people.

The conference will:
- explore the relationships and tensions between these objectives in a multi-disciplinary forum
- advance the role of social policy research within policy-making, practice and wider public debates.

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Media, Crianças e Jovens

Seminário de Mestrado (início: 8 de fevereiro 2011)
Professor responsável: Professora Doutora Cristina Ponte
Departamento: Ciências da Comunicação
Horas semanais: 4 / Língua de ensino: Português
Créditos ECTS: 10.0 / 16 sessões de 3 hrs

Objectivos: A influência dos media sobre crianças e jovens (0-18 anos) é um tema recorrente, frequentemente associada a relações de causalidade de difícil confirmação. Crianças e jovens têm uma presença crescente nas notícias enquanto lideram no uso de media digitais em países como Portugal, crescem as indústrias culturais direccionadas para consumos que lhes são destinados e as preocupações para com o seu presente e futuro. O presente Seminário irá ao encontro destas diversas perspectivas, trabalhando questões relacionadas com a representação de crianças e jovens nas notícias e noutros espaços dos media, bem como dimensões da sua própria experiência com os media, numa perspectiva histórica, do século XIX à contemporaneidade.
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The Right Stuff

The Children’s Rights Alliance for England (CRAE) has launched a taster issue of "The Right Stuff" – the human rights magazine by and for children and young people.

You can read the magazine here: http://issuu.com/krishnacrae/docs/the_right_stuff_magazine

Funded by Mediabox, the magazine features stories of children who have suffered rights violations, as well as inspirational accounts of children taking action, interviews with human rights activists and a dedicated under 10s section. The Right Stuff magazine was designed and written by more than 30 under 18 year-olds from across England, with the aim of promoting young people’s interest in children’s human rights and encouraging them to take action to achieve change for children.

The magazine is available to download at www.crae.org.uk. Enquiries concerning the Right Stuff can be sent to Krishna Maroo at kmaroo@crae.org.uk