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Issue 3, year 2
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Interest in CATCH-EyoU


We are happy to introduce the Third CATCH-EyoU newsletter

It will allow you to access the latest information on the CATCH-EyoU project, to know what we are planning to do, to be updated on our next events and have some highlights on our people, our results and our ideas.
We are glad of your attention to our newsletter.

If you have an interest in youth civic and political engagement, youth active citizenship, civic education and EU, this newsletter is for you

Table of contents

Who are the CATCH-EyoU members

Introducing the University of Bologna team

Introducing the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens team

The Schools' corner

Italian high school students reflect on their participation to the project and to the Athens’ conference

The German students’ trip to Athens

The Consortium Meeting, February 2017

Spotlight: the Athens’ conference

An overview

An Interview with Airi-Alina Allaste – professor in Sociology, the School of Governance, Law and Society in Tallinn University, and member of the International Advisory Board of the CATCH-EyoU project

Ariadne Vromen lecture on ”Imagining Political Futures: Young People’s New Approaches To Participation”

Where are we so far

Focusing on inequalities in youth active citizenship: findings from large European survey (WP4)

What's next

The fifth consortium meeting in Porto

Contributors and Credits
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CATCH -EyoU is the acronym of Constructing AcTive CitizensHip with European Youth: Policies, Practices, Challenges and Solutions. The project, funded with 2.498.787,00 € under the H2020 Call “The Young Generation in an Innovative, Inclusive and Sustainable Europe” deals with the strategic challenge “Societal and political engagement of young people and their perspectives on Europe".
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CATCH-EyoU deals with democracy

CATCH -EyoU builds on the ideas of passionate scholars of different disciplines (Psychology, Political Science, Sociology, Media and Communications, Education) across EU who decided to work together to ensure the continuation of participatory and representative democracy in EU. We are aware that our goal is very ambitious, and to pursue it we set up a huge research project that will contribute to identify the factors, located at different levels (psychological, developmental, macro social and contextual) influencing the different forms of youth active engagement in Europe.
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The Project’s structure

Through different studies, qualitative (WP3, WP5, WP6, WP8), quantitative (WP4, WP7), and an active citizenship intervention in schools (WP9) - see our web site here for a full description of each work package - the project will provide a multifaceted understanding of the different factors influencing the perspectives of young people on Europe and of the ways in which young people engage in society, how they approach public authorities and how they engage materially and symbolically in order to participate in the construction of the societies in which they live. Our approach is multidisciplinary and iterative, as our Pert shows clearly: we start with the theoretical workpackage, inform it with the empirical ones that deal with how Europe is socially constructed in young people’s experience; then we examine youth experiences with different approaches (longitudinal - quantitative, ethnographic - qualitative and participatory- mixed methods) and finally redesign the theory integrating the contributions of the different pieces of research.
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Catch-EyoU has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement (G.A NO 649538)
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The views and opinions expressed in these pages are the sole responsibility of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Commission