Workpackages
WP1 - Coordination and managament
Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna is responsible for the management of the project.
WP2 - Development of an integrated theory of youth active citizenship in the EU
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
London School of Economics and Political Science
It provided an extensive and critical review of existing theoretical and empirical literature, across different disciplines on: the factors influencing young people trust toward EU as well as other beliefs, attitudes and dispositions toward the EU; evidence of studies and interventions addressing how to stimulate societal and political engagement of young people; and the literature on young people European identity and sense of belonging to the EU and on their understanding of citizenship and perceived roles, rights and duties e as EU citizens. It will provide a provisional theory of active citizenship of young people that will be subsequently updated.
WP3 - Public authorities engaging with youth
Örebro University
It focused on the analysis of key discourses on youth active citizenship policies and how policies are received and implemented by policymakers, examining also if and how policies and public authorities acknowledge young people’s diversity.
WP4 - Exploiting European data and testing the integrated theory of youth active EU citizenship
Friedrich-Schiller University
Masaryk University
It reanalyzed existing European surveys on opinion and attitudes toward Europe and EU, as well as surveys monitoring youth civic and political engagement. It included empirical test of the reasons for declining trust emerging from the theory and of the factors influencing societal and political engagement, accounting for differences based on young people cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds, ethnicity, gender and their intersection.
WP5 - Representation of the EU and youth active EU citizenship in the media environment
Masaryk University
Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna
It analyzed how the media represent the EU and youth engagement, in national and EU mainstream and progressive/alternative media.
WP6 - Representation of the EU and youth active EU citizenship in educational contexts
University of Porto
It analyzed key discourses on active citizenship and EU in schools examining how history textbooks as well as teachers involved in civic/citizenship education represent EU and deliver citizenship education, and how this impacts on young people’s understanding of their role as citizens.
WP7 - Processes in youth's construction of active EU citizenship
Friedrich-Schiller University
Masaryk University
It collected longitudinal data on adolescents and young adults to test processes influencing societal and political engagement of young people, (including those who have different types of cross-national mobility experiences) in different European countries. WP7 assessed differences depending on macro social factors as well as age, gender, socioeconomic and educational background, and life situation. Differences according to young people’s cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds, ethnicity, gender and their intersection, as well as macro-social influences have been accounted for in this WP.
WP 8 - Meaning and practices of youth participation and cases of successful participation
London School of Economics and Political Science
It mapped and explored participatory practices of young people in EU, across a range of languages, meanings and media, and will provide an in-depth analysis of their phenomenological significance.
WP9 - Modelling and testing the processes of construction of youth active EU citizenship: a social innovation intervention
Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna
Örebro University
It proposed a school-based socially innovative intervention that involved students and teachers. It examined how young people engage in social issues having local and European relevance, combining a participatory approach, community analysis, and structured dialogue with public authorities and has been evaluated before, after and during its implementation.
WP10 - Impact and dissemination: knowledge, tools and recommendations to promote and enact youth active citizenship in the EU
Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna
Forum Nazionale dei Giovani
It exploited the findings to provide to relevant stakeholders ideas, recommendations and instruments to strengthen youths’ engagement and promote their active citizenship in EU.