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Glossary of key concepts

• Biography and the Biographical Approach.
• Choice.
• Citizenship.
• Consumer Society.
• Culture and Cultural Capital.
• Democracy.
• Disadvantage.
• Discrimination.
• Education.
• Ethnic Minority Youth.
• Family.
• Flexibility.
• Gender.
• Generation and Intergenerational Relationships.
• Identity.
• Individualisation.
• Learning.
• Life Course.
• Lifestyle.
• Mobility.
• Negotiation.
• Network Capital - Social Capital.
• Other Glossaries.
• Parenthood.
• Participation.
• Public Policy.
• Racism.
• Self-understanding and Self-identity.
• Social Change - Modernisation.
• Social Exclusion/Inclusion.
• Social Inequality.
• Social Integration.
• Structure - Agency.
• Territory.
• Transition - Trajectory.
• Transition Regimes.
• Youth.
• Youth Culture.

Organisation and Partners

• Association of Regional and European Studies, Valencia.
• Austrian Institute for Youth Research, Vienna.
• Centre for European and Regional Youth Studies, University of Trnava.
• Dresden University of Technology.
• German Youth Institute, Munich.
• Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon.
• IRIS e.V., Institute for Regional Innovation and Social Research, Hechingen/Tübingen.
• National Agency for Supporting Youth Initiatives, Bucharest.
• National School for Public Health, Rennes.
• New Europe Centre for Regional Studies, Plovdiv.
• Organisation structure.
• Queen's University Belfast.
• University College Cork.
• University of Bologna.
• University of Copenhagen.
• University of Helsinki.
• University of Leiden.
• University of Ljubljana.
• University of Milano-Bicocca.
• UP2YOUTH Advisory Board.

Research Objectives

• Matrix of Research Questions.

Results

• UP2YOUTH Final Report.

Work Programme

• Expected Products and Outcomes.
• Overview.
• Time plan.
• Work programme in detail.

Contents of the "Ethnic youth and transitions" working group

• Implications for policy and practice.
• Research Questions.
• Results of the Lisbon workshop.
• Thematic Report on Transitions to Work.
• Transitions of ethnic minority youth: supported or marginalised?.
• Young people’s transitions in the migration society.

Related Research

• Jacobs University Bremen .
• Research Institute for the Quality of Life.
• "Ivan Hadjiyski" Institute for Social Values & Structures.
• Academy for Migration Studies in Denmark (AMID).
• Centro de Estudos e Investigação em Sociologia (CIES).
• Centro de Estudos em Migrações e Minorias Étnicas (CEMME).
• Dutch Institute of Demographic Development (NIDI) .
• Dutch Institute of Demographic Development (NIDI) .
• Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa (ICS).
• The Centre for Research on Ethnic Relations and Nationalism (CEREN).
• The Finnish Foundation for Cultural Policy Research (CUPORE).
• The Finnish Youth Research Society.
• The Migration Initiative, University of Copenhagen.
• The Resource Center for Ethnocultural Diversity (EDRC).
• The Society for the Study of Ethnic Relations and International Migration (ETMU) .
• University of Bremen, Faculty Educational Sciences.
• University of Jena (German-Israeli Research Consortium).
• URMIS – Research unit migrations and society.

The "Ethnic Youth and Transitions" working group

• Members of the working group.

Events

• 4th Conference Young People & Societies in Europe and around the Mediterranean, March 2009.
• Generations in flux - Oct. 2008.
• UP2YOUTH policy seminar, 5-6 March 2009.
• Youth and Youth Sociology in Europe, Jan. 09.

Latest Policy Development

• CoE: Resolution on Youth Policy.
• Commission adopts Communication on youth.
• European Commission launches Youth Report.
• Minorities' access to labour markets.
• UP2YOUTH at Federal Youth Curatorship.
• Youth in Spain 2008 Report.

New Publications

• "Have your say!".
• GHK - Study on active citizenship education.
• Studies in the Education of Adults.
• Supporting young people in Europe.
• Youth and Political Participation in Europe.
• Youth Transitions.

Project News

• Mapping the UP2YOUTH research field.
• Students from 5 countries discussing UP2YOUTH results.
• UP2YOUTH book on youth participation.
• UP2YOUTH findings in short.
• UP2YOUTH Newsletter - new issue 2-09.
• UP2YOUTH Policy Seminar held in Brussels.
• UP2YOUTH policy seminar, 5-6 March 2009.
• UP2YOUTH Results.
• UP2YOUTH Thematic Reports Online.
• Welcome to the UP2YOUTH Internet Portal.

Contents of the "Young Parenthood" working group

• Implications for policy and practice.
• Research Questions.
• Results of the Lisbon workshop - Young parenthood.
• Thematic Report on Transitions to Parenthood.
• Young parenthood: postponed, anticipated or redefined? .

Related Research

• "Ivan Hadjiyski" Institute for Social Values & Structures.
• ASSA – M (Agency for Social Services and Analysis).
• Centre for Household Income and Demographic Economics (CHILD).
• Centre for Population Studies, Sofia.
• Department of Sociology of the Family and Private Living Arrangements.
• Dutch Institute of Demographic Development (NIDI) .
• German Youth Institute (DJI).
• Laboratoire d'Economie et de Sociologie du travail (LEST).
• Panel Analysis of Intimate Relationships and Family Dynamics (PAIRFAM).
• Research Institute for the Quality of Life.
• Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences & Arts (ZRC-SAZU) .
• State Institute for Family Research at the University of Bamberg (ifb).

The "Young Parenthood" working group

• Members of the working group.

Contents of the "Young Participation" working group

• Implications for policy and practice.
• Research Questions.
• Results of the Lisbon workshop - Youth participation.
• Young people’s participation as agency in social change.
• Youth participation: active in the public - recognised or chased? .

Related Research

• Research Institute for the Quality of Life.
• "Ivan Hadjiyski" Institute for Social Values & Structures.
• Centre de Recherche Education et Formation (CREF).
• Centre d’étude de la vie politique française (CEVIPOF).
• Centre for European and regional Youth Research (CERYS).
• Centro de Estudos em Migrações e Minorias Étnicas (CEMME).
• Department of Applied Social Studies, University College Cork.
• Institute of information and prognosis in education system (UIPS).
• Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa (ICS).
• Istituto IARD.
• NGO Cittadinanzattiva (Active citizenship).
• Research Center on Economy and Statistics (CREST) .
• The Resource Center for Ethnocultural Diversity (EDRC).

The "Youth Participation" working group

• Members of the working group.

Content Archiv

Events

• Conflict, Citizenship and Civil Society, Sep 07.
• "Children and Migration: identities, mobilities and belonging(s)", May 2008.
• "Work with Young People: Advancing Theory, Policy And Practice", June 07.
• Conference on Emerging Adulthood, February 07.
• EARA conference, Turin, May 2008.
• European Congress of Family Science, Jun. 08.
• European Outreach Work Conference, Apr. 2008.
• Generating Alternatives conference, Sep. 08.
• Growing Up in a Liquid World, Sep. 08.
• International Conference on 'Mothers-Fathers. Parenthood between media representation and every day'.
• NYRIS 10: Bonds and Communities, Jun. 08.
• Transforming Transitions, April 07.
• Young People, New Technologies and Political Engagement, July 07.
• Youth Justice Conference, Cork, Apr. 08.
• Youth Matters? August 2008.

Latest Policy Development

• "Our Work. Our Place. Our Future.".
• "The power to decide - the right to welfare".
• 'Flexicurity' for Young People.
• Commission communication on youth participation.
• Council of Europe Youth Campaign.
• European Qualification Framework launched.
• Finnish EU Presidency.
• Latest FP7 developments.
• New YOUTH Programme.
• Regular European Youth Report?.
• Review of Youth Policy in the Slovak Republic.
• SALTO Youth Inclusion Forum - Antwerp 12-15 October 06.
• Transversal approach to youth policy.
• UNICEF releases study on well-being of children.
• Young people and job growth.

New Publications

• 'Planned' teenage pregnancy.
• A European framework for youth policy.
• A New Youth?.
• Contemporary youth research.
• Employment and Family Change.
• Eurobarometer 2007 survey on youth results published.
• Family Change, Parental Employment and Social Policy.
• Female employment patterns in West Germany, East Germany and Poland.
• Life projects for unaccompanied migrant minors.
• Migration Integration Policy Index.
• OECD-Study "Where Immigrants succeed...".
• Participation in Transition.
• Policies on integration and diversity in the OSCE.
• Political sozialization of young people.
• Second Generation in Europe and education.
• Social inclusion and young people.
• Social inclusion for young people: breaking down the barriers.
• Socioeconomic scope of youth work.
• Sociological Review 'Papers' - Monographic issue on Youth.
• The Central European Dimension of Youth Research.
• The changing face of welfare.
• The Modernization of Youth Transitions in Europe.
• Thematic Study on Policy Measures for Disadvantaged Youth.
• Toolkit on Youth Participation.
• Young citizens.

Project News

• Brussels seminar directions.
• First findings and emerging issues.
• Glossary of key concepts.
• Lisbon workshop: finding your way.
• New: UP2YOUTH Newsletter 1/2008.
• Results of the Lisbon workshop.
• Thematic Workshop, 1-4 November, Lisbon.
• Thematic Workshop, 19-22 October 2006, Valencia.
• UP2YOUTH at Federal Youth Curatorship.
• UP2YOUTH Newsletter 1/2006 published.
• UP2YOUTH Newsletter 1/2007 is online.

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