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Thank you again for signing up to receive quarterly updates on the YouCount project. With every newsletter, you learn more about YouCount and the people behind the project. We travel to one of our cases and introduce you to young citizen scientists and other project members in each issue. The newsletter informs you about upcoming events and updates you on those you might have missed. We're busy setting up local cases, training our young co-researchers and getting more experience in practising co-creative Citizen Social Science.
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Case Studies
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#1 Hard-Of-Hearing Youth in Hungary
Hard-of-hearing youth is a marginalised social group facing many challenges in terms of inequality in education and employment opportunities as well as exclusion from various social spheres. YouCount aims to support the inclusion of hard-of-hearing youth in Szeged, Hungary. Hearing and hard-of-hearing senior researchers from the University of Szeged and youth investigate together the challenges hard-of-hearing youth face when entering into adulthood. By connecting companies, social services, schools and civil society organisations with youth, the case study promotes collaborations and networks. Working together fosters the development of innovative tools and methodologies towards inclusive science and research. Read more about YouCount's cases here.
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Evaluation
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#2 Voices from Youth in Denmark
This section focuses on evaluation. We ask YouCount youth across the nine countries about their experiences within the project. This time, our journey goes to Copenhagen, Denmark, where we talked with student and co-researcher Emilie Egelund Rademacher.
What do you get out of being a part of YouCount?
“Being a part of YouCount is such a learning experience for me. The project helps me to reflect on how important it is to be a part of your own city, and how I, as an individual, can help other young citizens feel like they can make decisions about their city. In addition, I’ve got a wider perspective and insight into how my city operates."
Which challenges do you face as a young participant in the project?
"Fortunately, I haven’t faced any real challenges due to my age in this project. What might be difficult as a young participant is lack of experience. However, I get to try new things and push my boundaries, which is nice."
What should YouCount look at when it comes to social inclusion of youth?
"I feel the most important part of social inclusion is feeling safe. I think YouCount should focus on creating a safe environment where there’s room for everyone to learn and grow as an individual and as a group.”
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Events
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#3 YouCount's network is steadily growing! We participate in seminars, conferences and workshops at both the national and international levels to present our project and become more visible. We are happy to share some of the highlights from the past months.
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Key learnings from our webinars
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YouCount organised a series of webinars last autumn. Did you miss them or want to refresh your memory? We published our 10 key learnings summarising the report on our knowledge sharing webinars organised together with EIE WG. We invite you to read both and to share your thoughts on how to increase social inclusion of young people in Europe through Youth Citizen Social Science (Y-CSS) by commenting under the blog post. |
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Celebrate our female researchers
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On 8th of March, YouCount took the opportunity to celebrate its female researchers on International Women's Day. Read about it in our blog post written by Dina Dabaghie from our Swedish team at VA (Public & Science). |
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Engaging Citizen Science Conference
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Our colleagues Cathrine Winther (PhD student, Aalborg University), Michael Søgaard Jørgensen (Associate professor, AU) and Eglė Butkevičienė (Professor, Kaunas University of Technology) participated in the Engaging Citizen Science Conference in Aarhus, Denmark. Together with SEEDS, YouCount organised a workshop on Empowering youth through Youth Citizen (Social) Science (Y-CSS). You can read more about the workshop and find out who won the poster prize here. |
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News
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#4 A lot is happening in YouCount and its project members are busy documenting these processes. It can be difficult to find time for analysing and reflecting on the broader picture as well as getting to know colleagues working in other countries. We always try our best to find a balance between the two. Keeping this in mind, you find both recent publications as well as project news in this section:
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Citizen Science & SDGs in Lithuania
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YouCount member Egle Butkeviciene and her colleague Monika Skaržauskaitė published a paper on the ecosystem of Citizen Science development in Lithuania and its potential to address the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In Lithuania, Citizen Science has the potential to contribute to SDG 15 (Life on Land), as well as SDG 4, 10, 11 and others. The findings further show that it can help to reduce inequalities. As the YouCount project aims to use Citizen Social Science to foster social inclusion of youth, SDG 10 (Reducing Inequalities) is of major importance. |
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Open-access book on "young co-creation"
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Our colleagues from Oslo Metropolitan University published an open access book in Norwegian and English. Aina Landsverk Hagen, Sara Berge Lorenzen and Ingar Brattbakk are discussing experiences and dilemmas of including children, teens, and young adults in research projects. |
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Meet our Early Career Researchers
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Have you met our Early Career Researchers yet? Each week you can get to know one of the young YouCount researchers on LinkedIn. The ECR in the photo above shows Flora Gatti, a post-doc research fellow at the Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II. |
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Ten cases across nine countries
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Do you need a quick recap on what the YouCount project is actually about? There you go: Located in nine European countries, YouCount works to co-create new knowledge and innovations that increase social inclusion of youth across ten case studies. Each case focuses on youth who face different challenges linked to social inclusion. This way, we want to identify positive drivers for a more inclusive society with and for youth. YouCount will further evaluate how its co-creative approach based on citizen social science works out in practice – in each case as well as across cases. We see this evaluation itself as a co-creative process which starts right here. In every newsletter, we hear from youth how they are experiencing the project.
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Stay tuned and get in touch!
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Stay updated on developments and reach out to us by signing up to our community of interest, checking out our blog and following YouCount on social media: |
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