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Thank you again for signing up to receive regular 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. The past months, we've been very busy with different activities in the ten local cases and getting more experience in practising co-creative Citizen Social Science with our young co-researchers. Among others, YouCount members organised Dialogue Forums, held Living Labs with local stakeholders and even handed in Master Theses.
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Case Studies
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#1 Social inclusion of immigrant citizens in Italy
The Italian case takes place in Naples, Italy, and aims at fostering social cohesion in the Neapolitan urban community by providing local and immigrant citizens with further opportunities to socialise, meet, and exchange perspectives and viewpoints. In Naples, the high presence of foreign residents does not always correspond to a process of active social inclusion. Moreover, it endeavours to promote a local social network involving social and civic associations for the implementation and sustainability of the case. Along with local associations, a group of about 10 youths – both local and migrant ones – were recruited and trained to involve them in the case as citizen scientists. The Italian case is coordinated by The Department of Humanities of the University of Naples Federico II. Read more about YouCount's cases here.
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Evaluation
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#2 Voices from Youth in Hungary
This section focuses on evaluation. We ask YouCount youth across the nine countries about their experiences within the project. Our journey goes to Hungary this time, where we talked with Sára Balogh who was part of YouCount through her internship at the Environmental Social Science Research Group (ESSRG) in Budapest. Sára was involved in the Szeged case study and explored the role of innovation and entrepreneurship during her gap year. What do you get out of being a part of YouCount?
“I love that we can have a direct impact on the life of the local hard of hearing community and that we can create a channel where their challenges can reach urban social actors. It is important that our hard of hearing co-researchers get to see each other’s perspectives, and how they experienced different phases of life in very distinct ways. Through these sometimes unique but sometimes also similar stories, our research has a community-building aspect.” Which topics are most interesting for you in the project?
“Everything linked to social inequalities, social inclusion and sustainable development from a social science perspective." What should YouCount look at when it comes to social inclusion of youth?
"I believe that by bringing forward marginalised perspectives, science can become more inclusive.”
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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 national and international level 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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In autumn, we got the chance to participate with an interactive session and a poster at the conference on Citizen Science for Planetary Health organised by the European Citizen Science Association (ECSA) in Berlin.
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Neighbourhoods
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Young co-researchers Elias Mokhlis and Sumaya Ali Isse as well as our colleague Ingar Brattbakk from the Oslo team talked about their experiences in the project at “ Neighbourhoods - Public Spaces for Everybody” organised by UN Habitat about a month ago.
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Online exhibition
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YouCount is thrilled to be showcased in a current online exhibition of EU-funded Citizen Science projects. Can you spot us?
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Our colleague Asier Zafra from the Spanish team presented YouCount’s methodology and progress at the congress by Asociación Española de Ciencia Política y de la Administración (AECPA) last autumn.
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How does it feel?
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Sara Berge Lorenzen from Oslo presented a planned paper at the American Anthropological Association in Seattle (USA). In “How does it feel? The embodied experience of social inclusion among minority youth [...]”, Sara and her colleagues want to describe the research process behind identifying drivers for social inclusion among youth involved as co-researchers.
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Music festival
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The Danish team participated in a music festival in Copenhagen. In a blog entry, our young co-researcher Emilie Egelund Rademacher from Aalborg University reflects how the festival can serve as a space where young citizen social scientists can share their innovative ideas on how to improve their neighbourhood.
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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. We were quite active on our blog and resource page where we reported by now on almost all cases. Our Early Career Researchers campaign on LinkedIn is also still up and running – So check out what you’ve missed! Below you find both recent publications as well as project news:
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Consortium meetings
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We had not just one but two consortium meetings over the past half year. In Copenhagen, we got the chance to get to know each other better and discussed Youth Citizen Social Science. Last month, we reunited digitally in our last consortium meeting of the year. We shared our struggles and achievements from the local cases, discussed our evaluation, gender, social inclusion and app studies as well as planned events and publications for 2023.
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Conference review
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How can Citizen Science be more engaging? What does engagement entail? Who needs to be engaged? What are the challenges and opportunities of engagement in CS? Our colleague Cathrine Winther from Aalborg University wrote a conference review in the Journal of Science Communication to address these questions, originally debated by researchers, students, and practitioners at the ‘Engaging Citizen Science Conference 2022’, held in April at Aarhus University, Denmark.
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Young and unaccompanied
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Moustapha is a young citizen scientist from our research team in Spain. In this radio interview (in Basque), he tells his story as a young unaccompanied migrant.
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Improve how youth belong
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Julie Ridley from the University of Central Lancashire and her colleagues have launched a call for more young co-researchers to join their case study. In a TV interview, Julie talked about "how we can improve how they [youth in Preston] belong".
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Resources
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We regularly publish new resources on our website such as the deliverable on open data concerning social inclusion. The data sample includes research outputs in terms of case posters from all ten cases, qualitative data concerning youths’ views on social inclusion and data from the co-creative innovation process of the YouCount App Toolkit.
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YouCount App
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The YouCount App is finally ready! After very hard work, we can finally plan an App event week in the beginning of 2023. We are looking forward to one week of intensive data collection with joint preparation, support, and co-analysis across the different countries and cases. You can have a glance at the App in the web browser version or the app store versions for Android or Apple phones.
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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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