Crossing Borders, Connecting Research: YOUROPE’s Transnational Conversations in Action
One of the most distinctive features of the YOUROPE project is not what happens within a single country — it is what happens when young researchers from different countries begin to talk to each other. Through Work Package 4, YOUROPE has been facilitating a series of transnational conversations that bring CLRA groups from across the […]
Have Your Say: YOUROPE Launches Survey on European Citizenship for Young People
The YOUROPE project is inviting young people across Europe to share their perspectives on European citizenship — and their responses will directly shape research that puts underrepresented youth at the heart of democratic participation. If you are aged between 16 and 30 and you live, work, or study in Europe, the YOUROPE team wants to […]
Building the Infrastructure for Collaboration: YOUROPE Partners as Keynote Speakers at iHED Conference
Behind every successful research project is a question that often goes unasked: how do the people working on it actually learn together? For the YOUROPE project, this is not an afterthought — it is a deliberate part of the design. Eva Janebová, Katherine Wimpenny, and Lucy Roberts were invited as keynote speakers at the STAR […]
Democracy in Education: A Student Co-Researcher’s Perspective
Josh Pino-Graham, a design student at Coventry University and YOUROPE co-researcher, recently attended the DEMOCRAT Conference on Education for Democracy in Barcelona. There, he sat on a Q&A panel discussing how to make education more democratic. He spoke from his unique perspective as both a current student and active co-researcher.
Connecting and Building Democratic Space Across Europe: YOUROPE Consortium Gathers in Brussels
NOTE: This article draws on a write-up by Dr Kayden J Schumacher. Read his full account of the Brussels meeting here.Researchers and partners from across Europe gathered in Brussels for the latest YOUROPE Horizon Europe consortium meeting, hosted at the Coventry University Brussels Hub. For many participants, it was their first opportunity to meet at […]
YOUROPE’s Second In-Person Meeting: A Year of Learning, and the Road Ahead
A year into the YOUROPE project, the consortium gathered once again in Brussels — this time not to launch, but to reflect, deepen, and plan. On 12 and 13 November 2025, partners convened at Coventry University’s Brussels Hub for the project’s second in-person meeting. The agenda brought together two full days of collaborative work: reviewing […]
Youth Voices at the Council of Europe: YOUROPE at the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty
On the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, young researchers from the YOUROPE project stood before the Council of Europe in Strasbourg — not as observers, but as active participants in a ceremony dedicated to those whose voices are most often unheard. Oliwer and Wiktoria, young researchers from the YOUROPE project, joined Deputy Secretary […]
“Ghost Town”: Youth Researchers in Włocławek Investigate Why Young People Want to Leave
Włocławek, Poland. Population 100,000. A city where 74% of young people say it is not a good place to grow up in, and where most plan to leave — with no intention of coming back. Rather than accepting this as a fixed reality, a group of young researchers decided to prove that they were anything […]
Youth Research Takes Centre Stage at the Council of Europe’s INGO Conference
On a day dedicated to the role of civil society in European democracy, YOUROPE brought something distinctive to the Council of Europe’s magnificent Agora building in Strasbourg: the voices of young researchers from Poland, Turkey, the Netherlands, and the Czech Republic, sharing what they had found in their own communities. Laurence Guérin, together with colleagues […]
Decoding Urban Narratives: How CLRA Is Reshaping Media Education in the Czech Republic
What does a graffiti mural have in common with a billboard? Both are competing for your attention in urban space — but whose voice wins, and whose is silenced? These were among the questions explored when YOUROPE researchers brought Community-Led Research and Action into the heart of the Czech media education landscape. Patricie Kyslíková and […]