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17 October 2025

“Ghost Town”: Youth Researchers in Włocławek Investigate Why Young People Want to Leave

In Włocławek, Poland, young researchers from the University of Lodz surveyed 191 peers, conducted six stakeholder interviews, and launched an Instagram campaign to share what they found: that 74% of young people in their city feel it is no place for them, and most plan to leave.
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16 October 2025

Youth Research Takes Centre Stage at the Council of Europe’s INGO Conference

Young researchers from Poland, Turkey, the Netherlands, and the Czech Republic presented their community research at the Council of Europe’s INGO Conference in Strasbourg, sharing findings from their CLRA work before an audience of civil society organisations from across Europe.
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13 October 2025

Decoding Urban Narratives: How CLRA Is Reshaping Media Education in the Czech Republic

YOUROPE researchers led a hands-on research walk at Seznam.cz’s Media Education Festival, guiding educators and librarians through how Community-Led Research and Action equips young people to decode urban spaces, challenge media narratives, and tell their own stories.
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23 September 2025

YOUROPE at the European Women’s Lobby Agora Summer School

YOUROPE’s Patricie Kyslíková brought the CLRA methodology to the European Women’s Lobby’s Agora Summer School in Brussels, co-facilitating a workshop on sisterhood with 40 young feminists from across Europe. Participants described the experience as immersive, interactive, and immediately transferable to their own contexts.
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10 September 2025

YOUROPE at IOM Summer School: Amplifying Migrant Voices Through Community-Led Research

University of South Bohemia researchers Patricie Kyslíková and Salim Murad presented YOUROPE’s Community-Led Research and Action methodology at the IOM Summer School in Prague, exploring how participatory approaches can enrich migration studies and amplify the voices of young people with lived experience of migration.
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5 August 2025

When Young People Lead: YOUROPE’s Democracy Day Transforms Democratic Education in Augsburg

On 21st July 2025, the University of Augsburg and Holbein-Gymnasium hosted a groundbreaking Democracy Day, bringing together 177 pupils and 40 university student researchers for co-created workshops that put young people’s voices at the centre of democracy education and European citizenship.
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5 July 2025

YOUROPE Presents Community-Led Research at ANGEL Conference 2025

In June 2025, YOUROPE researcher Luca Morini presented his work on participatory mapping and playful design methods at the ANGEL Conference in Berlin, sparking new connections with fellow European democracy projects and reinforcing the value of community-led approaches to youth engagement.
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30 June 2025

Young Researchers Take Centre Stage: YOUROPE Students Present Community Research at International Conference

YOUROPE Students Present Community Research at International Conference Student researchers from the YOUROPE project presented their Community-Led Action Research findings to 70 participants at the University of Łódź’s International Students’ Conference on Social Problems and Social Work in Europe.
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21 April 2025

Community-Led Research and Action: Students Driving Change in The Hague

Community-Led Research and Action: Students Driving Change in The Hague Students from The Hague University of Applied Sciences have been pioneering the first Community-Led Research and Action (CLRA) sessions, tackling pressing social issues through research and engagement.
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14 March 2025

Yourope at EYE on TAMK 2025: Showcasing Innovation and Collaboration

TAMK Showcases the Yourope Project at Eye on TAMK 2025 Tampere University of Applied Sciences (TAMK) has presented the Yourope Project at Eye on TAMK 2025, an international multidisciplinary event held from 11th to 13th March in Tampere, Finland.
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28 February 2025

First CLRA results shared at a two-day mini conference​

First CLRA results shared at a two-day mini conference During a regional event, which took place between 28 and 29 January 2025, the students of the University of Lodz shared the initial results of their CLRA research.
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28 February 2025

Polish youth joining YOUROPE and leading the research

Polish youth starting CLRA research From November 2024 to February 2025, the University of Lodz ran the first groups of students according to the Community-lead Research and Action (CLRA) methodology.
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Framework and Toolkit

Youth-informed theory and a practical EU Citizenship Toolkit
 
Where the road leads: a grassroots-informed theoretical framework on European citizenship and democracy, built from the ground up on youth perspectives, and a youth-centred EU Citizenship Toolkit that turns these insights into practical resources for educators, youth workers and young people themselves. Results are expected in 2027.
Coming Soon

Main Survey

Measuring what matters, in language grounded in youth voices
 
The findings of the exploratory survey feed directly into the design of the main survey: a larger instrument grounded in young people’s own language, experiences and priorities. Instead of asking young people to respond to researchers’ categories, the main survey measures what matters in terms young people themselves have shaped.
Coming Soon

Exploratory Youth Survey

Learning from young people in their own words
 
Rather than starting from predefined assumptions, YOUROPE wants to learn directly from young people in their own words. This exploratory survey invites young people across Europe to share their views and experiences on citizenship, democracy, participation, inclusion and digital life. It is anonymous, voluntary, available in nine languages, and takes 10–15 minutes: an important first step in a co-creation process that places youth voices at the centre of the research.
JISC Survey

Research Foundations

Policy analysis and systematic literature review

Every roadmap needs a starting point. WP3 began with two parallel strands of research: a policy analysis mapping how youth citizenship and democratic participation are addressed across Europe, and a systematic literature review of what existing research tells us about young people, democracy and participation. Together, these form the evidence base of WP3 and are published as part of the WP3 report.
WP3 report

Dialogue Map

Turning findings into conversations on the dimensions of democratic life 
 
Building on the research findings, the team in Augsburg developed the Dialogue Map: a tool that turns what we learned into conversations. It is organised around key dimensions of democratic life, from youth voice and European citizenship to participation, inclusion and digital citizenship, each with a key question and discussion prompts to open up dialogue with and among young people.
Dialogue Map

D6 · Dimension

Digital Citizenship

Digital environments as civic and political space

KEY QUESTION
What does it mean to be a citizen online?
DISCUSSION PROMPTS
  • What do you do online that could influence others or public issues — even in small ways?
  • Do you feel that what you see online is shaped by algorithms or platforms? Can you give an example?
  • Where online do you feel like an active citizen — and where do you feel like just a user?

D5 · Dimension

Inclusion and Justice

Structural inequalities and intersecting identities

KEY QUESTION

Do you think everyone has equal opportunities to participate in society?

DISCUSSION PROMPTS
  • Who is often excluded or overlooked in your community — and why do you think that is?
  • What rules, habits, or systems make participation harder for some people than others?
  • What would need to change for participation to be fairer and more inclusive?

D4 · Dimension

Participation and Power

Procedural vs. substantive participation

KEY QUESTION

When does participation actually make a difference in your life?

DISCUSSION PROMPTS
  • Describe a situation where you participated — in a council, survey, protest, vote — but it led to no change. What did that feel like?
  • Where do you feel you genuinely have influence? At school, at home, online, in your city?
  • What is the difference between being asked for your opinion and actually having a say?

D3 · Dimension

European Citizenship

Europe as lived democratic space

KEY QUESTION
What does ‘Europe’ mean to you in your everyday life?
DISCUSSION PROMPTS
  • What does 'European Citizenship' mean to you? Describe it in a few words — or say what it doesn't mean to you.
  • Do you feel connected to Europe? Why, or why not?
  • What would need to change for Europe to feel more real or relevant to you?

D2 · Dimension

Youth Voice & Knowledge

Young people as knowers, not just learners

KEY QUESTION

Do you feel that young people’s voices and experiences are taken seriously?

DISCUSSION PROMPTS
  • Are there things you know or experience that are not taken seriously in school or in society?
  • When do you feel your opinion is genuinely valued — and when is it ignored?
  • Think of a moment when you were heard. What made that possible? And a moment when you weren't — what got in the way?