I Stream: Active Youth Participation

1.1. Comparative Youth Participation
1.2. Comparative Youth Participation (continues)
1.3. Youth Civic Participation
1.4. Youth Civic Participation (continues)

Content of the sessions

1.1. Comparative Youth Participation

Coordinator

Anu Gretschel
PhD, Researcher
Youth Research Network
Finland
E-mail anu.gretschel@youthresearch.fi

Eva Feldmann-Wojtachnia
Senior Research Fellow
Head of Research Group Youth & Europe
University of Munich
Germany
E-mail feldmann@fgje.de

Participants

The multiple faces of youth media participation
Hirsjärvi, Irma of University of Jyväskylä

Geographical Divide? Attitudes towards Democracy in Urban/Rural Context in Sweden
Ekman, Tiina (tiina.ekman@ungdomsstyrelsen.se) & Kolouh, Lidija & Wohlgemuth, Daniel of Swedish National Board for Youth Affairs

Invisible Communities: The Role of Youth Services for Civic Participation among Young People at risk in Canada and Germany
Schnute, Marion of University of Hildesheim/ University of British Columbia

Youth Councils in the German State of Baden-Württemberg and Finnland: Attitudes and Structures
Müller, Sebastian of University of Education Freiburg

Time and Place

Sessions 1
Monday 13th
15.30-17.00

EDU 244
Educarium,
Assistentinkatu 5

1.2. Comparative Youth Participation (continues)

Coordinator

Anu Gretschel
PhD, Researcher
Youth Research Network
Finland
E-mail anu.gretschel@youthresearch.fi

Eva Feldmann-Wojtachnia
Senior Research Fellow
Head of Research Group Youth & Europe
University of Munich
Germany
E-mail feldmann@fgje.de

Participants

The Importance of Conventional Citizenship Investigated. Examining Country Differences of Adolescents’ Perspectives on Conventional Citizenship in Europe.
Franck, Eva of University of Antwerp & De Groof, Saskia of Free University of Brussels & Elchardus, Mark of Free University of Brussels & Kavadias, Dimokritos of Free University of Brussels

Youth Media Participation: a Comparative Study
Kotilainen, Sirkku of University of Tampere & Suoninen, Annikka of University of Jyväskylä

Youth Political Participation in Transnational Agoras
Laine, Sofia of Finnish Youth Research Network

Youth Civic Knowledge and Civic Attitudes: Results from ICCS2009
Suoninen, Annikka of University of Jyväskylä

Time and Place

Sessions 2
Tuesday 14th
09.00-10.30

EDU 244
Educarium,
Assistentinkatu 5

1.3. Youth Civic Participation

Coordinators

Tiina Ekman
PhD, Political science
Swedish National Board for Youth Affairs
Sweden
E-mail tiina.ekman@ungdomsstyrelsen.se

Lidija Kolouh
PhD, International pedagogics
Swedish National Board for Youth Affairs
Sweden
E-mail lidija.kolouh@ungdomsstyrelsen.se

Daniel Wohlgemuth
PhD, Political science
Swedish National Board for Youth Affairs
Sweden
E-mail daniel.wohlgemuth@ungdomsstyrelsen.se

Participants

Youth Civic Engagement an Opportunity to Promote Equality?
McArdle, Sheila of The UNESCO Child and Family Research Centre, The National University of Ireland

E-democracy Tool Initiative Channel for Young People
Oinas, Merja-Maaria of City of Oulu

Right, Duties and Participation in a Welfare Democracy
Sass, Ditte Strunge of Brunel University, London

Time and Place

Sessions 3
Tuesday 14th
11.00-12.30

EDU 244
Educarium,
Assistentinkatu 5

1.4. Youth Civic Participation (continues)

Coordinators

Participants

Conventional and Nonconventional Participation – Youth Survey 2010-2011 in Ostrobothnia
Söderberg, Patrik & Nyman-Kurkiala, Pia & Nygård, Mikael of Åbo Academy University

Who Shall, Who Can, Who May? Young People’s Attitudes towards the Distribution of Voting Rights.
Ptaszynska, Aleksandra & Walter, Florian of University of Vienna

Youth Movement in Ukraine: a Case Study
Svyetlov, Oleksandr of NBB

Constructing “Activist-Self” in Russian Youth Protest Movements
Lyytikäinen, Laura of University of Helsinki

Time and Place

Sessions 4
Tuesday 14th
15.30-17.00

EDU 244
Educarium,
Assistentinkatu 5