Youth Research & Knowledge | Youthpolicy.org

Youth research, as a specialist area of social scientific inquiry, covers the life-phase ‘youth’ in all its facets. We try to mirror it’s growing diversity, its multidisciplinary and multidimensional approach and the various theoretical traditions, epistemological perspectives and methodological approaches in our selected introductions to research findings.

Our Published Articles

May 1, 2018 Cristina Bacalso

The Youth Wellbeing Index returns, with a range of methodological changes – and cautious optimism

Out from the wilderness and quietly released with little fanfare, the Youth Wellbeing Index (YWI), by the International Youth Foundation and Hilton, is back for its

What is the story behind this almost comical relationship of the youth sector to its own commitments?

February 25, 2018 Andreas Karsten

Why does the global youth sector fool itself with commitments it fails to live up to?

At the First Global Forum on Youth Policies, held in 2014, the UN co-conveners – the Youth Envoy, UNDP, UNESCO – committed to ten global actions to strengthen youth policies.

February 3, 2017 Cristina Bacalso

REWIND: A look back at the most significant moments for the youth sector in 2016

There is no disputing it: 2016 was a momentous year. Some even call it the “worst year ever”. While there was certainly much that was newsworthy about last year, we

October 24, 2016 Youthpolicy Team

This year’s big moment for youth data: the 2016 edition of the Youth Development Index

The 2016 Youth Development Index – now the only global index exploring the specific situation for children and young people - has been published. This year's edition is a truly

March 2, 2016 Youthpolicy Team

Strengthening our sector: Join us for the Youth Policy Labs Summer Academy 2016!

Governments increasingly see national youth policies as the vehicle through which to channel and mobilise resources for young people. To support them - and you - we're launching the Youth

January 6, 2016 Cristina Bacalso

Pushing past rhetoric, towards action for children and youth: A new global research project

As the space for civil society is increasingly constrained and denied, a new youth-led report, “From rhetoric to action: Towards an enabling environment for child and youth development in the

May 26, 2015 Jacob Kreyenbühl

Creating the Youth Policy Fact Sheets: A technical perspective on the road to ninja

The is the first in a series of articles exploring the technical development of some of the features on youthpolicy.org. It is aimed at the technology community and is written

April 27, 2015 Paul Frisch

Youthful Cities Global Summit: Cities are full of youth, but are they “youthful”?

In 2014, 50% of the world's population was under 30 years old, with more than the half of the world’s total population living in cities. Today the YouthfulCities Global Summit

April 24, 2015 Youthpolicy Team

Generation Crisis: One crisis, one problem, one Europe – one solution?

When talking about youth-related issues in the European Union, ‘unemployment’ has become one of the buzzwords in the last few years. Since the Union was heavily hit by the crisis

An introduction to the redesign of youthpolicy.org

February 26, 2015 Youthpolicy Team

A facelift for youthpolicy.org: rethinking how we present data on youth policy and youth issues

How time flies! Three years of building an evidence-base for youth policy have gone by, with several extensions of our website to accommodate libraries, fact sheets, databases and mappings… Time