Research at the CCY

01/01/2023

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Ministère de l’Éducation nationale, de l’Enfance et de la Jeunesse (MENJE); Université du Luxembourg

Sandra Biewers Grimm; Laurent Langehegermann; Christiane Meyers; Guido Salza; Caroline Residori; Robin Samuel; Gilles Scheifer; Anette Schumacher;

Ministère de l’Éducation nationale, de l’Enfance et de la Jeunesse (MENJE); Université du Luxembourg

Following the Youth Report 2020, which yielded findings on the well-being and health of young people in Luxembourg, the next Youth Report 2025 is dedicated to the topic of digitalisation, which is currently moving society and science alike.

Originally, digit(al)isation refers to the process of transferring analogue data into a digital format. Nowadays, however, it denotes rather the use of digital information in the economy and society; today’s society is digitalised in almost every area. Young people can hardly imagine life without digital media. They have known and used smartphones, social media, apps, learning and gaming software and many other digital offerings since early childhood. This influences their way of life in almost all areas. Several questions arise in this context:

How do young people in Luxembourg use digital media and services?
In what form has ocialization reached the sectors of formal and non-formal education?
How does ocialization influence different areas of life such as culture and creativity, consumption and entertainment, politics and participation or social interactions?

It seems particularly interesting to us to understand this from the perspective of young people themselves: what potentials but also risks and challenges does the advancing ocialization in different areas of life? We ask ourselves how ocialization in the broadest sense affects the ocialization processes of young people and how it influences their life plans.

https://www.youth-in-luxembourg.lu/works-on-the-youth-report-2025-have-started/

01/01/2021

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University of Luxembourg; Ministère de l’Éducation nationale, de l’Enfance et de la Jeunesse (DG Jeunesse and DG SCRIPT); Ministère de la Santé / Direction de la santé

Carolina Catunda; Helmut Willems; Caroline Residori; Felipe G. Mendes; Romain Brisson; Joana Lopes Ferreira; Katia Ziadi;

Ministère de l’Éducation nationale, de l’Enfance et de la Jeunesse (DG Jeunesse and DG SCRIPT); Ministère de la Santé / Direction de la santé;

The Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) study is an international research collaboration initiated in 1982, in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO). The network includes nowadays 51 countries and regions in Europe, Asia and North America.

Luxembourg conducted a pilot survey in 1999 and has participated in the HBSC survey rounds: 2006, 2010, 2014, 2018 and 2022. This representative study surveys, in each wave, between 7,500 and 10,000 students aged from 11 to 18 years who are taught according to the Luxembourgish national curriculum.

The HBSC survey aims to assess, every four years, the children and adolescent’s well-being, health status and health-related behaviours to understand the relationship between health and social factors.

In this way, students are asked wide-ranging questions, such as, how they think their health is and if they have health complaints (physical and psychological); how often they eat breakfast, fruit, or sweets; how often they exercise; if they smoke and drink and how often; how their relationship with friends, classmates, teachers, and parents is; if they have experienced bullying or bullied others; how they use social media.

The HBSC 2022 Survey also looks in greater depth at student’s mental health and perceived impact of COVID-19 pandemic. The results of the HBSC 2022 Survey will support policy makers to develop measures that aim to promote health and well-being adjusted to young people.

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01/01/2017

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Ministère de l’Éducation nationale, de l’Enfance et de la Jeunesse (MENJE); Université du Luxembourg

Hamid Bulut; Roger Fernandez-Urbano; Caroline Residori; Guido Salza; Robin Samuel; Gilles Scheifer;

Ministère de l’Éducation nationale, de l’Enfance et de la Jeunesse (MENJE); Université du Luxembourg

How satisfied are young people with their lives? What fears do they feel? How committed are they? The Youth Survey Luxembourg answers questions like these. It also determines the extent to which answers to these questions depend on aspects such as age, gender, and social status.

The Youth Survey Luxembourg sheds light on various aspects of young people’s lives in Luxembourg, such as health, political participation, and social engagement. For this purpose, a comprehensive survey takes place every five years. Each survey includes repeat questions that monitor the evolution of indicators over time as well as one-off-questions exploring a special topic. Under special circumstances, interim surveys are conducted. The YAC survey, for example, was an interim survey of the Youth Survey specifically aimed at researching the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Youth Survey Luxembourg is a representative online survey targeting 12-29-year-old residents of Luxembourg. Eligible participants are selected using a proportionally stratified random sample from the National Register of Persons (RNPP). The distribution by age, gender and canton is considered.

With each survey of the Youth Survey Luxembourg (2019, 2024, …) a Technical Report is published. This report provides comprehensive information on the methodological parameters of the Youth Survey Luxembourg. The report provides information on the development and conceptual basis of the questionnaire, the sampling procedure, the data collection, and the processing of the data set. This information is important to guarantee e.g., researchers or experts detailed insights into the data basis and development of the Youth Survey Luxembourg.

https://www.youth-in-luxembourg.lu/project/youth-survey-luxembourg-ysl/

01/06/2020

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Ministère de l’Éducation nationale, de l’Enfance et de la Jeunesse (MENJE); Université du Luxembourg

Sandra Biewers Grimm; Anita Latz; Daniel Weis;

Ministère de l’Éducation nationale, de l’Enfance et de la Jeunesse (MENJE); Université du Luxembourg

This research project has taken a differential look at the specific terms of education in youth work and investigates how young people learn for themselves and for life in the institutions of non-formal education. Using different methods of reconstructive social research, the study has aimed to critically analyse and describe the subjective educational experiences of young people who participate in selected youth work settings.

Based on a theoretical framework of transformative education (Koller, 2018) and subject-oriented youth work (Scherr, 1997), the project has analysed what young people learn in their personal and social development and has researched the extent to which lasting changes in young people’s ways of thinking, seeing, and acting result from their participation in youth work.

Having yielded new insights into the potential and value of youth work from the perspective of the young people themselves, the study has also shown approaches and conditions for successful non-formal educational work. The project, hence, provides the basis for an evidence-based discussion in politics, professional practice and academia about the potential and value of education-oriented youth work.

The mixed-methods study is placed in the field of socio-educational research. Carried out within a period of two years, the project was co-financed by Luxembourg’s Ministry of Education, Youth and Childhood (MENJE). The project started on 1 June 2020.

https://www.youth-in-luxembourg.lu/project/educational-experiences-in-non-formal-settings/

01/03/2023

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European Commission / Horizon Europe

Robin Samuel;
Ona Valls Casas;

OSLOMET – Storbyuniversitetet (Norway); University of Luxembourg (Luxembourg); Universitatea din Bucuresti (Romania); PIN SOC.CONS. A R.L. – Servizi Didattici e Scientifici per l Universita di Firenze (Italy); Universitat de Girona (Spain); Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universitaet Hannover (Germany); Fundacja Naukowa Instytut Badan Strukturalnych (Poland); Confederation des Organisations Familiales de l’Union Europeenne (Belgium);

PATHS2INCLUDE will provide a new, gender-sensitive, comparative knowledge base on effective employment policies targeted at developing inclusive labour markets for persons in vulnerable situations in Europe.

The study will examine the importance of intersectionality related to how context creates vulnerability, by focusing on three central labour-market processes: recruitment; career trajectories; and work exit.

Through the involvement of national and European stakeholders, PATHS2INCLUDE aims to develop proposals for effective policies and to inform relevant policymakers with a view to maximising the project’s impact from a societal as well as scientific perspective.
The project will combine diverse methods, data and disciplines (economics, political science and sociology) in innovative ways:

(1) harmonised factorial survey experiment combined with qualitative interview studies with employers in four European countries (DE, NO, PL and RO);

(2) causal analyses of comparative microdata;

(3) microsimulation analysis exploiting the EUROMOD infrastructure.

Linking the analyses of these data and the three central labour-market processes, will give original insights on how institutional and contextual factors shape barriers or mitigate risk of labour-market attachment among persons in vulnerable situations.

These insights could include cross-national differences in employment-protection legislations and facilitation of care, regional differences in demand for labour, differences at company level related to the size of the firm, flexibilities in job tasks, and conditions that were affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, covering unemployment rates and infection-control measures across different segments of the labour market.

The project will be implemented by an interdisciplinary consortium of seven research institutions and one European civil society organisation. The consortium has a balanced composition in terms of gender, stage of the career and area of expertise.

https://paths2include.eu/