YOYO-Publications
YOYO – Youth Policy and Participation More information on YOYO can be found in the project description page. YOYO has published the following articles and book chapters:
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YOYO-Project description
YOYO – Youth Policy and Participation „Youth Policies and Participation“ (YOYO) is an EGRIS (European Group for Integrated Social Research) project, coordinated by IRIS e.V. (Institut für regionale Innovation und Sozialforschung) Tübingen and funded the European Commision’s 5. Framework Programme for Research.
The European research project FATE
Comparative analysis on the changed role of the family against the background of longer and more complicated transitions of young women and men into work an economic independency. The ‘Families and Transitions in Europe’ research project has been funded under the Improving the Human Potential key action of the European Commissions Fifth Framework Programme. It was developed and carried out in the framework of the European research network EGRIS and has been coordinated by the School of Policy Studies at …
Young People and Transition Policies in Europe
European Conference for researchers, policy-makers and practitioners on the experiences of young people with support measures for transitions to work, 6-8 June 2002 in Madrid. From 6 to 8 June 2002 IRIS together with AREA (Asociácion Regional y Europea de Análisis, Valencia) and in collaboration with the Spanish Youth Institute organised a European conference on „Young People and Transition Policies in Europe“. The conference addressed policy makers, institutional representatives and researchers. The project started from the observation that existing policies …
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1999-2000 Dead end streets…
“Sackgassen – Umleitungen – Überholspuren?” – Risks of exclusion and new perspectives in transitions to work Transnational Knowledge Transfer Project I. Objectives This project aimed at improving the situation of young people in their transitions to work by furthering the dialogue between research, practice and policy-making. For this aim, regional conferences were held in four European partner regions to discuss the outcomes of the TSER-funded research network “Misleading Trajectories”). In Baden-Württemberg there were the following events held: a regional symposium on 20.10.99 …
Details on Misleading Trajectories
Evaluation of employment policies for young adults in Europe regarding non-intended effects of social exclusion. Financed by the European Commission under the 4th Framework Programme for Research, Technology, and Demonstration, „Targeted Socio-Economic Research“ (TSER, Area III.4), carried out through EGRIS, coordinated by IRIS e.V. Duration: 1998-2001 The thematic network ‚Misleading Trajectories‘ has been concerned with the traps of social exclusion within policies addressing young people’s transitions to work (school, vocational training, careers advice, social security, labour market programmes). The network …
1998-2000 Third Sector
„Advising local networks of 3rd sector initiatives – job creation for (disadvantaged) young people in the area of social and youth services“ An international project Duration: 1998 – 2000 The Project „Advising local networks of 3rd sector initiatives: job creation for (disadvantaged) young people in the area of social and youth services“, funded under the EU „Third System & Employment Pilot Action” identified – by transnational comparison between the United Kingdom, Ireland, Italy, and Germany – potentials for employing young …
Project description Integration through Training
Integration through training: Comparing the effectiveness of strategies to promote the integration of unemployed young people in the aftermath of the 1997 Luxembourg Summit on Employment.
IARD-Study Information
In 2001, the European Commission charged a cosortium of 18 youth research institutions with the preparation of a comprehensive report on the situation of young people in the European Union. With the Milan-based institute IARD in the lead, the consortium produced a report with three special focuses: the social situation of youths in the EU, youth policies in Europe and the training of youth workers. IRIS was responsable for the third part of the study – an overview of training …
Other projects on education and learning before 2000
1998-2000 Evaluation of the pilot project „NEWOL“ (New Ways of Learning for SMEs)coordinated by Kolpingbildungswerk Stuttgart; funded by the EC’s LEONARDO-Programme. 1997-1999 Coordination of the research project „Success criteria for the further training of women“; funded by the programme LEONARDO da VINCI. 1997-1998 Research project „Dropping out and secondary education“; coordinated by IARD, Milano; funded by the DG Education and Culture.
Other projects on transitions before 2000
1996-1999 Construction of a regional network for the creation of new employment opportunities in the social services area for women in a rural countryside (funded by the European Regional Development Fund, Art. 10) 1990-1998 Regional studies on young people’s transitions to work (Regions: Zollernalbkreis 1990, Ostalbkreis 1992, Alb-Donau-Kreis 1997, Landkreis Sigmaringen 1998).
Lifelong Learning in Europe
European conferences on the prerequisites, consequences and contradictions of lifelong learning 1996 (Dresden) and 1998 (Lissabon). In 1996, the European Year of Lifelong Learning, IRIS together with other EGRIS partners initiated a series of two European conferences to clarify the meaning and the impli8cations of the conceopt of lifeling learning. The first conference 1996 in Dresden under the title „Options for the Integration of Living, Learning and Working“ dealt with the relationship between lifelong larning and changed life courses …
Secondary learning effects
Contrary to many training schemes, performing arts offer young women and men the opportunity to present themselves from a less „problem-oriented“ side: in fact not as an „early school-leaver“ or „under-achiever“, but as a musician, an actor/actress and so on. Before this background, this research project aimed at learning more about the special learning processes happening in performing arts projects for „disadvantaged“ young people which for working purposes we had „Secondary learning effects…“ Research questions and design: Which active role …
Andreas Walther
Prof. Dr. Universitätsprofessor am Institut für Sozialpädagogik und Erwachsenenbildung der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt a.M. Schwerpunkte: Jugendforschung, Kinder- und Jugendhilfe, Übergänge in Lebenslauf und Biographie, internationaler Vergleich