MAPPING OF YOUTH RESEARCH STRUCTURES, KEY STAKEHOLDERS AND DATA COLLECTIONS ACROSS EUROPE

Alena Ignatovitch and Sladjana Petkovic

October 2020

Disclaimer: The opinions expressed in this work, commissioned by the European Union-Council of Europe youth partnership, are the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official policy of either of the partner institutions, their member states or the organisations co-operating with them.

Contents

ABBREVIATIONS……………………………………………………………………………………………………………….….2 LIST OF TABLES………………………………………………………………………………...…….…………………….……..2 LIST OF FIGURES…………………………………………………………………………………….…………………….……...2

1. INTRODUCTION……………………………………………….………………………………………………...…… 3

2. STRUCTURES AND ACTORS THAT PLAY A ROLE IN KNOWLEDGE-GATHERING, TRANSFER AND DISSEMINATION IN THE YOUTH FIELD……………………………………………..4

2.1 Departments in universities gathering knowledge on you………………………………..….……..5

2.2 Major public and semi-public bodies dealing with youth research………………………...... 6

2.3 Private companies dealing with youth research……………………………………………….…………….7

2.4 Statistical offices that collect statistics on youth……………………………………………..…...……….8

2.5 NGOs dealing with youth research……………………………………………………………………..………..9

2.6 National and transnational youth knowledge (research) networks supporting youth policy…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………10

3. NATIONAL STATISTICS AND ACCESSIBLE DATASOURCES...... 12

3.1 Data collections gathered by the state statistical offices which provide updated statistics on youth………………………...……...…………………………………………...……………….……….…………………13

3.2 Data collections gathered by semi-public and private actors which provide updated statistics on youth…………………………………………………………………..…………….….…………………..….15 3.3. Data collections gathered by public, semi-public and private actors which does NOT provide updated statistics on youth…………………………………………………………….…………………….16 3.4. Data collections supporting development of youth policy and youth work………………….18 3.5. Regular youth reports (local, national)...... 19 3.6. National journals and reviews on youth research…………………………………..……………...…..21 3.7.IT information dissemination tools...... 22 3.8. Priority themes in the field of youth research……………………………………………………….…….25 3.9. Challenges in collecting statistics and data on youth / youth policy / youth work…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..26

4. GOOD PRACTICE EXAMPLES RELATED TO FOSTERING A BETTER KNOWLEDGE ON YOUTH…………………………………………………………………………………………………….….....………………..27

5. CONCLUSION……………………………………………………………………………..…………….……...... 30

6. ANNEXES……………………………………………………………………………………………..….