YOUTH RESEARCH DIALOGUE
Inclusive Youth Participation: What’s Working, What’s Missing, What’s Next?
Join us for our last Youth Research Dialogue in 2026 on 25 November.
We will discuss ‘Inclusive Youth Participation: What’s Working, What’s Missing, What’s Next?’ with our guest speakers from the SALTO Inclusion & Diversity and SALTO Participation & Information Resource Centres.
Why is inclusive youth participation important? What is inclusive youth participation? How can young people with fewer opportunities participate meaningfully in democratic life? How can they have real influence over the decisions, policies and programmes that affect them?
Our guest speakers will share insights from their ongoing Inclusive Youth Participation long-term project and related activities. We will bring RAY findings from our RAY Monitoring surveys conducted with participants and project team members of the Erasmus+ Youth and European Solidarity Corps programmes to the discussion.
During the dialogue, we will take a look at concepts, definitions and dimensions, as well as discuss barriers to inclusive participation.
Furthermore, we will explore what is missing and what is needed for more inclusive youth participation in projects, programmes, processes and strategies. We will emphasise on the needs for future youth policies and strategies and the new cycle of the European youth programmes
RAY DAY on 25 November
This episode takes place during our European-wide RAY Communication Day – the RAY DAY! This day is for communicating about RAY and disseminating RAY research and involves all 36 partners of the network in 34 countries as well as the European coordination. To celebrate the RAY DAY from the European coordination-side, we are livestreaming our fourth episode of the Youth Research Dialogues as well as run a social media campaign!
WHAT?
Inclusive Youth Participation: What’s Working, What’s Missing, What’s Next?
WHEN?
25 November, 15:00 – 15:45 CET
WHO?
>> Hannah Sattlecker, SALTO Participation & Information Resource Centre
>> Henrique Goncalves, SALTO Inclusion & Diversity Resource Centre
>> Ashley Pitschmann, RAY Transnational Research Team
WHERE?
Livestream, which can be followed here:
>> RAY Facebook (bit.ly/YouthResearchDialogue28)
>> RAY YouTube
Moderated by
Tomi Kiilakoski and Domagoj Morić
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What are the Youth Research Dialogues?
The overall aim of the ‘Youth Research Dialogues’ series is to not only to make RAY research findings more accessible but also other European youth research studies and create a dialogue between researchers about their findings. The ‘Youth Research Dialogues’ series promotes different topics, e.g. inclusion and diversity, pandemic and youth work, digitalisation etc. In addition to researchers from the RAY Network, the ‘Youth Research Dialogues’ series features research colleagues from different global and European contexts and networks.