Projects
Multi-country Partnership to Enhance the Education of Refugee an Asylum-seeking Youth in Europe. University of Antwerp
Solidarity is made from moment to moment: Practices of a labour pedagogy in and through youth work KU Leuven
There has been an ever-increasing crisis in which vocational education and training (VET) finds itself, both in Flanders and internationally. On one hand, the importance of VET for both the economy and (technological) innovation is emphasized in public discourses. On the other hand, in the eyes of the average Flemish individual VET is not an attractive educational prospect and more and more youths do not seem interested in the kind of labour ...
The influence of criminal law on youth justice KU Leuven
Youth justice and ‘regular’ criminal law: two different, independent legal areas. On the one hand youth justice, which has been characterized as ‘sui generis’ and thus uses its own conceptual framework and follows its own principles, and on the other hand criminal law, which features a conceptual and functional autonomy and acts according to a completely different philosophy. In addition, in the field of children’s rights criminal law is ...
An EU cooperation in the field of youth justice : mission impossible ? KU Leuven
This research focuses on minors who are involved in cross-border judicial proceedings as a suspect, defendant or offender. Criminal behavior of minors is usually regulated in the Member States by separate rules, which are somehow different from ‘general’ criminal law, i.e. youth justice legislation. However, no specific cooperation mechanisms exist in the EU to deal with cross-border youth justice cases, whereas the EU has developed the ...
The role of peers for youth with type 1 diabetes: A developmental perspective KU Leuven
Adolescence and emerging adulthood are life phases that present challenging normative tasks, such as becoming independent from parents and developing supportive relationships with peers. Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is a chronic disease that significantly impacts the daily lives of youth, adding an extra layer of complexity to an already challenging journey to adulthood. From childhood onwards, peers become an increasingly important and influential ...
The Functioning of Youth with a Chronic Illness and their Micro-Context:Intergenerational Associations and Mechanisms. KU Leuven
Chronic health conditions in youth not only affect the lives of patients themselves, they also exert a substantial impact on parents. By considering chronic health conditions as family conditions, the present project addressed some important gaps in this research area by (1) focusing on the challenging life periods of adolescence and emerging adulthood; (2) studying both negative and positive illness experiences; and (3) including youth along ...
Support centre policy-relevant research 3th generation 'Youth Research Platform' Ghent University
The youth research platform (JOP) is an interdisciplinary and interuniversity partnership between the Department of Social Welfare Studies (UGent), the Leuvens Institute of Criminology (LINC) U+2013 research line Youth Criminology (K.U.Leuven) and the Tempus Omnia Revelat Research Group (TOR U+2013 Vrije Universiteit Brussel). This partnership was created in 2003 on the initiative of the Flemish Minister for Youth. The youth research platform ...