The “Growing Up and Growing Out?” pop-up meeting on November 27, 2023, offered a unique opportunity to unravel the complexities of the transition from adolescence to adulthood. This is a dynamic period marked by important changes in social roles of dependency (e.g., parental dependence) to roles of adult responsibilities. Adolescents have a growing need for…

On October 10th we had our first ever pop-up meeting with as theme “Navigating from School to Work”. We look back on an inspiring afternoon where a lot of new connections were made.   In the first part of the pop-up meeting, we were joined by Professor Kristoffer Chelsom Vogt, head of department of Sociology…

Newsletter October:
– Deadline funding application
– SAVE THE DATA: FAIR data network lunch
– Blog workshop follow-up
– Spotlight; sleep conference, grant for interdisciplinary collaboration and Health Hub Utrecht
– Agenda

At the end of May some thirty researchers came together to exchange knowledge and experience on youth participation in research.With representatives from both Dynamics of Youth at Utrecht University and the Healthy Start community, the event served as a platform for forging new connections, sharing insights, and raising questions. Healthy Start Convergence Fellow Lysanne te…

We want to support and facilitate new and emerging collaborations around the themes of the Becoming Adults community. We have just piloted a no-stakes coffee date, in which we invite two researchers with aligned interests to meet and explore areas of mutual interest, with the potential for future collaboration. The first coffee was had by…

On 13 December 2022 we held a kick-off event for the Becoming Adults in a Changing World Community. Some 100 participants including youth, professionals, policy makers and researchers came together in Tivoli Utrecht to explore together some of the major questions facing youth. Exchange across the boundaries between scientists, practitioners and youth was a defining…