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 would like to invite you to the YELS network drink at the Minnaert café from 16:00 – 17:30 on Tuesday June 6th. During the drinks you will have the opportunity to get to know the Youth Education and Life Skills community, continue talking with your colleagues you met at the kick-off event, ask questions…

The community Youth Education & Life Skills, YELS for short, offers financial support for research activities to kickstart the community. You can apply for financial support for activities that fit the scope of YELS. The deadline for proposals is June 30, 2023.

On our Teams channel, researchers can stay in touch with each other and share information about publications, grant applications, conferences and more. Would you like to stay up-to-date and stay in contact with your fellow researchers? Please click here to join the Dynamics of Youth and our communities.

To strengthen the societal impact of research, researchers increasingly seek ways to actively involve children and youth in their projects, but how do you design youth participation projects in such a way that is meaningful to both researchers and youth? To explore this question and learn from each other, Dynamics of Youth and Healthy Start…

Youth participation in research is a rich, exciting, and challenging topic. In order to delve into this topic, a special session on youth participation will take place on Wednesday 31st May from 13.00-17.00 in Utrecht city centre. This is both for those with experience, and for those who would like to get started with involving…

What a wonderful kick-off of our Dynamics of Youth community Youth Education & Life Skills last Wednesday! It was an event full of curiosity, passion, and new connections. We planted the seeds to grow together, and invite everyone interested in Youth Education & Life Skills to join us. The pictures taken at the kick-off event…

Time to kick-off our community! We are happy to invite you to the kick-off event of the Youth Education & Life Skills community on Wednesday 12 april from 15:45-19:00 (with drinks afterwards) in the Social Impact Factory (close to Utrecht Central Station). At the event, we kick-off the community: we tell you more about how…

During the Next Generation Radio event in the fall of 2022, researchers and staff from Child Health at UMC Utrecht, Prinses Máxima Centrum and Dynamics of Youth (Utrecht University) collaborated to explore ways to enhance opportunities for all children and youth. The Youth Education and Life Skills community chair Veronique Schutjens was one of the…