In 2021, the theme of the Annual Conference of Youth Studies is Turning-points: it aims to address the impact of wide social changes and turning-points on youth and young people’s lives, as well as young people as actors in the midst of these changes. According to the current plan the conference will be held at Helsinki, 4–5th November 2021. Registration is now open!
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Our recently launched research projects examine, among other topics: children as music fans; young people’s operational environments and sense of place in the Helsinki region during the coronavirus pandemic; the use of parental leave among parents under the age of 30 in the Nordic countries; mental health and substance abuse services for young people.
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Young people engaging in varied cultural activities experience higher wellbeing than others and the satisfaction in wellbeing is higher the more varied the cultural activities are. This is indicated by the results of the new Study of children and young people’s leisure activities 2020, focusing on cultural, art and media activities.
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As many as 95% of young people in Finland felt that the health care services, school health services and student health care services they had received were sufficient. These are some of the findings of the 2020 Youth Barometer, the topic of which was services offered to young people. The data was collected at the beginning of 2020, before the coronavirus pandemic arrived in Finland.
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A year ago, in February 2020, Storm Dennis battered the streets of Reykjavik. The Covid-19 crisis had not really started yet. Finland was preparing the ‘Finnish model’, which is a new way of organising children's leisure time and hobbies. One example being used in the preparations was the Icelandic model that has gained a good reputation around the world. And so, a research team of three adjunct professors set off on a mission to the island state.
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Finland has a well-developed youth work education system, which became a formal part of the country’s education system already in 1945. The book 'Youth Work Education in Finland' (Tomi Kiilakoski) is published by the Finnish Youth Research Network and it is intended primarily to European audiences.
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