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EURYO is launching its policy-brief series in December 2024 

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EURYO is launching its policy-brief series in December 2024 

EURYO will launch its policy-brief series in December 2024. The series will be inaugurated with a opening note by EURYO’s chair Francisco Simões. This series will follow up closely the results of the COST Innovators Grant project that was recently awarded to EURYO, by exploring future trends affecting rural young people. The four policy-briefs will focus on topics related to social participation, education, employment and entrepreneurship with each of the Working Groups authoring one specific issue of this series. The issues will be launched every six months, starting in June 2025.

If you are interested in joining the lauch of our series you can JOIN US ONLINE next the 3th of December, at 15.00 CET.

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Youth Partnership Survey

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SPREAD THE WORD!
An on-going study co-led by EURYO members

Francisco Simões (Iscte, Portugal) and Antonella Rocca (Parthenope University of Naples, Italy) are co-leading a study on rural youth for the Youth Partnership, a think-tank from the Council of Europe and the European Commission on youth policies. The study has now opened a survey for rural young people.

Please, help us to spread the word, sending the survey link to your colleagues and contact.

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EURYO awarded a COST Innovators Grant (CIG)

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EURYO awarded a COST Innovators Grant (CIG)

Following the COST Action Rural NEET Youth Network that paved the way for EURYO, our community was recently awarded a COST Innovators Grant (CIG).  A CIG is “an initiative that aims to build bridges between research and take-up at market, product, service, or societal level. CIGs aim to enhance the pace and success of research breakthroughs and as such, offers ending Actions the possibility to create additional impact during the year after the end of the Action”.
Our community proposed to develop the Future Youth Information for Rural Areas (FYI-R). The FYI-R is a strategic foresight toolbox for anticipating rural young people’s needs and perspectives, co-developed with all stakeholders across 16 European countries. The toolbox constitutes an integral component of the European Rural Youth Observatory. We see it as a hybrid instrument combining a national foresight hub, a permanent web-based survey, visual foresight displays and tailored reporting for end-users. The toolbox development will rely on using COST networking tools for out-reaching key stakeholders who are, often, potential clients, implementing co-production methods, involving top-down and bottom-up approaches – meaning from the decision-making arena to rural young people and their representatives, piloting the FYI-R solution across 16 countries and ensuring the CIG results exploitation across potential clients and the scientific community.
Our CIG will start in November 2024 and will be finishing in October 2025.
The results of this CIG call 2024 can be found here:

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New paper published: Becoming a Young Farmer in the Digital Age: An Island Perspective

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We are pleased to announce that a new paper supported under our call for collaborative publications has just been published in the journal Rural Sociology.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ruso.12400

Becoming a Young Farmer in the Digital Age: An Island Perspective

First published: 19 July 2021
https://doi.org/10.1111/ruso.12400

Abstract

This study investigates the career construction paths of young farmers and aims to contribute to the literature on the “young farmer problem.” Of particular relevance is this study’s focus on the potential of islands as a new career landscape in the digital age. Young farmers’ subjective experiences toward careers were analyzed based on narrative interviews, quantitative surveys and expert interviews from two EU islands: Crete and the Azores. Firstly, the study provides insights on the behavioral and cognitive dimensions of the career construction model by identifying followed career paths. Secondly, we turn our focus to the role of digital communications in career construction and, thirdly, the study examines the geographical dimension of the model. We find that involvement with farming entails complex career patterns that evolve into passion. Whether their involvement follows planned or unplanned paths, protean career attitudes, desire to experiment, and a strong sense of career self-concept play significant roles in shaping the career narratives. “Experience” and “management” dimensions of online communication drive the construction of careers as a part of a professional identity mechanism. Our results reveal that the “island effect” (maintaining a part-time farming culture) plays a role in cohesive singular and multiple career self-concepts.

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[CLOSED] 5th Short Term Scientific Missions (STSM) Spring 2023

Calls, Short Term Scientific Missions (STSM)

5th STSM Grant – Spring 2023 [CLOSED]

5th Call for Short Term Scientific Missions (STSM) applications for missions occurring until 15th September 2023

 5th Call Short Term Scientific Missions (STSM) – Spring 2023

STSM IN GENERAL

Short-Term Scientific Mission consists in a visit of a host organization located in a different country than the country of affiliation by a Researcher or Innovator for the specific work to be carried out and for a determined period of time.

STSMs facilitate researchers from COST countries participating in COST Action CA18123 to go to an institution, organization or research centre in another participating COST country to foster collaboration and to perform empirical research. STSMs involve visiting a partner institution to improve closer cooperation and exchange, to develop capacity building and joint research, publications, and preparation of future projects. The STSM must further the scientific objectives of the Action, as set out above.

All STSM activities must occur in their entirety within the dates specified above Purpose of a Short-term Scientific Mission.

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[CLOSED] ITC Conference Grant – Spring 2023

Calls, ITC Conference Grant

ITC Conference Grant – Winter 2023

Final application deadline: May 30th, 2023

Call ITC Conference Grant – Spring 2023

Conference Grants are aimed at supporting Young Researchers and Innovators (YRI) who are less than 40 years old, who are affiliated to a legal entity in an ITC and a NNC participating in the COST Action 18213, to attend international conferences on Rural NEETs related topics not specifically organized by the COST Action.

Conference Grants are exclusively reserved for PhD students and YRIs who are less than 40 years old with a primary affiliation in an institution located in an ITC (Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Greece, North Macedonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Moldova, Montenegro, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia and Turkey).

The grants are exclusively reserved for applicants making an oral/poster presentation at the conference and are listed in the official event/conference programme. The main subject of the oral presentation/poster presentation/speech at the approved conference needs to be closely related to the topic of the Action and to acknowledge COST. The participation of each applicant shall be pre-approved by the Action MC.

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[CLOSED] Short Term Scientific Missions (STSM) Spring 2023

Calls, Short Term Scientific Missions (STSM)

4rd STSM Grant – Spring 2023

 Call Short Term Scientific Missions (STSM) – Spring 2023

[CALL CLOSED] WE HAVE REACHED THE MAXIMUM NUMBER GRANTS FOR THIS PERIOD

4rd Call for Short Term Scientific Missions (STSM) applications for missions occurring until 30th June 2023

STSM IN GENERAL

Short-Term Scientific Mission consists in a visit of a host organization located in a different country than the country of affiliation by a Researcher or Innovator for the specific work to be carried out and for a determined period of time.

STSMs facilitate researchers from COST countries participating in COST Action CA18123 to go to an institution, organization or research centre in another participating COST country to foster collaboration and to perform empirical research. STSMs involve visiting a partner institution to improve closer cooperation and exchange, to develop capacity building and joint research, publications, and preparation of future projects. The STSM must further the scientific objectives of the Action, as set out above.

All STSM activities must occur in their entirety within the dates specified above Purpose of a Short-term Scientific Mission.

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New paper published: Rapid Evidence Assessment Protocol for the Meta-Analysis of Initiatives, Interventions and Programmes That Target Rural NEETs

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We are pleased to announce that a second paper supported under our call for collaborative publications has just been published in the journal Social Sciences. The team was led by Paul Flynn and involved other members such as Vesela Radovic, Alen Mujcinovic, Štefan Bojnec and Francisco Simoes, as well as Veronica McCauley. Congratulations to all the team. Check the link below:

https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/11/8/362

Rapid Evidence Assessment Protocol for the Meta-Analysis of Initiatives, Interventions and Programmes That Target Rural NEETs

by Paul Flynn 1,*, Veronica McCauley 1, Alen Mujčinović 2, Vesela Radović 3, Stefan Bojnec 4 and Francisco Simões 5
1School of Education, National University of Ireland, H91 TK33 Galway, Ireland
2Faculty of Agriculture and Food Sciences, University of Sarajevo, 71000 Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
3Institute for Multidisciplinary Research, University of Belgrade, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia
4Faculty of Management, University of Primorska, SI-6101 Koper-Capodistria, Slovenia
5University Institute of Lisbon, 1649-026 Lisbon, Portugal
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Academic Editor: Svetlana Drobyazko
Soc. Sci. 2022, 11(8), 362; https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci11080362

Abstract

The acronym NEET refers to youths aged between 15 and 34 years old who are excluded from employment, education or training. However, historically, the NEET demographic has been depicted as a largely homogenous group. Against this backdrop and given the dependency of rural economies on agricultural practices for survival, such practices have been in decline for a number of years, seriously threatening rural communities’ sustainability. While these rural NEETs can present as registered unemployed and also within the reporting statistics of various different state-funded initiatives, interventions and programmes, in the case of Rural NEETs, there is a dearth of reporting categories that highlight the specificity of this group resulting in their presence being largely overlooked within official dissemination. In order to advance this emergent field of research, presented here is a Rapid Evidence Assessment protocol that will aid future work of the authors and for others to adapt and/or adopt. View Full-Text
Keywords: rural NEETs; rapid evidence assessment; protocol

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SPRING 2022 CALLS ARE NOW OPEN

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SPRING 2022 CALLS ARE NOW OPEN

JOIN AND PARTCIPATE IN OUR CALLS

If you are a member of our Action or not, you can join us to our SPRING’22 CALLS.

You can see bellow the links to each call with all the information of how to participate. You will be able to publish papers, attend online and face-to-face conferences, visit some institution for a short research, organice events to disseminate our Action and more!

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