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Building a Resilient Europe: Understanding Young Generations' Transitions and Opportunities |
| Coordinator 1 | Dr Yuliya Kazakova (Generations and Gender Programme (Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute/Universtity of Groningen)) |
| Coordinator 2 | Professor Rumiana Stoilova (Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences) |
| Coordinator 3 | Dr Ruxandra Comănaru (European Social Survey HQ (City St George's, University of London)) |
| Coordinator 4 | Dr David Consolazio (EVS University of Milan) |
Session Details
Young Europeans are coming of age under a unique combination of pressures that their parents did not face: unaffordable housing, labour markets reshaped by automation and artificial intelligence, and ageing societies in which each new cohort is smaller than the last — all against the backdrop of climate change and geopolitical instability. As Europe seeks to strengthen its resilience, understanding how these interconnected pressures (re)shape young people's transitions to adulthood, opportunities, and expectations has become a pressing empirical and policy question.
The Horizon Europe-funded Infra4NextGen project addresses these questions across five themes, of which Make it Strong approaches them through two lenses: young people's double transitions, from education to work and from youth to adulthood, and their experiences of fairness, solidarity, and intergenerational relations. The project brings together European research infrastructures (European Social Survey, European Values Study, Generations and Gender Programme, and CESSDA) with academic and policy experts to generate tools, data and insights that are relevant, methodologically sound and useful for research and policy. A key resource is the CRONOS-3 panel, a probability-based, input-harmonised mixed-mode survey conducted over five waves in eleven European countries during 2024–2025.
This session invites submissions using CRONOS-3, other consortium surveys (ESS, EVS, GGP), or related Infra4NextGen outputs to examine, among other questions, how young people's educational trajectories, labour market experiences, family formation, intergenerational solidarity, and democratic engagement vary across generations, life stages, and countries. We welcome both substantive empirical analyses and methodological contributions on the comparative measurement of these concepts, aiming to foster dialogue between the two and advance understanding of the opportunities and challenges facing Europe's younger generations.
