Catch-Eyou: Meanings And Practices Of Youth Participation And Cases Of Successful Participation: Cross-National Documentary Evidence Of Youth Civic And Political Participation Initiatives

The data set integrates documentary evidence of national youth civic and political participation initiatives in Italy, Sweden, Germany, Greece, Portugal, Czech Republic, UK, and Estonia. The evidence are represented as pamphlets, brochures, leaflets, newsletters, social media and websites, you tube videos, meme and vine campaigns. The participation initiatives are selected with a focus on initiatives used by national youth citizenship organizations for generating, supporting, communicating and engaging young people’s active participation in diverse and varied causes (the environment, voting at 16, anti-fees and cuts campaigns, rights around civic spaces and youth centers, employment and jobs-related campaigns, issues around race and religion, volunteering, refugees, local housing and education). The data set consists of: (1) a spreadsheet integrating data from all partner countries, and containing qualitative descriptions of activities and cataloguing associated materials of youth civic and political organizations; (2) a textual report containing exemplar images of publicly available online newsletters, minutes, reports and campaign materials from across the consortium (where feasible), copyright cleared and creative commons screenshots of websites, invitation letters, records of personal conversations with members of youth civic teams, quotes from researcher-conversations on social media or f-2-f with members of teams with names redacted. Personal data and all non-public data has been anonymized in order to protect participants’ privacy. The data can be re-used by researchers who want to compare our cross- European data with similar data collected in different countries, to perform textual analysis (content analysis and/or data mining) on our data. Also other stakeholders may be interested in reanalyzing our data for comparative aims.