In this section you will find publications, events, good practices, learning activities and resource people in relation to Youth exchanges and mutual perceptions in the EuroMed region.
Based on classroom observations and semi-structured interviews with teachers, parents and students, this comparative study looks at how social cohesion is promoted in Islamic Religious Education (IRE) lessons in Muslim schools in Ireland and non-faith schools in Finland. The study...
I was once asked: if you were given the choice, would you choose to be born now in the new millennium? I replied: definitely, yes! Not only because I was given the unique chance to witness the end of one...
The purpose of this policy brief is to identify and explain the push factors behind the phenomenon of Arab Mediterranean youth migration. The document highlights the importance of push factors of an economic nature and argues that the desire to...
Young researchers face several challenges in getting recognition for their work at the level of institutions and senior intellectual communities. Obstacles include trust issues,funding restrictions, and linguistic and cultural barriers. To these a fore mentioned limitations, researchers and university students...
Perhaps no other challenge preoccupies governments and citizens in the Mediterranean region than the mass unemployment of young people, many of who have invested in higher education in the hope that ability and effort lead to fulfilling lives. Transitions to...
In the wake of tragic terrorist attacks in Western Europe, so-called parallel communities have come under increased scrutiny and pressure to be engaged and integrated in the politics and society of the country of settlement. In this context, the tools...
Young people have intentions for their vocation. Some have an entrepreneurial intention to start or run an enterprise, whereas others do not have any intention to be an entrepreneur. Young persons’ vocational intentions depend on their society and socio-demographic background...
Many would-be tourists were dissuaded from vacationing on Greece’s Aegean islands in 2016, in the aftermath of 2015’s ‘migrant crisis’. However, the islands witnessed an increased arrival of atypical ‘tourists’, among them volunteers intent on helping. This study is based...
Whether born Egyptian and raised abroad or raised in Egypt to bi-cultural parents, ‘halfies’ find themselves constantly afloat between two worlds.
The Intercultural Trends Report of the Anna Lindh Foundation, established in 2010, represents a landmark study in cross-cultural trends and social change across Europe and the southern and eastern Mediterranean region. The Report, entering its third edition in 2018, is...