Dear Colleagues,
With apologies for cross-posting, I would like to let you know that there was extension for the 2022 ESPAnet Conference in Vienna abstract submission. Abstracts will be accepted until Monday April 11th.
Please consider submitting for Stream 26: Youth Policy, European Integration, and Multilevel Governance (description below). The stream accepts both in-person and virtual applications, as well as posters and papers. Abstracts should be no more than 500 words.
For more information and to submit abstracts, visit: www.espanet-vienna2022.org/call-for-abstracts.
Timeline:
• Deadline for Abstract Submission: 11 April
• Notification of Acceptance: 13 May
• Deadline for Paper Submission: 15 August
• Conference: 14-16 September
Looking forward to welcoming your proposals and meeting you!
Sincerely,
Natalie Glynn, University of Tübingen
STREAM DESCRIPTION:
How have Member States and local and regional actors responded to policy activism by the European Union (EU) in the area of youth policy in recent decades? What can the field of youth policy demonstrate about the interaction between “soft law” and “hard law” in terms of the widening and deepening of European integration? Can efforts to create a coherent European youth policy contribute to the formation of a European demos? These are the kinds of questions that contributions to this stream could address.
European Youth Policy is particularly fruitful for investigating issues of multilevel governance. First, youth policy is an increasingly coherent field of policy in the EU that is primarily governed by “soft law” mechanisms (e.g. the Open Method of Coordination, recommendations, and action programs), which has seen increased policy activism from the EU in the past two decades in particular. Second, youth policy is characterized by the involvement of multiple layers of governmental and non-governmental actors. For example, the Council of Europe is a second influential international organization that actively promotes certain approaches to youth policy and youth work in Europe. Moreover, there is a predominance in many Member States of both devolved governance for youth policies and of non-governmental organizations delivering youth services. Hence, youth policy has the potential to be informative for understanding how regional- and local-level actors as well as non-state actors engage with European policy stimuli.
In addition to understanding European integration through the lens of youth policy, this field has the potential to contribute to discussions of social citizenship and welfare state development. For instance, it has been argued that the EU promotes a specific normative approach to youth policy and welfare citizenship that focuses on civic engagement and labor market activation. Moreover, it has been claimed that the focus on individualizing strategies such as skill development initiatives and job matching are increasingly out of sync with the realities of the labor market available to many young Europeans. Additionally, there is a distinct lack of policy initiative on other issues, such as housing, that are of significant interest to youth in Europe.
Possible Panel Topics:
• Multilevel Governance of European Youth Policy
• Youth Policy as an Instrument of European Integration
• Youth Policy and the Creation of a European Demos
• NextGenerationEU and the Next Iteration of European Youth Policy
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