Research Archive
Results & Publications – Youth in Action 2007 – 2013
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Summary – Main Findings
Main Research Findings of RAY 2014 (pdf)
This brochure provides an overview of “Research-based analysis and monitoring of Youth in Action” (RAY), in particular of the RAY Network and its aims and objectives, the research approach and the main findings of research activities between 2009 and 2013.
Transnational Analyses
Exploring Youth in Action – Transnational Analysis 2011
Transnational Analysis, published in 2012 (pdf)
Transnational Analysis, Executive Summary (pdf)
This study presents the findings of multilingual online surveys in 2010/2011 exploring the effects of Youth in Action projects on young people, youth workers and youth leaders involved in them, as well as on their organizations and communities; the study also analyses the profile of participants and project leaders/team members, the access to Youth in Action and the implementation of the projects. The outcomes of this study indicate that Youth in Action projects contribute to the development of all key competences for lifelong learning of both participants and project leaders, in particular of citizenship competences (of participants) as well as of youth work competences (of youth workers and youth leaders).
Exploring Youth in Action – Transnational Analysis 2010
Transnational Analysis, published in 2011 (pdf)
This study presents the findings of multilingual online surveys in 2009/2010 exploring the effects of Youth in Action projects on young people, youth workers and youth leaders involved in them, as well as on their organizations and communities; the study also analyses the profile of participants and project leaders/team members, the access to Youth in Action and the implementation of the projects. The outcomes of this study provide a first insight into the effects and implementation of Youth in Action projects.
Factsheet – 20 years EVS
20 Years European Voluntary Service. Effects (pdf)
This factsheet provides a selection of the positive effects of the European Voluntary Service. The content is based on the self-perception of participants and taken from the ongoing research based analysis and monitoring of the EU youth programme by means of RAY.
Factsheet – much to be proud of
Youth in Action – Much to be proud of (pdf)
This factsheet summarizes a selection of postive effects of the participation in Youth in Action projects.
The content of this sheet is based on the self-perception of participants in Youth in Action Projects and taken from the analytical paper: Yael Ohana (2016): “Youth in Action. Finding and Implications for Practice”.
Implications and Findings
Youth in Action. Finding and Implications for Practice (pdf)
This paper presents implications of the results of the RAY transnational studies conducted on the “Youth in Action Programme” (2007-2013).
It tries to give answers to “What do the results of the studies tell us about how Youth in Action has worked?”; “Which findings can be useful for the successor programme Erasmus+/Youth in Action?” and shows apart from the many positive effects of the programme implications for improvement.
Youth in action makes a difference
This document provides an overview of “Research-based analysis and monitoring of Youth in Action 2007 – 2013”
This document provides an overview of “Research-based analysis and monitoring of Youth in Action” (RAY), in particular of the RAY Network and its aims and objectives, the research approach and the main findings of research activities between 2009 and 2013. Download (pdf)
What is the Impact of Youth in Action on Inclusion?
SALTO Inclusion asked the University of Innsbruck to do an inclusion analysis of the RAY data about the impact of Youth in Action, collected by 20 researchers and Youth in Action national agencies across Europe.
Young people with fewer opportunities generally benefit more than well-off youth from mobility projects.
International projects about inclusion generate more social effects than other projects.
Effects of Participation in Youth in Action
A study on the effects of participation in a Youth in Action project on the level of competences.
This specific study was designed, instrumented, implemented and analyzed in 2012 by Marti Taru, Youth Research Ltd., Tallinn University, in cooperation with the National Agencies of Youth in Action in Belgium-Flanders, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, and Sweden. For further information, please download the study (PDF).
Learning in Youth in Action
Learning in Youth in Action: Results from the surveys with project participants and project leaders in May 2012
Interim Transnational Analysis
The report represents an interim transnational analysis of the special surveys conducted within the framework of the RAY project in May 2012 by National Agencies and their research partners in 13 countries: Austria, Belgium (Flemish-speaking community), Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, Hungary, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Poland, the Slovak Republic, Sweden and Turkey, coordinated by the Institute of Educational Science at the University of Innsbruck in Austria.
Executive Summary (pdf 1,3 MB)
Transnational Analysis ( pdf 1,9 MB)