D1.5 Webinar Report: Inclusive & transformative Citizen Social Science with young people

This report is a summary report from the first session of webinars by EIE WG and YouCount held in autumn 2021 that will continue in autumn 2023. Young people in Europe are facing many challenges with regard to social inclusion (e.g. social participation, employment, social belonging). There is a pressing need to develop more knowledge and innovation to create more inclusive and youth-friendly societies. One way to contribute to this is through Citizen Social Science with young people - Youth Citizen Social Science (Y-CSS). The YouCount EU project aims at developing Y-CSS. To exchange knowledge for that purpose, the Working Group on Empowerment, Inclusiveness & Equity (EIE WG) worked together with the YouCount project. The EIE WG brings together practitioners of Citizen Science, community-based research and youth engagement and is supported by the European Citizen Science Association (ECSA) and the Living Knowledge Network (LKN). Together, we co-organised a series of webinars to create space for discussing important questions of Y-CSS, mobilise feedback on the YouCount framework & start building a community of interest around Y-CSS. Webinar topics and formats were co-created with CSS practitioners and young researchers on a case-by-case basis.