M.A. European Youth Studies (EYS) Consortium

M.A. European Youth Studies (EYS) Consortium

Duration:  since 2005
Description:  The M.A. EYS initiative brings together first-rate teaching and research
expertise from throughout Europe to create a unique Bologna 120 ECTS Master’s
degree in European Youth Studies, a specialist and interdisciplinary field that
emerged in the 1990s in response to the rapidly changing European social mosaic
and its implications on the study of youth in the life-course and of young people’s
lives. The step towards interdisciplinary perspectives reflects the search for integrated
and holistic frameworks to understand youth in highly complex, globalising societies. The
consortium gathers eleven partner universities and more associate members. Currently the work in
the consortium, which is partly funded by the European Commission’s Life Long Learning
programme, is concentrated on curriculum development.