Ambition portfolio: Youth participation to shape the future society
Ongoing projects
Youth perspectives on polarization
Using a participatory approach to youth, research is conducted into how young people experience polarization and what they see as a solution
Street harassment
How youth involvement can contribute to understanding and addressing street harassment
Linking social anxiety and prosocial behavior in adolescence
Enhancement of measures for social anxiety and on exploring the interplay between social anxiety and prosocial behavior in adolescents
Completed projects
Youth participation in municipalities
SPARK
In this transformative project, convergence researchers, children (aged 8-12 years) and (mental) health care professionals explore three important challenges of child participation in research
AI- based Digital Health Assistants
We will co-create an ethically legitimate LLM prototype digital health assistant that can support youth in healthy behaviors and essential skills, and provide crucial knowledge on Inclusive Human-Centric AI for youth mental health.
Music’s Mental Toolbox
This project explores music’s role towards well-being and societal engagement among young people in Rotterdam
Let’s Movez together
Development and evaluation of a tool for meaningful child
participation in understanding and supporting digital resilience
Never Mind
A theater production on mental health and social inequality made by and for youth
Local to Global
From a transdisciplinary elective to a Healthy Start minor
(Re)Searching a Healthy Start
An educational podcast