Nordic-Benelux expert meeting 2011

NORDIC -BENELUX EXPERT MEETING ON CHILD AND YOUTH INDICATORS, 28-30 MARCH 2011, ESPOO, FINLAND

The expert meeting was organised within the framework of the Finnish Presidency of the Nordic Council of Ministers 2011. The meeting served as a follow-up to the Benelux-Nordic seminar on indicators of child and youth well-being held in Amsterdam in 2009.

The overall aim of the expert meeting on child and youth indicators was to give an overview of the current state of the development of indicators in international, European, Nordic and national contexts. In addition, it aimed to bring up discussion on a deeper understanding of the indicators and their usability in promoting eveidence-based youth policies.

You will find the meeting documents below:

- Programme

- Background document

The presentations of the plenary session

• Indicators as patent medicine in evidence-based decision-making by Mr Jussi Simpura, Research Professor, National Institute for Health and
  Welfare, Finland
• Statistics or Policy? Applying youth indicators in the European Commission by Mr Finn Denstad, Policy officer, European Comission - Directorate
  General for Education and Culture, Directorate E - Youth and Sport, Youth Policy Unit
• How to produce and provide knowledge on youth? by Mr Hans-Joachim Schild, Head of Unit, Partnership between the Council of Europe and the European Commission in the field of youth
• Doing better for families means doing better for children: Lessons from two OECD reports by Mr Dominic Richardson, Policy analyst (child well-being), Social policy division, Directorate of Employment, Labour, and Social Affairs, OECD
• Presentation and the main findings of The Nordic Youth Research 2010 - A comparative research among 16 to 19 year old students in the Åland Islands, Denmark, the Faroe Islands, Finland, Greenland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden by Mr Jón Sigfússon, Director of ICSRA / Co-ordinator of The Nordic Youth Research 2010, Reykjavik University (background document)
• Indicators as a tool for evidence-based policy-making - case Finland by Mr Georg Henrik Wrede, Programme Director, Finnish Government Policy Programme for the well-being of children, youth and families, Ministry of Education and Culture

The presentatios of the workshops

1. Education, training, employment, entrepreneurship
2. Health, well-being and social inclusion
3. Voluntary activities and participation (presentation and notes)
4. NEET