Abstract

ROOTS project is focused on educational mobilities, their value, and their impact by examining young adults returning to their home regions after higher education and assessing networks and policies fostering return to develop policy recommendations, capacity building, and peer learning activities.

ROOTS aims to study the educational mobilities of young adults from low-density areas, assess the impact of returning to home regions after higher education, improve policies and organisations' support measures, and develop frameworks to harness the potential of returning youth. This is a participatory applied research using a variety of methods, which includes an interdisciplinary team and social actors, and the creation of a collaborative laboratory (ROOTS'Lab).

TEAM

FPCEUP: Sofia Marques da Silva (PI), Marta Sampaio, Nicolas Martins da Silva, Amélia Veiga, Patrício Costa, Armando Loureiro, Sara Faria, Basílio Baltazar Dias, Luís Miguel Chaves, João Manuel Almeida
UÉvora: Saudade Baltazar

CoPIn

JEDI – Youth, Education, Diversity and Innovation

Funding

This project is cofunded by the Innovation and Digital Transition Programme - COMPETE 2030, Portugal 2030 and the European Union (ERDF) | Call for Scientific Research and Technological Development (IC&DT) Projects in All Scientific Domains 2023 (MPr-12-2023 - ICDT/2023)
Grant no. COMPETE2030-FEDER-00874300

Keywords

Educational mobilities
Young adults
Low-density regions
Regional development

Principal Investigator

Sofia Marques da Silva

Co-Principal Investigator

Team

Amélia Veiga

Armando Loureiro

Marta Sampaio

Nicolas Martins da Silva

Sofia Marques da Silva

Partners

CIIE/Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação da Universidade do Porto
Universidade de Évora