Youth, mobility and generations : the meanings and impact of migration and mobility experiences on transitions to adulthood

The article reflects on the role of mobility within transition to adulthood process. It will present the results of research focusing on the transitions to adulthood of representatives of the generation born at the beginning of the 1980s in Poland. This boom generation experienced both the transformation from a communist to a capitalist state, as well as the joyful and hopeful moment of Poland’s accession to the EU in 2004. Post-2004, faced with high unemployment, the representatives of this age cohort decided to leave Poland en masse in search of employment opportunities. Based on biographical interviews with young Poles born in the early 1980s and living in Poland, the article reflects upon the meaning of mobility and migration experiences in their young age. What was mobility impact on different transition to adulthood trajectories - employment, family or independent living? How has it affected the concept of adulthood? In the article, the mobility experience will be looked upon through the lenses of theories of youth studies, which is a recent trend in analyzing young people’s mobility or migration. The article points to the three meanings of mobility: mobility as an experience of semi-independence, mobility as time to gain adulthood, and mobility as a celebration of youth. As the experience of this cohort is unique in the historical sense, it is also exemplary for the growing importance of mobility in transitions to adulthood

The Role of the Erasmus Programme in Enhancing Intercultural Dialogue. Presentation of the Results from the Erasmus Student Network Survey 2007

Mobility of people and resources in higher education of today has a distinct role to develop intercultural dialog within academia, to discuss cultural values and confront the worldviews. These processes take place mostly at the level of individuals and has a huge impact on one's value system. The aim of the paper is to evaluate the role of the Erasmus Programme in enhancing intercultural dialogue. The Erasmus Programme, celebrating in 2007 twenty years of its existence, is currently the flagship of European integration. The programme is open to the 27 Member States of the European Union, the three EEA countries (Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway) and to Turkey (as candidate country). Its main objective is to improve the quality and increase the volume of student and teaching staff mobility throughout Europe. Already more than 1.500.000 of Erasmus Students have experienced “being an Erasmus”.Peer Reviewe

Władza w intymnych związkach heteroseksualnych refleksja nad badaniem władzy w kontekście równości płci

Artykuł podejmuje refleksję nad badaniem relacji władzy w intymnych związkach heteroseksualnych w kontekście równości płci. Punktem wyjścia jest propozycja opisu dynamiki władzy sformułowana przez Ronalda E. Cromwella i Davida H. Olsona, uwzględniająca jej trzy wymiary: podstawy, procesy i efekty. Tekst jest próbą uzupełnienia tej klasycznej już na gruncie socjologii rodziny propozycji o perspektywę płci społeczno-kulturowej. Celem proponowanych w tekście analiz jest pokazanie, że normy dotyczące ról kobiet i mężczyzn, a także bazujące na nich ideologie płci partnerów mają wpływ na każdy wymiar władzy w związku, modyfikując znaczenie tych wymiarów. Proponowane rozważania stanowią próbę odpowiedzi na pytanie: w jaki sposób płeć społeczno-kulturowa kształtuje relacje władzy w heteroseksualnych związkach intymnych? Efektem tych rozważań jest zaproponowany model teoretyczny do badania relacji władzy w związkach heteroseksualnych.Artykuł powstał w ramach projektu „Gender equality and quality of life – how gender equality can contribute to development in Europe. A study of Poland and Norway”. Badania naukowe prowadzące do osiągnięcia opisanych rezultatów otrzymały finansowanie z programu PolskoNorweska Współpraca Badawcza, realizowanego przez Narodowe Centrum Badań i Rozwoju w ramach Norweskiego Mechanizmu Finansowego na lata 2009–2014, na podstawie umowy w sprawie projektu n°Pol-Nor/200641/63/2013

Youth in the processes of transition to adulthood : reflections from the perspective of changes in life course patterns

Celem tego artykułu jest refleksja nad koncepcją młodości z perspektywy przemian przebiegu życia. Wydłużanie się procesu wchodzenia w dorosłość skutkowało wyłonieniem w przebiegu życia nowej fazy - młodości - czy też wyłaniającej się dorosłości (emerging adulthood). Na podstawie autobiograficznych wywiadów pogłębionych z młodymi dorosłymi urodzonymi na początku lat 80., ukazane zostaną sposoby definiowania młodości. Jak jest ona przez nich rozumiana, przeżywana i pozycjonowana w stosunku do dorosłości? Badane pokolenie wyżu demograficznego lat 80. w Polsce dokonało swoistej rewolucji w przebiegu życia, wydłużając wchodzenie w dorosłość i tworząc nowe wzory przebiegu życia. Jak pokazują analizy, młodość dla części osób badanych staje się znaczącym okresem czy momentem biograficznym, równocześnie pozostaje wartością czy stylem życia niekoniecznie związanym z wiekiem.The aim of this article is to reflect on the concept of youth in the context of changes in life course patterns. The extension of the process of transition to adulthood has resulted in the conceptualisation of a new phase in the life course - youth - or emerging adulthood. Using autobiographical in-depth interviews with young adults born in the early 1980s, the author discusses ways of defining youth. How do young people understand, experience and position it in relation to adulthood? The researched boom generation of the 1980s in Poland made a life course revolution, prolonging the transition to adulthood and creating new life course patterns. As the analyses show, youth is a significant period or biographical moment for some of the respondents, while at the same time it remains a value or lifestyle not necessarily related to age

Mapping activities, networks and needs of GE-practitioners

The successful implementation of Gender Equality Plans (GEPs)1 in research organisations remains a difficult challenge. Problems typically stem from a lack of practitioners’ respective "know how" but are also related to scattered efforts at inter - and intra-organisational levels. The Horizon 2020 project ACT2 aims at overcoming these struggles in implementing GEPs by promoting institutional change through the advancement of Communities of Practice (CoPs). For this purpose, ACT in a first step carried out a Community Survey to map actors - practitioners and experts - who are engaged in the advancement of gender equality (GE) objectives at Research Performing (RPOs) and Research Funding Organisations (RFOs) across Europe. The aim of this paper is to give an overview of key results on GE implementation activities based on survey responses, as well as the experienced struggles and needs for improvement.Furthermore, first results of the conducted Social Network Analysis (SNA) are presented, showing some of the most central and well-connected regions but also gaps in the existing network of cooperation regarding GE

Communities of practice and gender equality : fostering structural change in research and academia in Central and Eastern Europe

This chapter examines to what extent Communities of Practice (CoP) can facilitate conditions for effective gender equality interventions in research and academia in Central and Eastern Europe. Drawing on the experience of the Community of Practice for Gender Equality in Central and Eastern Europe, this chapter particularly reflects upon the needs and expectations that have been voiced by the CoP members. It also examines the usefulness of CoP as a mechanism fostering the necessary conditions for advancing gender equality, including the agency of change actors and the engagement of organisational stakeholders, building up gender know-how, access to practical tools for designing evidence-based interventions, managing resistance, and framing gender equality within wider concepts and human and financial resources