Birgit Eriksson, who was in charge of the course, is also the research manager of Participatory Citizenship: New Experiences and Expectations, which is a rethinkIMPACTS 2017 project.

She has involved the students in this project. Thus, she has had the possibility to make use of their data in her reseach project, which focuses on how to involve and create possibilities of participation for young people in relation to Aarhus as a European Capital of Culture in 2017.

By involving the students in the data collection she has been able to qualify her knowledge about young people’s experiences with (and their expectations to) cultural citizenship.

The collected data resulted in a general recommendation about how to involve young people in Aarhus 2017: Young people should not be perceived as a homogenous group of people. Hence, there is a need for different initiatives to make sure that young people participate. The engagement should not only be created through social media, but should be combined with another, physical form of engagement.

Read about Birgit Eriksson's rethinkIMPACTS 2017 project here