Hope and resilience: A multidisciplinary conference on social sustainability for children, youth, and diverse families (Hope and resilience)
Main funder
Funder's project number: 2024-02-005384-02
Funds granted by main funder (€)
- 15 000,00
Funding program
Project timetable
Project start date: 01/06/2024
Project end date: 30/11/2025
Summary
For a long time, humanity and societies have sought and been able to promote general well-being, equity, participation, and inclusion in multiple ways. Scientific work conducted in different disciplines has played a significant role in this progress. Improvement in quality of life has given hope and created an optimistic worldview, especially in Western countries but also outside them. However, recent global humanitarian crises, such as wars, the years of the pandemic, and the climate crisis, have eroded faith in the future for individuals and communities, and discussions surrounding the need for more sustainable lifestyles has increased. While particular attention has been paid to environmental problems, there has been less emphasis on complex social challenges, such as immigration caused, for example, by poverty and wars; cultural, ethnic, and well-being diversities and polarization in/between populations; and various inequalities within and between nations. Along with environmental issues, such social challenges have tested people's resilience, especially among the most vulnerable groups, including children, young people, and their families. Recently, concerns about increased mental health, well-being, and social problems among children and young people have arisen in public and scholarly discussions. In many countries, young people have also voiced their worries about current circumstances and the future of the planet and communities. The flourishing and struggling of diverse individuals and families relate to complex cultural, political, economic, and history-bound phenomena. Therefore, a research-based understanding of such multifaceted phenomena, provided within the multidisciplinary fields of human sciences, is needed to solve the challenges and problems children, young people, and families face and to create sustainable societies for future generations.
Hope and resilience for the future: A multidisciplinary conference on social sustainability for children, youth, and diverse families will be held in Jyväskylä, Finland, from 6–8 May 2025. The conference will be organized by the Faculty of Education and Psychology of the University of Jyväskylä under the research profiling area of Social Sustainability for Children and Families funded by the Research Council of Finland. The theme of the conference emphasizes the diverse realities of families, children, and young people living across the globe and intends to unite researchers from various fields to explore how we can foster well-being, resilience, and hope for the future within families and communities. We want to encourage scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds to contribute to these discussions and provide novel perspectives on childhood, youth, and the lives and meaning of families in the past, present, and future.
The conference aims to consider the following themes relating to hope, resilience, and social sustainability:
• Belonging and participation in social groups and communities
• Child, youth, and family services
• Children, youth, families, and communities as agents for change
• Communities and living environments
• Diversity, minorities, and vulnerabilities
• Equity and equality
• Family relations
• Inclusion, belonging, and equity in education and educational institutions
• Interventions to enhance individual, family, community, and societal resilience
• Lifestyles and leisure activities supporting health, well-being, and belonging
• Policies and politics
• Resilience and social sustainability as theoretical concepts
• Tackling polarization, discrimination, and inequalities
• Technology and digital environments
• Working life for a better future for diverse families
Hope and resilience for the future: A multidisciplinary conference on social sustainability for children, youth, and diverse families will be held in Jyväskylä, Finland, from 6–8 May 2025. The conference will be organized by the Faculty of Education and Psychology of the University of Jyväskylä under the research profiling area of Social Sustainability for Children and Families funded by the Research Council of Finland. The theme of the conference emphasizes the diverse realities of families, children, and young people living across the globe and intends to unite researchers from various fields to explore how we can foster well-being, resilience, and hope for the future within families and communities. We want to encourage scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds to contribute to these discussions and provide novel perspectives on childhood, youth, and the lives and meaning of families in the past, present, and future.
The conference aims to consider the following themes relating to hope, resilience, and social sustainability:
• Belonging and participation in social groups and communities
• Child, youth, and family services
• Children, youth, families, and communities as agents for change
• Communities and living environments
• Diversity, minorities, and vulnerabilities
• Equity and equality
• Family relations
• Inclusion, belonging, and equity in education and educational institutions
• Interventions to enhance individual, family, community, and societal resilience
• Lifestyles and leisure activities supporting health, well-being, and belonging
• Policies and politics
• Resilience and social sustainability as theoretical concepts
• Tackling polarization, discrimination, and inequalities
• Technology and digital environments
• Working life for a better future for diverse families
Principal Investigator
Other persons related to this project (JYU)
Primary responsible unit
Web page
https://www.jyu.fi/fi/tapahtumat/hope-and-resilience-a-multidisciplinary-conference-on-social-sustainability-for-children-youth-and
Follow-up groups
Profiling area: Social Sustainability for Children and Families (University of Jyväskylä JYU) SOSUS
