
Juvenia – Youth Research and Development Centre
Our goal in Youth Research and Development Unit Juvenia is to support equal and participatory youth by combining effective research and development work.
We support equal and participatory youth!
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Our mission
We support equal and participatory youth by combining effective research and development work. Our activities focus on strengthening young people’s inclusion, citizenship and communality, and preventing marginalization. In the youth sector, we promote, among other things, environmental awareness, digitalization and internationalization. Our core competence is youth-oriented research and development.


Scale of operation
We employ more than 30 researchers and developer experts who implement local, national and international research and development projects that focus on multidisciplinary youth research, as well as the development and evaluation of youth services and methods in the youth field. In addition, we offer training and expert services. During its years of operation, Juvenia has implemented more than 100 research, development and training projects related to young people.
Equality and empowerment in youth

Frequently Asked Questions
- In addition to project activities, it is possible to order expert services from Juvenia. These include various studies, surveys, evaluations, workshops and consultations.
- Juvenia can offer practical training periods for Bachelor´s or Master´s level students. For PhD student or worker as a researcher in the field of youth, it is possible to host a visiting resercher in Juvenia.
- Juvenia´s regular youth survey is an extensive survey of the well-being, values and attitudes of young people in Eastern Finland.
Juvenia´s news

Blooming in Finland: A Guide to Career Opportunities for Immigrant Women in South Lax

PeaceAct – Training of Trainers: democracy and peace education on an international training mission

Do you feel connected?

Everything is fearful for the first time!

Midsummer workshop with working life quests
Ongoning projects

Sufficiency solutions for a resilient, green, and just Finland (SISU)

Tupa – fresh expertise for youth services

Nuoska – Center of expertice of Youth work at schools and educational institutions
Altius – Centre of Expertise of Regional Knowledge Production on Youth Work

Mind Over Screens – Empowering Youth in the Digital World

Peace4Europe

Helper – Sustainable employment paths for immigrants

Participating together

Developing Professional Competencies for Demanding Residential care for Children and Youth

Triangle – Building Youth-Orientated Family Cooperation in Education Institutions

GEIN equal play, equal say
Past projects

Social Entrepreneurship for Youth Empowerment in Finland and Latvia

YWIS – Youth work in schools

Neighbours Discovering Internationality Together!

Jelppis – expertise and support for project development
DEQUAL: Capturing Digital Social Inequality Young digi-natives’ asymmetrical agencies within socio-technical imperatives and imaginaries
Centre of Expertise of Municipal Youth Work
Targeted youth work centre of expertise

MAP – Mission to Accomplish Participation!
Guidance Center “Olkkari” 2.0
VET4ALL

Increase – youth employment on the increase in Kouvola

Together forward

Young people with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities and their opportunities to physical activities
Education Gateway – Strengthening the attractiveness of Southern Savonia as a region of education

LAKU – Family Rehabilitation -Evaluation Research Project
Empowering Youth – Successful youth work practices in Europe (EMPYRE)
Offside – Immigrant youth and football
Villages on the Move Go
Huuma – Future Skills for Young People through Dance
