TCOORDINATE will have a fundamental impact on improving our understanding of child wellbeing in Europe in the future.
Child and youth engagement
Successful demonstration of the value and impact of Youth Advisory Boards in engaging young people in research processes. By involving children and young people from diverse backgrounds across multiple countries, the project has ensured that their voices are heard and integrated into the research design and implementation.
Transnational research visits
Six highly successful Transnational Access Visits (TAV) calls. Since January 2022, 196 TAV applications were received. Each application was reviewed by 2 reviewers (one internal and one external). In total, 139 applicants were awarded a TAV visit. The TAV programme increased the networking opportunities of early stage researchers as a result of the TAV visitors visiting eight different host institutions. This provided opportunities in particular to female and early career researchers.
Harmonisation toolkit
Practical tools to support researchers seeking to undertake comparative analysis in the field of child wellbeing using longitudinal survey data are made available on the project website.
Growing Up In Digital Europe pilot survey
The GUIDE pilot has been a success, study feasibility was confirmed, we experienced positive feedback from respondents, and questionnaire content was perceived as largely adequate for future use in GUIDE Wave 1.
Development of IT tools
A fully functioning IT system for the GUIDE survey was developed, piloted in four countries and evaluated. This includes a questionnaire development and translation platform and all the necessary modules for the field work data collection using the most modern techniques. This will be the basis of the data collection system that will be used for the full GUIDE study.
Data storage and access system
A fully functioning survey data storage, archive and distribution system was built as will be used for the full GUIDE study. The GUIDE study is findable and accessible via the url
https://coordinate.centerdata.nl/dataarchive(opens in new window) Strengthening the Network and the business plan for GUIDE
Policy briefs illustrated how a Europe-wide longitudinal cohort study like GUIDE can play a crucial role in aiding European policymakers. The business case of GUIDE shows that achieving relatively small improvements in the effectiveness of GUIDE countries’ expenditure related to children and young people well-being would define GUIDE as a socially desirable RI. This makes a strong case for investing resources (public and private) to improve the understanding of children and young adults’ well-being for policy makers and other stakeholders, both at the European and country level.
Building research capacity
A series of major events were held throughout the project: a) Summer schools b) Statistics courses c) courses on data access, collaboration and research capacity building.
Virtual data access platform
A platform for virtual collection and best practice guidance for metadata was created. The virtual data access platform, called the COORDINATE Portal, is openly available at
https://coordinate.cessda.eu/(opens in new window).
