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ForeverYoung: The New Transition to Adulthood

Objetivo

The transition to adulthood (T2A) has long been defined through milestones such as leaving home, forming a union, parenthood, completing education, and stable employment. These markers are increasingly delayed or renounced, and no longer capture how youth themselves understand adulthood. Today’s youth cohorts face unprecedented realities: social lives shaped by social media and AI; youth as a demographic minority; growing dependence on intergenerational transfers; and escalating housing and cost-of-living pressures.
ForeverYoung redefines adulthood as a negotiated status shaped by perceptions, peer norms, and structural constraints. Grounded in the Theory of Planned Behaviour, Emerging Adulthood, and life-course perspectives, it has four objectives: (1) develop new measures of youth conceptions of adulthood, (2) analyse how digital influence, demographic marginality, intergenerational transfers, and housing costs shape these views, (3) link perceptions to prospective behaviours, and (4) build the first AI-augmented agent-based model (AI-ABM) simulating youth transitions as deliberative processes under real-world constraints.
Methods span four work packages: WP1 maps contemporary T2A patterns using international surveys; WP2 conducts human-led and AI-enhanced interviews; WP3 uses conjoint/vignette surveys to identify trade-offs; and WP4 develops the AI-ABM, where generative agents deliberate like young adults and explore counterfactual policy scenarios.
ForeverYoung moves beyond static milestone models to dynamic, psychologically plausible simulations of youth transitions. It pioneers the scaling of qualitative insights through AI interviewers and generative agents, embedding structural constraints for cross-national comparison and counterfactual analysis. The project advances theory in demography and computational social science, delivers insights for ageing societies, inequality, and intergenerational fairness, and informs EU and international youth strategies.

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Convocatoria de propuestas

(se abrirá en una nueva ventana) ERC-2025-ADG

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Institución de acogida

UNIVERSITA COMMERCIALE LUIGI BOCCONI
Aportación neta de la UEn
€ 2 498 658,00
Coste total
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