Research in Youth Research at Åbo Akademi University aims to promote the health and welfare of young people by providing knowledge on their living conditions, with a special focus on Finland Swedish youth, youth in Ostrobothnia, youth within the Botnia Region, and youth in the Nordic countries.

The set goals will be achieved by compiling and maintaining databases and disseminating information concerning the living conditions of youth through publications, education, counselling, seminars and presentations in municipalities, as well as by developing and establishing methods that will promote health and well-being among youth.

Research conducted within Youth Research at Åbo Akademi University in Vaasa is multidisciplinary and specialised in, for example, the following areas:  child and youth policies, young people at school and in leisure, youth inclusion and participation, health, conflict management as well as ethnic identity and ethnic relations.

Åbo Akademi University is a consortium member of the Center of expertise NUOSKA – Youth work at schools and educational institutions, read more on the research environment at the Faculty of Education and Welfare Studies on this page.