IP-PAD: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Politics of Adolescence & Democracy
IP-PAD is a MSCA Doctoral Network funded by Horizon Europe that trains a new generation of researchers – twelve Doctoral Candidates - to study the development of political self in adolescents.
The goal of the network is two-fold:
- to offer interdisciplinary training and prepare the doctoral candidates for a career (academic or non-academic) and
- to bring multiple disciplines together (political science, psychology and neuroscience) to study, for the first time, the developing political brain and behaviour of Generation Alpha (born after 2010) across five European countries.
Dr. Bert Bakker (Univeristy of Amsterdam): "’By training a new generation of researchers, we’re not just understanding the political minds of today’s adolescents, but also shaping the leaders of tomorrow.’’
Impact
The impact of our research is profound: to safeguard the future of liberal democracies in Europe, we must understand the political development of adolescents, the voters of tomorrow. By understanding why some people are more engaged in politics than others, why some become polarized and how their belief systems form, we can design interventions to encourage political engagement and address polarization and extremism.
More info: www.ippad.eu and IP-PAD - YouTube.
Horizon Europe: MSCA Doctoral Network
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