Call for the Special Issue on „Policy and Programme Effectiveness for Adolescents, Youth and Young Adults: Insights and Evidence", Issue no. 3/2025

2024-12-04

Quality of Life Journal announces a special issue together with PROFEEDBACK COST Action CA20112, titled „Policy and Programme Effectiveness for Adolescents, Youth and Young Adults: Insights and Evidence". The journal seeks articles for a special issue on the evaluation of programs, policies and measures targeting adolescents and youth, to be published in August 2025.  The main objective of this special issue is to present high-quality scientific evaluations of the impact and outcomes of programmes or policies and actions targeted at young people.

The deadline is: 31 March 2025

Young people in Europe face many challenges and numerous programmes, policies and actions aim to assist them, whether at local, national or European level. This special issue aspires to show how evaluation and impact assessment can support evidence-based policies to promote better policies for young Europeans. It intends therefore to provide a forum to discuss the way European countries are addressing the young people`s condition. In order to meet the objective of the special issue, contributions must meet the following criteria:

  • Present the results of an evaluation or impact assessment;
  • The evaluation must focus on one or more measures, policies or programmes targeting adolescents and young people (aged 12-30);
  • Focus on one or more European countries. Comparative papers focusing on at least three countries are particularly encouraged.

We give priority to submissions focusing on employment, fair working conditions, social protection and inclusion. The measure, policy or programme evaluated can be at local, national or EU level, must aim at the integration of adolescents and young people (aged 12-30) and can be in the field of youth work, employment or social services, formal or non-formal education.

The guest editors kindly request to the interested scholars to send papers (4,000 – 8,000 words in length including references), together with an abstract of no more than 250 words through the journal submission system available at https://revistacalitateavietii.ro/journal/about/submissions (with the mention special issue on „Policy and Programme Effectiveness for Adolescents, Youth and Young Adults: Insights and Evidence") until 31 March 2025.

All the papers will be evaluated following a double-blind peer review procedure according to the policy of the Quality of Life Journal. Prior to submission, please check the author’s guidelines - https://www.revistacalitateavietii.ro/journal/about/submissions.

All the articles should be submitted in English. Please note that only proposals in English are accepted for evaluation.

Authors need to register with the journal prior to submitting or, if already registered, can simply log in and begin the five-step process.

The selected authors will be invited to present their results at the PROFEEDBACK event Evaluation on Public Education, Youth Policy on 2025

Guest editors: 

  • Claudia Petrescu (The Research Institute for Quality of Life, Bucharest)
  • Luca Koltai (HÉTFA Research Institute, Budapest)
  • Antonella Rocca (University of Naples "Parthenope", Naples)
  • Jaroslav Dvorak (Klaipėda University, Klaipėda)

Submission process:

  • The selection will be based on the Quality of Life Journal editorial policy, available at: https://www.revistacalitateavietii.ro/journal/ethics-statement
  • The submission of articles should comply with the following guidelines:
    • Articles should be in English.
    • Articles should contain 4000 - 8000 words, including notes, appendices and bibliography.
    • Abstracts should be no more than 250 words long, containing the following elements: introduction/context, research question(s), data and methodology, and preliminary findings.
    • Authors are invited to send the full paper through the journal submission system available at https://revistacalitateavietii.ro/journal/about/submissions

Deadlines:

  • Manuscript submission (open): December 2024 to March 2025
  • Final manuscript submissions to the publisher: June 2025
  • Editorial foreword and Publication: August 2025