According to the professor, the participation of young people, just as the rest of the population, has changed into new perspectives characterised by the desire to be the principal characters in the decision making within the public space. “This fact has caused the overflowing of the classical youth participation strategies such as the inclusion in associations”. In this sense, he points out that “the new ways of participation are linked mainly to the use of new technologies and the fact of leading conducts that are no longer stable in order to condense themselves in specific moments and to be deactivated after that due to the topics that affect the youth”. 

Generally, the professor of the University of Alacant considers that the youth participation is not in crisis, but it has changed. "The interest in youth policy has increased greatly in the last 15 years, but this interest is noticed from a critical position. However, the questioning of the institutions does not match with significant social mobilisation conducts”.  

In his opinion, the youth participative mobilisation has remained low in the last decade despite the fact that young people have been the most negatively affected by the economic crisis. The peak of the mobilisation in 2011 with citizen protests and different platforms that configured 15M became for young people a start-up illusion that faded over time. All these topics will be addressed in the conference of ‘Generació Jove’. 

Throughout this academic course, the UV and the IVAJ have organised five conferences in the Cultural Centre La Nau about youth participation and policies with the aim of discussing and finding solutions to end up with the problems that concern the youth. The entry is free.