The 24th Annual Conference of Youth Studies will be held in Helsinki on 3–4 December 2026. Registration for the conference is now open!
The keynote speakers at the Annual Conference of Youth Studies will be Professor Päivi Honkatukia (Tampere University, Youth Work and Youth Research) and Associate Professor Noora Pyyry (University of Helsinki, Department of Geosciences and Geography).
The conference will bring together 32 working groups and also includes keynote lectures, posters and evening reception. The keynote speeches will be held in Finnish, but there will be sessions available also in English.
The Diverse Everyday Lives of Young People
This year’s Annual Conference of Youth Studies invites all those interested in youth research to engage in discussion on the diversity of young people’s everyday lives and the various ways of approaching it. Everyday life will be examined from multidimensional and interdisciplinary perspectives, including questions such as: How do different environments – such as home, school, work, leisure activities, and digital communities – structure young people’s everyday lives? What characterizes young people’s everyday interactions and contexts of action on various online platforms and beyond? How do regional differences manifest in the conditions and forms of everyday life? What kinds of challenges and dimensions of inequality emerge in young people’s daily lives, and how can these be addressed? Which everyday phenomena have remained overlooked in youth research? The aim of the discussion is to identify the dimensions and boundary conditions of young people’s everyday lives, and to open up new perspectives for supporting everyday well-being.
Registration
Register for the conference using the online form (Visit an external site. The link opens in a new tab.).
Participation fees
- Normal participation fee 90 €
- Reduced participation fee (members of the Finnish Youth Research Society and doctoral students) 50 €
- Students 20 €
When registering, you can become a member of the Finnish Youth Research Society and pay a reduced participation fee.
The participation fee includes the conference program, coffee breaks and evening reception.
Organizers
The Annual Conference of Youth Studies 2026 is jointly organized by the Finnish Youth Research Society and the University of Helsinki’s disciplines of home economics (Faculty of Educational Sciences) and sociology (Faculty of Social Sciences).
Principles for safer space
The Finnish Youth Research Society adheres to the principles of a safer space in all its activities and events. The principles aim to ensure that every participant can feel safe without fear of discrimination, harassment or sexual, physical, or verbal abuse. All participants of the confrence are expected to adhere to these principles.
