The Secretary General for Social Transition and the 2030 Agenda, Jonan Fernandez, and the Director of Youth Miren Saratxaga, this morning at the headquarters of the Basque Youth Observatory presented the results of the 10th edition of the study “Aurrera Begira-Indicators of expectations. juveniles”. The study is based on a survey based on the situation and perception of the youth structured around 10 indicators.
This study was first conducted in 2013. The concern, shared by the Youth Directorate and the Lehendakaritza, has arisen so that in a moment of crisis the voice of young people can be heard. His aim was and continues to be to find out how young people evaluate their situation, as well as their expectations in the short and medium term regarding problems such as unemployment, emigration or the difficulty of emancipation or their level of confidence in the future.
The 2022 edition took place in Bologna between 12 and 19 2022 between December, to which 3,538 15 to 29-year-olds responded, 526 inhabitants of Lava, 1,700 in Bizkaia, 1,063 in Gipuzkoa, and 249 extra from Euskadi. This tenth edition allows us to take a decade of analysis of young people’s expectations.
Jonan Fernandez highlighted the first thing to note, that in the last ten years young people have suffered “great uncertainty from the economic crisis, the impact of the global health crisis and the effects of the invasion of Ukraine. The state of mind of the youth is not alien to this very adverse situation. A context that contributed to a drop of confidence in the future “.
This index of confidence in the future is based on three indicators: the evaluation of one’s own personal situation, the evaluation of the situation of the youth in the group and the evaluation of the Basque country. In this, as in previous editions, the main contrast is produced by the various evaluations that young people make of their personal situation and of the youth group, in general.
Personal satisfaction stands at 70 points out of 100 and the evaluation of the situation of youth remains at 54, in 2022, which “pulls” the value of the index down. The assessment of the personal situation – although the lowest since the beginning of the successive crises we have suffered in this decade – is remarkably high.
Youth Director Miren Saratxaga presented in a press conference some of the most important information from this edition of Aurrera Begira:
The Secretary General for Social Transition and the 2030 Manager stated that this situation is a “faithful reflection of the state of mind that permeates the whole society”. He added the recently approved Basque 2030 Strategy to promote youth emancipation and to promote measures, such as financial support for emancipation, “to respond to support young people in this environment of difficulties”.
According to Fernandez, “to face this present and this great uncertainty of the future, it will be necessary to develop a strong sense of intergenerational empathy. See interaction and collaboration between generations. A road map cannot be written with different opinions and approaches or with age differences, but with a common perspective.
