Programmes

Engaged
Youths

ENGAGED Youth is an international research partnership exploring how young people engage with society, identity, and civic life. As a UK delivery partner, Osmani Trust supports the meaningful involvement of young people from diverse and marginalised backgrounds, ensuring their voices shape research, learning, and policy development.

Through youth-led Living Labs, dialogue, and co-creation, the project centres lived experience to better understand belonging, participation, and trust in institutions. ENGAGED Youth strengthens young people’s agency by recognising them not as subjects of research, but as contributors to knowledge and social change.

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Partner universities involved

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NGO partners supporting youth

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Countries represented

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Youth age groups included
About This
Programme

Young people
shaping

social change

ENGAGED Youth is an international research partnership exploring how young people engage with society, identity, and civic life. As the UK delivery partner, Osmani Trust supports the meaningful participation of young people from diverse and marginalised backgrounds, ensuring lived experience informs research, dialogue, and learning.

The project uses youth-led Living Labs, discussion spaces, and co-creation activities to centre young people’s voices in understanding belonging, participation, and trust in institutions. ENGAGED Youth positions young people as contributors to knowledge and insight, supporting research that informs policy, practice, and long-term social understanding.

Key
Deliverables

Youth-Led Living Labs

Facilitated spaces enabling young people to explore identity, belonging, and participation through discussion and co-creation.

Community Dialogue Sessions

Safe forums supporting discussion between young people, practitioners, and researchers on civic and social issues.

Policy & Practice Input

Contribution of youth-informed learning to wider research outputs intended to inform future policy and practice.

Participatory Research Engagement

Structured involvement of young people as contributors to research, sharing lived experience to inform learning and insight.

Knowledge Co-Creation

Collaborative development of research insights shaped directly by young people’s perspectives.

Inclusive Youth Participation

Ensuring participation from diverse and marginalised young people through trusted, community-based engagement.