u’GOOD annual conference 2025
This event will be the inception meeting of the u’GOOD research programme community of practice. It will also initiate the u’GOOD-funded projects and provide research teams with the opportunity to share and discuss the objectives of their projects with all research project teams, as well as provide the research programme team with the opportunity to orientate the researchers regarding the research and grants management systems, processes and communications, especially as these pertain to reporting and monitoring, evaluation and strategic learning.
We’ve distilled these overarching intentions into a set of objectives:
- Introduce all projects and create a space for debate and engagement among project participants
- Foster collaboration across the four thematic areas and facilitate the identification of cross-cutting opportunities
- Use the in-person opportunity to have project-related meetings
- Clarify technical grant requirements and provide support for reporting, monitoring, evaluation, strategic learning and communications
- Strengthen the community of practice by planning towards sustained engagement and knowledge-sharing among researchers, funders and youth stakeholders
- Foster collaborative and transformative learning that enhances relational thinking, working and gathering
- Co-create and further develop the community of practice and plan for stakeholder engagement
Conference participants
Twenty-three research projects have been selected to conduct research on relational wellbeing among young people from nine countries: Colombia, Ecuador, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Romania, South Africa, Tanzania and Vietnam.
This inception conference serves as a platform for interdisciplinary dialogue, bringing together Fondation Botnar, the National Research Foundation, the Human Sciences Research Council and Flow Communications, along with principal investigators, senior advisers and youth representatives from the focus countries.