The research group on Youth, Society and Communication, JOVIS.com, is an interdisciplinary and interuniversity group coordinated by Mònica Figueras-Maz and recognized and funded by the Catalan Government as a Consolidated Research Group. It has the active participation of researchers from other Catalan, national and international universities.
JOVIS.com investigates youth and youth policies from different theoretical and methodological approaches and emphasizes the transfer of academic knowledge to the public sector and the educational world. Its contributions have had an important social impact, mainly thanks to the applied-involved research, as well as generating a contrasted international impact.
The approach to the topics in JOVIS.com is interdisciplinary: anthropology, communication, economics, education, geography, law, pedagogy, and sociology.
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