Editorial: Young Europeans in an Era of Crises. Citizenship Education in a New Perspective

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2 Dr. Henk Oonk, was director of the European Platform for Dutch education and from 2006-2012 he participated in several researchprojects on citizenship education at the University of Groningen (The Netherlands). Since 2012 he is involved as researcher at the Institut fur Politische Bildung (AGORA) at LUH Institut fur Politische Wissenschaft, Leibniz Universitat Hannover, Schneiderberg 50, 30167 Hannover, Germany email: h.oonk@ipw.uni-hannover.de Dr. Gitsa Kontogiannopoulou-Polydorides is Professor Emerita of Sociology of Education, Educational Research and Policy Analysis at the University of Athens, Department of Education, 13 A Navarinou str., Athens email: gpolydor@ecd.uoa.gr Dr. Dirk Lange is Professor for Didactics of Civic Education at the Leibniz University Hanover and Director of the Institute for Didactics of Democracy (IDD). Institut fur Politische Wissenschaft Leibniz Universitat Hannover Schneiderberg 50, 30167 Hannover, Germany email: d.lange@ipw.uni-hannover.de Dr. Yiouli Papadiamantaki is Assistant Professor at the Department of Social and Education Policy at the University of the Peloponnese. Her research interests include EU policies in higher education, governance of higher education systems and citizenship. University of the Peloponnese, Department of Social and Education Policy, Damaskinou & Kolokotroni, 20100 Corinth-Greece. Henk Oonk, Gitsa Kontogiannopoulou-Polydorides, Dirk Lange, Yiouli Papadiamantaki