Abstract
Despite being important policy stakeholders, the youth remain largely absent from policy building and implementation. However, the growing literature has vividly illustrated the capacity of the youth from diverse age groups to make meaningful contributions to policy. In particular, university students are emerging as significant actors in science policy owing to their unique perspectives and knowledge. By drawing from the literature, we emphasize that the youth are capable of directly contributing to diverse policy matters while also indirectly benefiting from their participation. Consequently, there is a crucial need for initiating programs for promoting youth participation. Furthermore, to ensure the fruitfulness of such programs, more systematic research ought to be done with regards to the accomplishments and challenges of youth participation.
Highlights
Youth participation significantly improves policies and helps the youth to grow as mature and responsible citizens
We explore what the youth around the world have achieved as policy actors while introducing a growing literature on the needs and advantages of youth participation in science policy
While the achievements and challenges of youth participation in science policy remains a nascent area of research, emerging accounts and case studies demonstrate the potential and value of youth participation
Summary
Youth participation significantly improves policies and helps the youth to grow as mature and responsible citizens. Policy experts have begun to increasingly argue for fostering youth participation in science policy [6]–[8], but such a development remains closer to a desideratum and far from reality. We explore what the youth around the world have achieved as policy actors while introducing a growing literature on the needs and advantages of youth participation in science policy.
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