YOUTH 2020 - The position of young people in Slovenia

28 bases, especially when it comes to in-depth long-term monitoring of youth areas. Therefore, in preparing the survey, we also took into account the Resolution on the EuropeanUnion Youth Strategy 2019-2027, adopted by the EU Council (Education, Youth, Culture and Sport – DG EAC) at its meeting on 26 and 27 November 2018, the EU Youth Report (EC 2015), European youth report, Flash Eurobarometer 455 (EC 2018), Situation of young people in the European Union: Commission staff working docu- ment (EC 2018), partnership documents on youth between the European Commission and the Council of Europe, the Child Welfare Index (IRSSV) and the Youth Progress Index (EYF), and other relevant sources. We are also following the recommendations of the European Commission from the EU Youth Strategy, which already in 2009 emphasized the impor- tance of evidence-based policy-making and partly manifested itself in the use of the conclusions of theMladina 2010 survey to draft a Resolution on the National Youth Program 2013-2022, which among other things emphasizes the importance of evidence-based policy-making. Slovenia belongs to the group of countries that does not have systemical- ly regulated monitoring of young people’s social situation established at the national level (ReNPM13-22), even though “the establishment of such a monitoring system also makes sense due to the needs of reporting to the European Commission” (ibid.). In view of this, the Mladina 2020 survey and the strategic research partnership between the University of Maribor and the University of Ljubljana are also understood as good foundations for the development of much-needed long-term research and analytical infrastructure that will lead to the implementation of the goal set in the National Youth Program 2013–2022. Taking into account the above principles and methodological character- istics of the study, the Mladina 2020 research is thus oriented towards the greatest possible support for the process of “evidence-based public policy”. This is reflected in focused analyses with clearly derived re- search conclusions and has a visible emphasis on longitudinal and inter- national comparisons, especially with European countries, as well as special attention to combining the quantitative and qualitative part of the research or data into one comprehensive unit.