{"id":124368,"date":"2021-03-16T15:37:07","date_gmt":"2021-03-16T14:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=124368"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:25:29","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:25:29","slug":"wanted-young-people-with-good-ideas-on-how-to-relax-the-covid-measures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2021\/03\/16\/wanted-young-people-with-good-ideas-on-how-to-relax-the-covid-measures\/","title":{"rendered":"Wanted: Young people with good ideas on how to relax the Covid measures"},"content":{"rendered":"

Researchers at Erasmus SYNC Lab started a new social media campaign called #fixdetoekomst (\u2018fixthefuture\u2019) on Monday. This campaign encourages young adults to share their thoughts on how the government\u2019s covid measures could be relaxed \u2013 and what they themselves would need for a brighter future.<\/p>\n

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Young people can tell the world which changes should be made first via the hashtag #fixdetoekomst and this website<\/a>. Their ideas will serve as input for a manifesto that will ultimately be presented to the nation\u2019s policymakers.<\/p>\n

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The researchers initiated the campaign for a number of reasons, including the widely discussed negative impact that the current crisis is having on our youth. Researcher Suzanne van de Groep: \u201cWe have learned from our research that young people have been hit quite hard by the covid crisis. But we also see that this group has a lot of good ideas. Through this initiative, we will try to bundle and call attention to those ideas. Whereas communities like the hospitality sector, senior citizens and the SME sector have strong lobbies that work in their interest, young people lack this kind of clout. And this weakens their position in the debate.\u201d<\/p>\n

The SYNC Lab team hope that this campaign will make young people\u2019s voices better heard in the public debate and will lead to concrete results. \u201cAt the start of the covid crisis, Mark Rutte did call on young people to share their feedback. But in young people\u2019s experience, no one has done anything with this input.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\t

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