RT Journal Article
T1 University students’ representations of Europe and self-identification as Europeans: a synthesis of qualitative evidence for future policy formulation
A1 Cores Bilbao, Esther
A1 Méndez García, María del Carmen
A1 Fonseca Mora, María Carmen
AB The current European context is characterised by the emergence of socio-political tensions that threaten to derailthe cohesion objectives traditionally promoted by the authorities of the European Union. With EU citizenship in theshadow of Brexit, the fear of dismemberment of the current Europe of the 28 looms over a renewed debate onconcepts like European identity, European citizenship or EU legitimacy and the involvement of its constituents inEuropean affairs, as well as the role of education for promoting democratic awareness among young Europeans.This work aims to collect, appraise and synthesise qualitative evidence obtained in primary research exploring theperceptions of European university students about their civic and cultural identity. This systematic analysis sets outto identify predictors of positive self-identification with the EU and its institutions, focusing on the impact thatdifferent educational interventions have had on the attitudes and perceptions expressed by university students, andthe importance of foreign language learning in the results obtained. The authors report their assessment of qualityof the findings in a Cochrane-style qualitative evidence synthesis (QES), based on the GRADE-CERQual (Confidencein Evidence from Reviews of Qualitative research) method. The 12 informed findings described in this study supportdecision-making in future education policy formulation.
PB SpringerOpen (part of Springer Nature)
SN 2195-4194
YR 2020
FD 2020-01
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10272/17639
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10272/17639
LA eng
NO Cores Bilbao, E., Méndez García, M. del C.,  Fonseca Mora, M. C. (2020). University students’ representations of Europe and self-identification as Europeans: a synthesis of qualitative evidence for future policy formulation. European Journal of Futures Research, 8(1). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s40309-019-0159-y
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva
RD 14 jul 2026