At Egmont, we strive to base our key focus areas and grants on knowledge. We involve research, listen to experts – both children and adults – and initiate our own studies when there is a lack of knowledge about challenges and solutions for children and young people at risk.
Some children and young people have such difficulty with maths that it negatively affects their chances in life. This was stated in the Egmont Report 2023, which focused on difficulties with maths. Based on studies, children’s voices and best practice examples, the Egmont Report has for several years explored specific challenges for children and young people living in difficult conditions – and suggested solutions. In recent years, we have looked into topics such as child poverty, starting school, dyslexia, learning for children in care, young children’s well-being, paternity leave, extra support in school, young people during the Covid-19 pandemic and children and young people in grief.
In addition to the Egmont Report, we conduct studies that can help shed new light on challenges and solutions for children and young people in vulnerable positions.
In our latest study, we focus on the summer holidays of economically distressed families with children. The study suggests that for children in economically distressed families, the summer is a time without activities and a longing for experiences with family and friends which are unaffordable.
Five principles for working
with knowledge
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Knowledge to learn
It is important for us that the initiatives we support are evaluated. But we do not have specific requirements for scope, surveys and evaluation design. The objective is to give everyone the opportunity to learn from the experience – and thus create as positive change for children and young people at risk as possible.
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Knowledge to qualify
We strive to ensure that relevant knowledge underpins the initiatives we support for the benefit of children and young people at risk.
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Knowledge must be shared with professionals
The knowledge, results and learning that Egmont and those we support generate must to the widest possible extent be shared with others. This will allow us to learn more about challenges and solutions.
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Proportionality
We suggest that the scope of the evaluation is adapted to the initiative, so as to ensure proportionality between the resources spent on the initiative and evaluation, respectively.
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Children and young people in focus
It is important for us that children and young people’s own perspectives play a relevant role in the design and evaluation of the supported initiatives.