Professional Sector: Youth research

First name: Manfred

Last name: Zentner

Nationality: Austria

Languages:

• German - native speaker
• English - good
• Russian - poor
• Spanish - poor

Postal address: 1190 Wien, Alserbachstraße 18/7

Country: Austria

Tel: +43 1 532 67 95 or + 43 676 9232929

E-mail: mzentner@jugendkultur.at

Website: http://www.jugendkultur.at/

Social networks: Skype, facebook, linkedIn, Xing: Manfred Zentner

Organisation: jugendkultur.at

Few words about me: I studied Mathematics and Philosophy but work as a youth researcher since 1997. My main fields of interest are youth cultures, political participation of young people and attitudes and values. Furthermore I am active in evaluation studies on youth policy and on the implementation of preventive concepts and health promotion in youth work.
From 1997 to 1999 I was researcher at the Austrian Institute for Youth Research where I became scientific director in 2000. Since 2001 I work in the fields of research and knowledge transfer at the private research organisation “Institute for Youth Culture Research” (jugendkultur.at) in Vienna. I am also lecturer at various teacher training universities in Austria.
Already in the late 1990s I was involved in the network of experts on youth research and one of the national correspondents for the EKCYP since its start.
In the year 2007 I was raporteur in the Council of Europe international review team for the national youth policy in Hungary and in the year 2011 I will be raporteur for the international review of the youth policy in Belgium.

 My Curriculum Vitae