Francisco Simões
Biographic Data
| ID | 124033 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Francisco Simões |
| GIVEN NAMES | Francisco |
| FAMILY NAME | Simões |
| SIGNATURE | SIMÕES F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5290-9086 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 64 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Everyone in their right place: A place-based perspective on the EU Right to Stay strategy and rural youth mobilities
Synergizing academia and industry in a Renewable Energy Community: Toward a sustainable energy transition
Synergy between university and industry is explored to foster energy transition. • Scenarios show up to 39.6 % energy self-sufficiency, reducing CO2 emissions. • Financial analysis shows high NPV, making renewable energy projects viable. • RECs enable industry to benefit from lower costs and enhanced competitiveness. • Matching energy supply and consumption profiles optimizes REC models. Renewable Energy Communities (RECs) are increasingly promot…
Predictors of the Neet status: The role of stress, behavioural problems, social support, and quality of life in a serial mediation model
Os pés na terra, o futuro no ar: Os jovens Neef rurais em Portugal e as políticas aspiracionais na UE
As crises recorrentes afetam mais intensamente os jovens, em particular aqueles que estão fora dos sistemas educativos e formativos e do mercado de trabalho (NEEF). Neste artigo analisamos alguns dos fatores de risco que contribuem para explicar a prevalência de jovens NEEF nos territórios rurais, focando o caso português. Comparamos estas dimensões com os indicadores de referência do Pilar Europeu dos Direitos Sociais (PEDS) e discutimos a verti…
The Implementation of the European Pillar of Social Rights in the Era of Polycrisis
This thematic issue focuses on the implementation of the European Pillar of Social Rights (EPSR) amid a context of polycrisis. It examines how overlapping global disruptions such as the Covid‐19 pandemic or current geopolitical instability have shaped structural inequalities across Europe, including among the most vulnerable groups, challenging the European social model. This editorial emphasizes how the different articles in this issue address E…
A humanidade como pátria
Editorial da edição 31
Rural Neets School to Work Transitions: A Conceptual Model Based on the Psychology of Working Theory
INTRODUCTION: Rural young people Not in Employment, Education or Training (NEET) are one of the most vulnerable and invisible groups facing School to Work Transitions (STWT) in Europe. This paper aims to deliver a theoretical model for understanding the STWT of rural NEETs. METHODS: The proposed model stems from an overview of the relevant factors affecting rural STWT, a scoping review of the empirical findings of the Rural NEET Youth Network, an…
A Mapping Review on Neets ' Psychological Characteristics: Informing Policies and Programs
The acronym NEET refers to youth aged 15–29 who are not engaged in employment, education or training. Although acknowledged as a social, economic and political problem, existing policies struggle to re‐engage NEET youth in formal education or work because of the lack of understanding of their psychological characteristics. This mapping review, guided by PRISMA methodology, aimed to map specific NEETs' psychological characteristics. AI research to…
Unveiling the Complexity of Italian Neet Status through Latent Class Analysis: Examining Neet Profiles and their Engagement with Public Employment Services (PES)
This study delves into the complex issue of NEET (Not in Employment, Education, or Training) status in Italy, using Latent Class Analysis (LCA) to identify distinct profiles within this heterogeneous group. The research, based on a survey of 970 young Italian NEETs, goes beyond broad categorizations to explore the socio-demographic, economic, and motivational factors that contribute to their situations. Six distinct classes of NEETs were identifi…
Neets in European rural areas: Individual features, support systems and policy measures
This open access book discusses the most pressing challenges faced by vulnerable youth in rural areas in Europe and sets a policy agenda.
Designing vocational training policies in an outermost European region: Highlights from a participatory process
This paper presents a systematic framework of the most needed Vocational Education and Training (VET) reforms in The Azores, a Portuguese outermost region. Our report is based on a participatory research approach involving the perspectives of five different groups of stakeholders. Our data was collected in 18 virtual world-café sessions ( n = 164 participants—58 trainees; 21 trainers; 42 institutional representatives; 21 unemployed people registe…
Active Labour Market Policies and Youth Employment in European Peripheries
This thematic issue discusses the design, implementation, and impact of youth-oriented active labour market policies in Europe, with a particular emphasis on its peripheries. The need to address territorialised, youth-oriented active labour market policies is pressing for several reasons. For one, the whole socioeconomic paradigm is undergoing fundamental changes due to the dual transition (digital and green) that is expected to have an impact on…
Rural Neets ' hope across the Covid‐19 pandemic: A bioecological longitudinal mapping
My aim is to map the socioecology of rural emergent adults Not in Employment, nor in Education or Training (NEET)'s hope during the COVID‐19 pandemic period. The study involved 213 participants ( M age = 26.35; DP = 4.15; 66.20% women) in a three‐wave longitudinal study running between June 2020 and June 2021, in The Azores Islands, Portugal. Inspired by the bioecological model and using a linear mixed model approach, I found that: (i) female NEE…
Multiple autonomy support attunement connections with perceived competence in learning and school grades among rural adolescents
Youth involvement in alcohol and drug prevention: A systematic review
To review and analyse how youth involvement was conceptualised and applied in published alcohol and drug preventive interventions. A systematic review of the scientific literature on alcohol and drug prevention where young people (18–29 years old) participated at any stage of the intervention was conducted. We searched relevant bibliographic databases and online repositories for peer‐reviewed studies published between 2001 and 2021. Twenty‐seven …
Public Employment Services and Vulnerable Youth in the EU: The Case of Rural Neets
The Covid-19 pandemic created unprecedented pressure to accelerate public employment services (PES) digitalisation across Europe. In fact, there is now a considerable amount of funding dedicated to that goal in broadband policy packages, such as the Recovery and Resilience Mechanism. This pressure for digitalizing PES presumes that its benefits outweigh the existing risks, regardless of citizens’ singularities, such as vulnerable young people goi…
Neets and Youth Guarantee Registration: Examining the Link to Past Undeclared Work
A myriad of factors influence young people’s vulnerability and the likelihood of becoming NEET. Moreover, the share of young NEETs in European countries is very high. Institutional and governmental initiatives aiming to promote the inclusion of young people in the labour market are of paramount importance. However, the socio-economic conditions and the level of vulnerability alongside other socio-demographic characteristics are likely to influenc…
Subjective Well‐Being of Neets and Employability: A Study of Non‐Urban Youths in Spain, Italy, and Portugal
Subjective well-being is of paramount importance when support is offered to young individuals seeking employment and social inclusion in general. The present study looks at different dimensions of youth well-being and the growing demands for skills to enable labour market integration. Based on survey data, this article examines the relationships between the role of public employment services in providing support and their impact on the subjective…
Predictors of Secondary Education Completion across Portuguese Municipalities: Evidence from the 2009–2018 Period
Our overriding goal was to understand territorial inequalities regarding secondary school completion by testing which contextual factors and educational resources are associated with their change in high- and low-density Portuguese municipalities. Our analysis covered the time between 2009 and 2018, including both the economic crisis and the economic recovery period. Drawing mostly on publicly available data from 253 municipalities and following …
Scrutinising the Exceptionalism of Young Rural Neets: A Bibliometric Review
The situation of rural NEETs aged 15 to 24 remains understudied. However, transitions from adolescence to emerging adulthood are very demanding for those in the countryside. Our paper discusses this gap by characterising the scholarship focusing on rural NEETs. We undertook a bibliometric review based on 325 entries on Web of Science (WoS) using the Bibliometrix analysis package. Our approach included descriptive bibliometric analysis, co-citatio…
Rapid Evidence Assessment Protocol for the Meta-Analysis of Initiatives, Interventions and Programmes That Target Rural Neets
The acronym NEET refers to youths aged between 15 and 34 years old who are excluded from employment, education or training. However, historically, the NEET demographic has been depicted as a largely homogenous group. Against this backdrop and given the dependency of rural economies on agricultural practices for survival, such practices have been in decline for a number of years, seriously threatening rural communities’ sustainability. While these…
The increasing relevance of European rural young people in policy agendas: Contributions from community psychology
Our paper aims to provide a short guide on how community psychologists can contribute to the improvement of rural young people's prospects. After briefly introducing the demographic trends of these young people in continental Europe for the past decade, we list the current challenges faced by rural European young generations, as well as the opportunities emerging for them from the twin transition that can inspire the community psychology field. W…
Neets civic and political participation in outermost islands: The mediating roles of sense of community and agency
Our aim is to test the associations between collectivism, social support, sense of community, as well as agency with civic and political participation levels of NEETs living in The Azores, a group of islands forming a small and outermost archipelago. We surveyed 332 participants ( M = 26.78; 69.30% women). We found that all factors, except for social support, were associated with higher participation levels among NEETs. We also found that stronge…
Determinants of Job-Finding Intentions Among Young Adults from 11 European Countries
In this study we investigate the impact of individual, parental and social factors on young adults’ job-finding intentions across countries and overall. We test our hypotheses by conducting binary logistic regressions on the basis of an original dataset that comprises responses from more than 5200 young adults and their parents from 11 European countries. Our findings show that individual factors are most decisive in shaping the job-finding inten…
Becoming a Young Farmer in the Digital Age-An Island Perspective
This study investigates the career construction paths of young farmers and aims to contribute to the literature on the 'young farmer problem.' Of particular relevance is this study's focus on the potential of islands as a new career landscape in the digital age. Young farmers' subjective experiences toward careers were analyzed based on narrative interviews, quantitative surveys and expert interviews from two EU islands: Crete and the Azores. Fir…
Neets in a rural region of Southern Europe: Perceived self-efficacy, perceived barriers, educational expectations, and vocational expectations
The aim of this research is to understand the influence of demographic and professional experience factors on the self-efficacy and perceived barriers of rural Portuguese youths not in employment, education or training (NEET), as well as on their educational and vocational expectations at age 35. These indicators are involved in the compromise mechanism of choice of the circumscription and compromise theory, a construct that describes the reason …
Becoming a Young Farmer in the Digital Age-An Island Perspective
This study investigates the career construction paths of young farmers and aims to contribute to the literature on the 'young farmer problem.' Of particular relevance is this study's focus on the potential of islands as a new career landscape in the digital age. Young farmers' subjective experiences toward careers were analyzed based on narrative interviews, quantitative surveys and expert interviews from two EU islands: Crete and the Azores. Fir…
How to increase rural Neets professional involvement in agriculture? The roles of youth representations and vocational training packages improvement
Beyond the prophecy success: How place attachment and future time perspective shape rural university students intentions of returning to small islands
Rural areas are struggling with youth mobility to urban centers. We address this challenge by testing the interplay between objective factors underlying mobility, namely socio-economic status indicators, and subjective factors, specifically Place Attachment (PA) and Future Time Perspective (FTP), and how they connect with the returning intentions of university students with a rural background after their graduation. We also explore how the connec…
How to involve rural Neet youths in agriculture? Highlights of an untold story
This article discusses how to involve rural youths not in employment, education, or training (or NEETs) in agriculture. A Portuguese network-based project called Terra Nostra, carried out from 2013 to 2015 to engage and train NEETs in ecoagriculture activities, was examined to address this issue. The study focused on three aspects: a reanalysis of Terra Nostra’s final report, based on the bioecological model, targeting typical problems with NEETs…
A matter of teaching and relationships: Determinants of teaching style, interpersonal resources and teacher burnout
Neets civic and political participation in outermost islands: The mediating roles of sense of community and agency
Our aim is to test the associations between collectivism, social support, sense of community, as well as agency with civic and political participation levels of NEETs living in The Azores, a group of islands forming a small and outermost archipelago. We surveyed 332 participants ( M = 26.78; 69.30% women). We found that all factors, except for social support, were associated with higher participation levels among NEETs. We also found that stronge…
Determinants of Job-Finding Intentions Among Young Adults from 11 European Countries
In this study we investigate the impact of individual, parental and social factors on young adults’ job-finding intentions across countries and overall. We test our hypotheses by conducting binary logistic regressions on the basis of an original dataset that comprises responses from more than 5200 young adults and their parents from 11 European countries. Our findings show that individual factors are most decisive in shaping the job-finding inten…
Socioeconomic status, multiple autonomy support attunement, and early adolescents' social development
This study explores the relationship between socioeconomic status (SES), multiple autonomy support attunement (MASA), and social development indicators (antisocial behavior, prosociality, and self‐regulation), considering the concurrent effects of structural (gender and age) and social factors (social networks’ size and orientation). MASA describes patterns of autonomy support provided by different sources, which, in this case, were parents, teac…
Subjective Well‐Being of Neets and Employability: A Study of Non‐Urban Youths in Spain, Italy, and Portugal
Subjective well-being is of paramount importance when support is offered to young individuals seeking employment and social inclusion in general. The present study looks at different dimensions of youth well-being and the growing demands for skills to enable labour market integration. Based on survey data, this article examines the relationships between the role of public employment services in providing support and their impact on the subjective…
Professional development perspectives across gender and age groups of under‐qualified rural Neets
Our study explored how self‐efficacy perceptions are associated with Perceived Barriers (PB), meaning beliefs about constraints on current/future vocational development, and Professional Expectations (PE) among rural, under‐qualified youths Not in Employment, nor in Education or Training (NEET). We also analyzed how the connections between these factors varied across gender and age groups. One hundred and eighty‐eight NEETs participated in this s…
Active Labour Market Policies and Youth Employment in European Peripheries
This thematic issue discusses the design, implementation, and impact of youth-oriented active labour market policies in Europe, with a particular emphasis on its peripheries. The need to address territorialised, youth-oriented active labour market policies is pressing for several reasons. For one, the whole socioeconomic paradigm is undergoing fundamental changes due to the dual transition (digital and green) that is expected to have an impact on…
Public Employment Services and Vulnerable Youth in the EU: The Case of Rural Neets
The Covid-19 pandemic created unprecedented pressure to accelerate public employment services (PES) digitalisation across Europe. In fact, there is now a considerable amount of funding dedicated to that goal in broadband policy packages, such as the Recovery and Resilience Mechanism. This pressure for digitalizing PES presumes that its benefits outweigh the existing risks, regardless of citizens’ singularities, such as vulnerable young people goi…
Predictors of Secondary Education Completion across Portuguese Municipalities: Evidence from the 2009–2018 Period
Our overriding goal was to understand territorial inequalities regarding secondary school completion by testing which contextual factors and educational resources are associated with their change in high- and low-density Portuguese municipalities. Our analysis covered the time between 2009 and 2018, including both the economic crisis and the economic recovery period. Drawing mostly on publicly available data from 253 municipalities and following …
The increasing relevance of European rural young people in policy agendas: Contributions from community psychology
Our paper aims to provide a short guide on how community psychologists can contribute to the improvement of rural young people's prospects. After briefly introducing the demographic trends of these young people in continental Europe for the past decade, we list the current challenges faced by rural European young generations, as well as the opportunities emerging for them from the twin transition that can inspire the community psychology field. W…
Disadvantaged Youths’ Subjective Well-Being: The Role of Gender, Age, and Multiple Social Support Attunement
A eficácia da mentoria escolar na promoção do desenvolvimento socioemocional e instrumental de jovens
O presente artigo constitui uma revisão da literatura acerca da eficácia dos programas de mentoria escolar na promoção do desenvolvimento socioemocional e instrumental de jovens. Para tal, procedeu-se a uma comparação entre as investigações empíricas mais significativas sobre o assunto. A partir dessa análise, é possível verificar que os resultados atribuídos a programas de mentoria são contraditórios e, tendencialmente, de magnitude reduzida. Di…
Satisfação de necessidades psicológicas básicas em crianças e adolescentes: Adaptação e validação da ESNPBR
O objetivo deste trabalho foi adaptar e validar a Escala de Satisfação das Necessidades Psicológicas Básicas na Relação para crianças e adolescentes da população portuguesa. O estudo abrangeu 510 participantes, com idades compreendidas entre os 9 e os 16 anos. Os resultados indicam níveis moderados a elevados de consistência interna e um bom ajustamento das soluções fatoriais com dois e com três fatores. Todavia, a solução fatorial com dois fator…
Neets in a rural region of Southern Europe: Perceived self-efficacy, perceived barriers, educational expectations, and vocational expectations
The aim of this research is to understand the influence of demographic and professional experience factors on the self-efficacy and perceived barriers of rural Portuguese youths not in employment, education or training (NEET), as well as on their educational and vocational expectations at age 35. These indicators are involved in the compromise mechanism of choice of the circumscription and compromise theory, a construct that describes the reason …
Disadvantaged Youths’ Subjective Well-Being: The Role of Gender, Age, and Multiple Social Support Attunement
How to involve rural Neet youths in agriculture? Highlights of an untold story
This article discusses how to involve rural youths not in employment, education, or training (or NEETs) in agriculture. A Portuguese network-based project called Terra Nostra, carried out from 2013 to 2015 to engage and train NEETs in ecoagriculture activities, was examined to address this issue. The study focused on three aspects: a reanalysis of Terra Nostra’s final report, based on the bioecological model, targeting typical problems with NEETs…
Socioeconomic status, multiple autonomy support attunement, and early adolescents' social development
This study explores the relationship between socioeconomic status (SES), multiple autonomy support attunement (MASA), and social development indicators (antisocial behavior, prosociality, and self‐regulation), considering the concurrent effects of structural (gender and age) and social factors (social networks’ size and orientation). MASA describes patterns of autonomy support provided by different sources, which, in this case, were parents, teac…
A matter of teaching and relationships: Determinants of teaching style, interpersonal resources and teacher burnout
Beyond the prophecy success: How place attachment and future time perspective shape rural university students intentions of returning to small islands
Rural areas are struggling with youth mobility to urban centers. We address this challenge by testing the interplay between objective factors underlying mobility, namely socio-economic status indicators, and subjective factors, specifically Place Attachment (PA) and Future Time Perspective (FTP), and how they connect with the returning intentions of university students with a rural background after their graduation. We also explore how the connec…
How to increase rural Neets professional involvement in agriculture? The roles of youth representations and vocational training packages improvement
Professional development perspectives across gender and age groups of under‐qualified rural Neets
Our study explored how self‐efficacy perceptions are associated with Perceived Barriers (PB), meaning beliefs about constraints on current/future vocational development, and Professional Expectations (PE) among rural, under‐qualified youths Not in Employment, nor in Education or Training (NEET). We also analyzed how the connections between these factors varied across gender and age groups. One hundred and eighty‐eight NEETs participated in this s…
An Analysis of Social Relationships’ Quality Associations with Hope Among Young Italians: The Role of Neet Status
Soft Skills and Psychological Well-being: A Study on Italian Rural and Urban Neets
Soft skills retain a certain importance in fully understanding the NEET phenomenon: however, only few researchers have focused on them specifically. The aim of this work is two-fold: a) to detect the differences in terms of soft skills and psychological well-being between urban and rural NEETs; and b) to evaluate which of the soft skills analysed may be predictors of psychological well-being. A sample of young 6998 18−34 years old representative …
Scrutinising the Exceptionalism of Young Rural Neets: A Bibliometric Review
The situation of rural NEETs aged 15 to 24 remains understudied. However, transitions from adolescence to emerging adulthood are very demanding for those in the countryside. Our paper discusses this gap by characterising the scholarship focusing on rural NEETs. We undertook a bibliometric review based on 325 entries on Web of Science (WoS) using the Bibliometrix analysis package. Our approach included descriptive bibliometric analysis, co-citatio…
Rapid Evidence Assessment Protocol for the Meta-Analysis of Initiatives, Interventions and Programmes That Target Rural Neets
The acronym NEET refers to youths aged between 15 and 34 years old who are excluded from employment, education or training. However, historically, the NEET demographic has been depicted as a largely homogenous group. Against this backdrop and given the dependency of rural economies on agricultural practices for survival, such practices have been in decline for a number of years, seriously threatening rural communities’ sustainability. While these…
The increasing relevance of European rural young people in policy agendas: Contributions from community psychology
Our paper aims to provide a short guide on how community psychologists can contribute to the improvement of rural young people's prospects. After briefly introducing the demographic trends of these young people in continental Europe for the past decade, we list the current challenges faced by rural European young generations, as well as the opportunities emerging for them from the twin transition that can inspire the community psychology field. W…
Neets civic and political participation in outermost islands: The mediating roles of sense of community and agency
Our aim is to test the associations between collectivism, social support, sense of community, as well as agency with civic and political participation levels of NEETs living in The Azores, a group of islands forming a small and outermost archipelago. We surveyed 332 participants ( M = 26.78; 69.30% women). We found that all factors, except for social support, were associated with higher participation levels among NEETs. We also found that stronge…
Determinants of Job-Finding Intentions Among Young Adults from 11 European Countries
In this study we investigate the impact of individual, parental and social factors on young adults’ job-finding intentions across countries and overall. We test our hypotheses by conducting binary logistic regressions on the basis of an original dataset that comprises responses from more than 5200 young adults and their parents from 11 European countries. Our findings show that individual factors are most decisive in shaping the job-finding inten…
Becoming a Young Farmer in the Digital Age-An Island Perspective
This study investigates the career construction paths of young farmers and aims to contribute to the literature on the 'young farmer problem.' Of particular relevance is this study's focus on the potential of islands as a new career landscape in the digital age. Young farmers' subjective experiences toward careers were analyzed based on narrative interviews, quantitative surveys and expert interviews from two EU islands: Crete and the Azores. Fir…
Multiple autonomy support attunement connections with perceived competence in learning and school grades among rural adolescents
Youth involvement in alcohol and drug prevention: A systematic review
To review and analyse how youth involvement was conceptualised and applied in published alcohol and drug preventive interventions. A systematic review of the scientific literature on alcohol and drug prevention where young people (18–29 years old) participated at any stage of the intervention was conducted. We searched relevant bibliographic databases and online repositories for peer‐reviewed studies published between 2001 and 2021. Twenty‐seven …
Public Employment Services and Vulnerable Youth in the EU: The Case of Rural Neets
The Covid-19 pandemic created unprecedented pressure to accelerate public employment services (PES) digitalisation across Europe. In fact, there is now a considerable amount of funding dedicated to that goal in broadband policy packages, such as the Recovery and Resilience Mechanism. This pressure for digitalizing PES presumes that its benefits outweigh the existing risks, regardless of citizens’ singularities, such as vulnerable young people goi…
Neets and Youth Guarantee Registration: Examining the Link to Past Undeclared Work
A myriad of factors influence young people’s vulnerability and the likelihood of becoming NEET. Moreover, the share of young NEETs in European countries is very high. Institutional and governmental initiatives aiming to promote the inclusion of young people in the labour market are of paramount importance. However, the socio-economic conditions and the level of vulnerability alongside other socio-demographic characteristics are likely to influenc…
Subjective Well‐Being of Neets and Employability: A Study of Non‐Urban Youths in Spain, Italy, and Portugal
Subjective well-being is of paramount importance when support is offered to young individuals seeking employment and social inclusion in general. The present study looks at different dimensions of youth well-being and the growing demands for skills to enable labour market integration. Based on survey data, this article examines the relationships between the role of public employment services in providing support and their impact on the subjective…
Predictors of Secondary Education Completion across Portuguese Municipalities: Evidence from the 2009–2018 Period
Our overriding goal was to understand territorial inequalities regarding secondary school completion by testing which contextual factors and educational resources are associated with their change in high- and low-density Portuguese municipalities. Our analysis covered the time between 2009 and 2018, including both the economic crisis and the economic recovery period. Drawing mostly on publicly available data from 253 municipalities and following …
Neets in European rural areas: Individual features, support systems and policy measures
This open access book discusses the most pressing challenges faced by vulnerable youth in rural areas in Europe and sets a policy agenda.
Psychology (24 works) · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics (23 works) · Political science (20 works) · Social Psychology (14 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Economic growth (13 works) · Economics (13 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (10 works) · Rural development and sustainability (9 works) · Social Psychology (8 works)