The structures of youth participation in Catalonia since the democratic transition (DOI: 10.2436/20.3000.02.28) Autors/ores Pere Soler Masó Universitat de Girona (UdG) Anna Maria Novella Cámara Universitat de Barcelona (UB) Anna Planas Lladó Universitat de Girona (UdG) Paraules clau: young people participation, youth participation, democracy, youth policies, Catalonia Resum Youth participation is and has been a concept with many considerations, meanings and forms of application, both nationally and internationally. In order to ascertain the evolution of the main structures of youth participation, this article starts with the frames that have motivated this participation in Europe, and then it analyses the evolution of some of the participative youth structures in Catalonia in recent decades: local and municipal youth councils. The article also examines some of the longstanding challenges of youth participation, which aim to overcome the structuring of traditional channels of participation and generate other ways of taking part in everyday community life.Key words: young people participation, youth participation, democracy, youth policies, CataloniaOriginal source: Educació i Història: Revista d'Història de l'Educació, 25: 211-237 (2015) Descàrregues Les dades de descàrrega encara no estan disponibles. Descàrregues PDF (English) Número Núm. 5 (2015) Secció Pedagogia Llicència The intellectual property of articles belongs to the respective authors.On publishing articles to the journal Catalan Social Sciences Review (CSSR), authors accept the following terms:Authors assign to Philosophy and Social Sciences Section (a subsidiary of Institut d’Estudis Catalans) the rights of reproduction, communication to the public and distribution of the articles published in Catalan Social Sciences Review (CSSR).Authors are responsible for obtaining permission for the reproduction of all graphic material included in articles.Philosophy and Social Sciences Section declines all liability for the possible infringement of intellectual property rights by authors.The contents published in the journal, unless otherwise stated in the text or in the graphic material, are subject to a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (by-nc-nd) 3.0 Spain licence, the complete text of which may be found at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/deed.en. Consequently, the general public is authorised to reproduce, distribute and communicate the work, provided that its authorship and the body publishing it are acknowledged, and that no commercial use and no derivative works are made of it.Catalan Social Sciences Review (CSSR) is not responsible for the ideas and opinions expressed by the authors of the published articles.