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Research project GROWING UP IN LITHUANIA (ViP-RAIDA):
Sociocultural Change in Lithuania Through the Lens of Child and Adolescent Studies
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Project activities
A multidisciplinary team – comprising researchers in psychology, linguistics, and data management – will carry out the following activities:
1. Archive, systematize, and enable access to Lithuanian child development research datasets (2005–2025) and related artefacts to expand availability for Lithuanian and international scholars;
2. Conduct integrated empirical and systematic analysis to identify patterns in psychosocial development and its links to sociocultural factors;
3. Disseminate results through scientific publications, conference presentations, “data discovery” workshops, and outreach initiatives.
The project will enable interdisciplinary analysis of national development through the lens of children’s lived experiences. It will also contribute to researchers and institutional collaboration, capacity building, promote data openness, support long-term monitoring of national development, and enable comparative studies.
Over the past 20 years, Lithuania has undergone significant sociocultural and economic shifts that have shaped the field of children’s and adolescents’ psychosocial development (e.g., economic fluctuations, rapid digitalization, the COVID-19 pandemic). Although numerous important studies on child development have been conducted, they have not been systematically analyzed or empirically synthesized, and links to broader societal transformations remain only partially revealed.
The project ViP-RAIDA aims to explore how children’s psychosocial development processes are related to Lithuania’s societal changes over the past two decades, particularly how language, cultural expression, and national identity are shifting within contemporary developmental contexts influenced by digitalization, migration, and other transformations.
The project also aims to create an interdisciplinary, internationally standardized digital repository of Lithuanian child and adolescent development research by systematizing and cataloguing datasets according to global standards at the Lithuanian Data Archive for SSH (LiDA).
The project is funded by the Research Council of Lithuania under the Programme Lituanistika, contract No. S-LISm-25-14. It is being implemented from September 2025 to December 2028.
The project is being implemented by researchers from the Institute of Psychology, Faculty of Philosophy, Vilnius University, in collaboration with the Educational Research Centre and the Data Analysis and Archiving Centre (DAtA) of the Faculty of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts, Kaunas University of Technology.
The catalogue being developed by ViP-RAIDA can be found here: https://lida.dataverse.lt/dataverse/ProjectData_ViPRAIDA