Catalan Studies student receives the Government of Catalonia's Young Researcher Award

The work, which was supervised by Jordi Martínez from the secondary school centre in Terrassa, analyses the use of Catalan on digital platforms by the 36 youth organisations found on the official list of the City Council of Terrassa. The methodology used is exploratory, since it includes a case study of Terrassa, and the techniques applied are quantitative (a survey of upper secondary school students in their first year and a data dump on the use of the web, email and social networks by youth organisations in Terrassa) and qualitative (interviews with municipal youth and language policy makers and digital managers of organisations). The results show, among other data, a correlation between mother tongue and the use of Catalan in social networks, and also a predominance of Catalan of 75% in the digital platforms of the entities.

The EAPC Luciana Calvo Award is promoted by the School of Public Administration of Catalonia within the framework of the Young Research Awards, organised annually by the Government of Catalonia. It comes from the financial legacy that Luciana Calvo Ramos left to the School as a result of her relationship with the editorial team of Revista de Llengua i Dret. The award recognises works written by students in the third and fourth years of Compulsory Secondary Education (ESO) and post-compulsory education that provide reflection, analysis or proposals on one of the three thematic areas of the journal: administrative and legal language, linguistic law and language policy.