With the pandemic, climate change and the war in Ukraine, Hurrelmann says young people find themselves in constant crises.
In a number of German and international media outlets, Hertie School Professor of Public Health and Education Klaus Hurrelmann spoke in recent days on the well-being of young people amid the war in Ukraine.
On the science TV show nano, he said on 10 March that the war “poses an existential uncertainty because young people recognise the upheaval in international security.” Nevertheless, young people have been remarkably resilient even though many have grown up facing a number of different crises over the last 20 years, Hurrelmann says. “Young people have learned to turn their feeling of losing control into the opposite” by taking action, he says. One example is the climate change movement, where young people have become passionately involved.
Hurrelmann also provided his expertise on the effects of the Ukraine, the pandemic and the climate crisis on young adults’ well-being on 3sat, Deutsche Welle, die Welt, Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland and many more in recent weeks.
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Klaus Hurrelmann, Senior Professor of Public Health and Education