Streszczenie: Part I Young people’s hopes and fears: personal, local and global perspectives Alistair Ross 1.1. Hopes and fears for the future: An introduction Kim Allen 1.2. Young people’s personal hopes and fears for their future Sarah Minty 1.3. Young people’s hopes and fears for their global and local futures Sumi Hollingworth and Sarah Minty 1.4. Young people’s concerns about crime and violence Alistair Ross 1.5. Agendas of aspiration and apprehension: What we need to investigate next Part II Young people’s optimism towards social issues Anna Zalewska 2.1. Young people’s optimism towards social issues and their sources of information: An introduction Anna Zalewska and Beata Krzywosz-Rynkiewicz 2.2. Youth optimism towards social issues from the local and global perspectives according to country, age and location Beata Krzywosz-Rynkiewicz and Anna Zalewska 2.3. Young people’s optimism and understanding of poverty and unemployment Agnieszka Bojanowska 2.4. Young people’s optimism towards the environment in the local and global perspectives Elena Briones Pérez and Claudia Vallejo 2.5. “Tolerance is a strange thing”. Exploring youth’s understanding and prosocial behaviour Agnieszka Bojanowska 2.6. Healthy future – young people’s optimism towards local and global health Alistair Ross 2.7. Where do young people get information from on social issues? Elena Briones Pérez 2.8. European young people’ sources of information on social issues: Differences according to age, gender and locality Anna Zalewska 2.9. Young people’s optimism in the context of cultural and developmental differences Part III Social and citizenship activity Beata Krzywosz-Rynkiewicz 3.1. Young people’s social and citizenship activity: An introduction Wojciech Siegień 3.2. Action for change at a personal level Alistair Ross and Melinda Dooly 3.3. Political understanding, participation and action Anna Zalewska and Beata Krzywosz-Rynkiewicz 3.4. Optimism and readiness for citizenship activity Beata Krzywosz-Rynkiewicz 3.5. Improving social and citizenship activity: Chances and limitations Appendix Notes about Authors