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-19pandemic). 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, 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. A multidisciplinary team—comprising researchers in psychology, linguistics, and data management—will carry out the following activities: • Archive, systematize, and enable access to Lithuanian child development research datasets (2005–2025) and related artefacts to expand availability for Lithuanian and international scholars; • Conduct integrated empirical and systematic analysis to identify patterns in psychosocial development and its links to sociocultural factors; • Disseminate results through scientific publications, conference presentations, hackatons, 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 researcher and institutional collaboration, capacity building, promote data openness, support long-term monitoring of national development, and enable comparative studies.
Project funding:
Research Council of Lithuania, Programme for the implementation of the priority of Lithuanian studies in 2025–2030
Project results:
Main outcomes of the project: a compendium of studies on the psychosocial development of children and adolescents conducted in Lithuania over the past 20 years, together with a historical overview of these studies; a digital dataset of child and adolescent research hosted within the reliable data infrastructure of LiDA, enabling proper storage, cataloguing, and open access to research data; and an integrated variable search system within the dataset that allows users to locate relevant data from developmental studies conducted in Lithuania and to carry out comparative and secondary analyses.
Period of project implementation: 2025-09-01 - 2028-08-31
Project coordinator: Vilnius University
Project partners: Kaunas University of Technology
