The Youth 2020 survey was largely designed as a follow-up to a similar survey ten years ago, but it also built in part on the methodological approaches and data of the 2000 survey. This allowed researchers to gain a detailed insight into long-term trends, which proved essential as the most important results of the study relate precisely to trends over the last ten or twenty years. The project involved the Sociology Department of the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Maribor and a team from the Centre for Political Science Research at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Ljubljana, the latter under the leadership of Dr T. Deželan.