On 20 November, the RMA hosted the closing conference of the DEFRA (Defence-related research action) research project, which was conducted over two years by a team from the RMA's Sociology Chair (Delphine Resteigne) and the HIVA Centre at KU Leuven (Ezra Dessers). The acronym NEETs refers to nearly 200,000 young people in Belgium who are neither in employment, nor studying, nor engaged in