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Received: 16 June 2020

Accepted: 18 November 2020

First Online: 30 November 2020

Ethics approval and consent to participate

: This study was carried out in accordance with the recommendations of the ethical guidelines of Marie Curie Actions under EU Horizon 2020. The protocol was approved by the Ethics Committee involved in the evaluation of Marie Curie Actions, EU H2020 Rules for Participation, Art. 14. Official Journal of the EU, 2013 []. The project is being also carried out on the basis of the British Educational Research Association Ethical Guidelines for Educational Research (2011) and it has the approval of the University Data Protection officer at the University of Cambridge and the Institute of Criminology’s Research Ethics Committee. All participants in the study were informed about the research and gave voluntary written informed consent in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki. Participants had time to read the consent form and additional explanation was offered when necessary. The information provided in the consent form explained the purpose of the study, the voluntary nature of participation, the possibility to withdraw from the study at any moment without negative consequences in the college education or in any other life domain of the participants, the materials and measures to be used, the procedure to collect the data, and the anonymity and privacy statement.

: Not Applicable.

: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.