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YW - Escape Radicalization 2.0

2019-2-NO02-KA105-0014902019Youth mobilityfinalized
Countries: NO|GE|ES|UA|BY|CZ|EE|DK · Grant: €19,395
Intercultural/intergenerational education and (lifelong)learningNew innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training coursesYouth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

Objectives

This training course has been designed to raise awareness and youth workers’ understanding of the vulnerability and triggering factors leading to radicalization of young people and equip youth workers with engaging methodology to tackle the topic. The training course took up an innovative concept of educational escape games and enhanced it with educational aspects. Escape games involve a team of people working together in order to fulfill challenging mental, logical, at times physical tasks. In an educational iteration of the method, an escape is not necessary, but unraveling the story is. Based on the blend of the two topics we have designed this training course that aimed to enable youth workers to strengthen preventative measures against radicalisation of young people through the use of educational concepts based on escape games. The project set next logical objectives: To foster mutual understanding of the process of radicalization, reasons and preventative measures; To explore escape game methodology, which is seen as an engaging and creative way of storytelling, as an educational approach in youth work; To equip participants with tools for developing educational escape games; To experiment with applying innovative methodology to the topic of radicalization and create at least three educational escape games and test them with the local community at the training venue; To raise awareness of young people about the process of radicalization and its threats through inviting them to participate in educational escape rooms; To empower youth workers/leaders to use escape games while working with hard to reach youth; To create a scenario booklet on escape games on processes triggering radicalization in order to spread the word and support other stakeholders in the field to adopt the methodology. With this training we were seeking to both develop the competences of youth workers/leaders as well as increase the capacity of organizations to work on the topic of radicalization using innovative educational methods.

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