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Game zone

2019-3-FR02-KA105-0165762019Youth mobilityfinalized
Countries: FR|SI|MT|BG|EE|PL|CZ|BE|PT|EL|HR · Grant: €22,777
New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training coursesInclusion - equityYouth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

Objectives

The training aims to equip youth workers & youth leaders with tools, frameworks and space to create and implement educational games that address social issues and can be applied in their environments. We set next objectives: - To identify and explore social topics that influence youth in the countries that partner in the project; - To introduce games as an educational tool to tackle various social topics in learning environments; - To give participants tools for mapping and identifying learning needs of their target group; - To equip participants with tools for educational and experiential game design; - To create a set of educational games on social issues in the frame of non-formal learning; - To test created games and analyze their usability in the context of youth work; - To empower youth workers/youth leaders to use simulation and roleplay games while working with youth. - To create a game compilation booklet as on-line resource to share amongst other youth workers; With the training course we are seeking to develop also members of our organizations, which would lead to the overall raise of the capacity of the organization in the field. Through the use of educational games we are seeking to raise the overall motivation and active participation of youngsters in the communities. The importance of the training course ar various levels: need of members of NGO's to be empowered and get experience in game design & experience in using educational games as a tool for addressing social topics; need of partner organizations to have more experienced & empowered members; youth work’s need to provide new up to date approaches & methods. The training is linked to the overall aim of Erasmus+ KA1 to foster quality improvements in youth work through developing educational material and making it available. The training is designed to equip participants with tools that can be used in daily work with young people and the learning outcomes of this training programme are foreseen to be applied in the youth field through the use of methods, sharing the approach & project results.

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