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Roleplaying for Uniting Youth Communities

2020-1-IS01-KA105-0657842020Youth mobilityfinalizedGood practice
Countries: IS|FI|CZ|EL|RO|DE|NL|PL · Grant: €31,525
Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)Creativity and cultureEU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy

Objectives

The project "Roleplaying for Uniting Youth Communities" was a youth exchange which used an innovative learning approach that was developed by a group of young people active in the field of youth work. The focus was on using role-playing to create a learning environment for young people to train a variety of skills and to focus on intercultural learning. The participants lived together for a week. They were divided into smaller mixed teams in which they created role-playing adventures together. We created a number of lessons in which we taught game theory, story structure, world building and other topics that are relevant for creating role-playing adventures. We put a special focus on creating societies and introducing conflicts since that gave the participants the opportunity to discuss the topics in a way that related to their own experiences. We used guided reflection sessions and discussions about the results to critically examine the experiences the youths made. We also compared the stories with real world situations and discussed them. Among the learning goals were developing teamwork, cooperation, and friendship in an international setting, improving soft skills and social competences, acquiring cultural understanding, raising awareness of other values and beliefs, and improving language and communication skills. Our big learning goal defined for this event was getting youths more active in shaping the society they live in by first understanding what it means to make responsible decisions in order to accommodate a variety of values and beliefs. We were focussing on international cooperation and we tried to combat extremism because nowadays too many people have the idea that becoming active in society means trying to push your own values and beliefs through regardless of others.

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