The project is implemented by two partners: V.I.A.C. - Institute for Youth Support and Development, Slovakia and Cyrilometodejské gymnázium, základní škola a materská škola, Czech Republic. It follows up the results of the LarXperience project and aims to develop them further in the field of forming attitudes of young people, especially in strengthening attitudes of solidarity and receptivity and in building self-esteem, because our work has shown that these are important attitudes. The main objective of this project is to strengthen the solidarity attitudes of young people and build their self-esteem in the environment of non-formal and formal education through long-term programs using experiential education. Specific objectives of the project: - Support the strengthening of young people's attitudes through long-term continuous work with a concrete experience of larp play, as well as their motivation to participate in the program. - Promote the integration of formal and non-formal education and thus increase its impact on young people. - Increase the impact of the activities of youth organizations and schools in forming young people's attitudes. - Further develop larps as an educational tool. - Support youth workers and teachers in building attitudes and implementing long-term programs based on setting their own educational goals. In the first phase of the project, we will focus primarily on the design of 4 educational programs that will develop the attitudes of young people in non-formal and formal education. The programs will focus on the following topics: 1. Solidarity and receptivity - 2 programs. The aim of these two programs will be to strengthen young people's co-responsibility for the environment in which they live, to increase their sensitivity and sensitivity to the differences of others, to strengthen inclusive behavior and to build an attitude of service for the common good. 2. Building your own self-worth - 2 programs. The aim of these two programs will be to strengthen the young person's positive view of himself, the ability to appreciate himself and see good in himself and in others, the ability to cope without failure and prevent escape from pain and difficult situations into addictive substances that lead to even greater destruction of self-worth and the value of self-relationships. Within both areas, each program will be designed to be feasible within half of the school year, which means that the two themes will put together an annual program. In the first step, we will create two larps. One of these larps will be on the topic of solidarity and the other on the topic of building one's own self-worth. Beside it we will develop two additional tools. The first tool will be a gamified application that will support the implementation of these long-term programs and increase the motivation of young people, as well as promote a peer approach. The application will basically be a game, the participants involved in the program will be divided into groups. The application will work on such principles that it can be used for long-term work with young people on a given topic in formal and non-formal education. At the same time, we will create other questionnaires for measuring attitudes in the topics of solidarity and receptivity and building our own self-worth, which we currently lack. 1 questionnaire will be created for each program, which will be used before and after the program to compare the differences. There will also be a diary to record your progress. We will then test the created programs, application and questionnaires for measuring attitudes on groups of young people in formal and non-formal education. Mobility for youth workers and teachers on the topic of attitude-building through larps will also be a necessary part. This will train another group of multipliers, who will then present these programs in their schools and organizations. At the same time, we want to hold two separate workshops in each participating country as part of the dissemination. The first will be to introduce larps as a method of forming attitudes. The second workshop will be intended for representatives of children's homes and low-threshold centers, because it is for them that programs have great potential in non-formal education. At the end of the project, we will hold a conference on larp attitude building in each participating country to raise the awareness of other youth workers and teachers about this method and at the same time provide them with ready-made programs that they can implement directly with young people.
The main objective of this project was to strengthen young people's attitudes of solidarity and build their self-esteem in both non-formal and formal learning environments through long-term programmes using experiential learning. Sub-objectives of the project: - To support the consolidation of young people's attitudes through long-term continuous work with a concrete experience, generated by a larp game, as well as their motivation to persist in the programme. - To promote the linking of formal and non-formal education and thus increase its impact on young people. - Increase the impact of youth organisations' and schools' activities in shaping young people's attitudes. - Further develop larps as an educational tool.
In 08/2020 we completed the LarXperience strategic partnership, which aimed to shape young people's attitudes through the use of larps as an educational method, especially in the area of tolerance of differences and in the area of decision-making and bearing the consequences of their decisions. Our experience from this project has shown us that the process of attitude building is really about long-term intensive work and it is not enough to have just one experience, but it needs to be consolidated in the long term. Therefore, our intention in this project was to build on the results of the LarXperience project and develop them into the field of long-term attitude building for young people, especially in the area of strengthening attitudes of solidarity and sensitivity and in the area of building one's own self-esteem. We built on these needs, which were influenced by the coronavirus pandemic: Self-esteem: current young people have very low self-esteem and cannot accept themselves. Young people with low self-esteem are constantly faced with the question of what their self-worth is and whether they are worthy of being loved. Low self-worth promotes anxiety, and anxiety causes a lowering of self-worth with the coming fear.