OBJECTIVES OBJECTIVE #1 - COOPERATION & MOBILITY - (This objective responds to the PRIORITY #1) A. To strengthen the cooperation between the partner organizations that implement larp as an adult educational tool. B. To increase the mobility of game-designers implementing larp as an educational tool on the European level. C. To get the created larp games implemented and organized in all partner countries to increase access to high-quality training opportunities using larp as a method. OBJECTIVE #2 - IMMERSIVE ADULT EDUCATION (PRIORITY #2) A. To create a bundle of educational larp scenarios using Fiume - Rijeka Free City - independent city-state period as historical context. B. Develop a digital manual from these scenarios. The documentation, the scenarios, and the manual will be used as a tool for adult education.. C. Share these outcomes with a wider audience via EPALE and other online forums. OBJECTIVE #3 - ENGAGEMENT & PARTICIPATION (PRIORITY #3) A. To give experience to participants (both designers and players) that demonstrates the importance of active citizenship. B. Promoting European values of personal freedom, human dignity, solidarity, and social responsibility.
Three organizations from three EU countries (Italy, Croatia and Hungary) came together to explore and learn from a sensitive issue in their respective histories: The case of the Free City of Fiume. We applied because we believe that using a historical setting with an adequate amount of creative freedom can enable its elements to provide meaningful tools for reflecting upon contemporary questions. This particular setting provided us with an intriguing entanglement of different cultural, ideological and political elements and belief systems. It was the hundred-year anniversary of the Fiume City State which gave topicality to the subject in the manner of “looking back for seeing further” This means that while it forms a tool of historical memory, it also acts as a way of addressing current socio-political issues. We used this historical backdrop as an example of how populist politics work and the project can become a tool for sensitization and reflection, for raising political awareness amongst European citizens. The partnership wanted the cooperation of the three organizations for the purpose of the historical connection, similar interests and the exchange of different practices and experiences.