Places: 3 participants
Venue: Turku (Finland)
Hosting organization: Sondip
Travel reimbursement: 180 euros/participant
Project Dates: 08-14 October 2019
Deadline to send application form: 20 July 2019
Description
The training is designed to equip participants with knowledge and skills of need assessment and learning design tools as well as to empower participants to take out of the box approach in youth work through using board games in particular. Participants are foreseen to increase the capacity of own organizations, bring innovative approaches and make use of the gained learning in their daily life with young people as well as contribute with spreading the created materials in their work network.
“Board Builders” will be an international Erasmus+ Training Course organized by Sondip. The main activity of the project will take place in Turku (Finland) during the period 8th-14th October 2019, including participants from Estonia, Finland, Poland, Romania, Armenia, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine.
The project aims to introduce board games as a tool for involving young people into youth organizations and initiate a dialogue with them through training youth workers to develop table-top games with educational value.
Participant’s profile:
The training course’s target group consists of youth workers, youth leaders, youth trainers and educators and/or youth work students that work with young people in their daily work life or frequent voluntary activities, especially with hard to reach young people and those representing minority groups. Participants should have specific interest to discover innovative approach in youth work, be ready to experiment and commit to working on creating a board game and it’s later development and dissemination. Participants should have at least good command of verbal & written English and be available for the whole project time (preparation, main activity, material development, dissemination, evaluation). Knowledge of non-formal learning and youth related topics will be beneficial for a productive process and enhanced experience sharing.
Application and deadline
If you would like to participate in this project, please read the infopack thoroughly and send your filled application form before 20th July 2019 to olalla@shokkin.org.