Places: 2 participants
Venue: Kose-Uuemõisa (Estonia)
Hosting organization: Shokkin Group Estonia
Project Dates: 10th-18th September 2019
Deadline to send application form: 15th July 2019

Description

“Eduboards” will be an international Erasmus+ training course organized by Shokkin Group Estonia. The main activity of the project will take place in Kose-Uuemõisa (Estonia) during the period 10th-18th September 2019, including participants from Estonia, Germany, Greece, Portugal, Spain, Czech Republic, Norway, Romania and Croatia.

The project sets next objectives:

  • To discuss youth trends in participants countries and extract current learning needs from participant’s working experience with youth;
  • To introduce game-based learning for youth workers/youth leaders to incorporate in own work;
  • To explore board games and their possible adaptation as educational tools;
  • To introduce board games as a tool for involvement of young people and explore successful examples of the use of board games in youth work;
  • To equip participants with methods for idea development and learning design that is transferable to socially relevant topics.

The training aims to promote the use of game-based learning methods in youth work and explore application of educational board games through training youth workers to assess learning needs of young people, adapt game-based learning methods and develop table-top games in correspondence with them.

Participant’s profile:

The training course is designed for: Youth workers, youth leaders, educators, trainers, teachers, NGO volunteers and members. We are looking for people involved in youth work or in the education field on a weekly basis. Participants do not need any previous experience with board games and game-based learning. We expect participants to have motivation to learn about game-based learning and be willing to create board games for young people.

Participants need to be official residents of the country they are coming from, be over 18 years of age and have at least an intermediate level of English. Participants are expected to participate fully in the program and commit to the dissemination activities.

Application and deadline

If you would like to participate in this project, please read the infopack thoroughly and send your filled application form before 15th July 2019 to olalla@shokkin.org.

For more information

Infopack Eduboards