Places: 3 participants
Venue: Barcelona (Spain)
Hosting organization: La Vibria
Project Dates: 8-14th October 2021
Travel Budget: 360 euros
Deadline to send application form: 13th September 2021
An international training course that aims to offer tools, context and space to discover, create and explore educational games that support job search and soft skills development.
Objectives
- To exchange practices and methods on soft skills development and job search;
- To provide a space to design and try innovative educational games focused on job search;
- To reflect on the topic of youth employment, share different realities and needs in order to find common interests and challenges;
- Letting participants to try, explore and evaluate the 6 games that have been developed by the coordinating partners of this project;
- To qualify participants with new skills, knowledge and attitudes in the field of youth labor counseling and gamification;
- To empower participants to work in collaboration with the coordinators of the project to contribute to the local implementation of the designed games in each country.
Participant’s profile
Previous experience with international programmes or game-based learning is NOT required, but participants must be in a position of daily work with children and/or youngsters (youth workers, counselors, mentors, educators, teachers and people working to support youngsters with their job search) and will be highly motivated to engage in future actions connected to educational games together with their sending organizations.
Participants are expected to have a good level of English that will allow smooth communication and be willing and committed to actively participate in ALL sessions. Besides, participants should commit to keep to the deadlines, carry out the preparatory tasks asked for by the organizers and be willing to follow‐up on the training in co‐operation with their sending organisation (implementation a dissemination events after the TC in collaboration with Shokkin Group will be a must).
Application and deadline
If you would like to participate in this project, please read the infopack thoroughly and send your filled application form to before 13th of September 2021.