Places: 3 participants
Venue: Rustavi (Georgia)
Hosting organization: Shokkin Group Norge & DRONI
Project Dates: 1st-8th November 2021
Deadline to send application form: 18th September 2021
Description
Escape games involve a team of people working together in order to fulfill challenging mental, logical, at times physical tasks. Such games are engaging, thrilling and produce emotions, while also build empathy to the characters, develop critical thinking, increase team spirit and give space for fruitful debriefing process and follow-up knowledge transfer, which makes it productive while reaching out to youth at risk.
“Escape Radicalization 2.0” has been designed to raise awareness and youth workers’ understanding of the vulnerability and triggering factors leading to radicalization of young people and equip youth workers with engaging methodology (educational escape games) to tackle the topic.
“Escape Radicalization 2.0” will enable youth workers to strengthen preventative measures against radicalization of young people throught e use of educational escape games.
More specifically, the training aims to:
- To foster mutual understanding of the process of radicalization, reasons and preventative measures;
- To explore escape game methodology, which is seen as an engaging and creative way of storytelling, as an educational approach in youth work;
- To equip participants with tools for developing educational escape games;
- To experiment with applying innovative methodology to the topic of radicalization and create at least three educational escape games and test them with the local community;
- To raise awareness of young people about the process of radicalization and its threats through inviting them to participate in educational escape rooms;
- To empower youth workers/leaders to use escape games while working with hard to reach youth.
Participant’s profile
Ideal participants are envisioned to be full members of the partner organization or it’s local partner institution (youth center, school, social center), being certified youth workers or passionate youth leaders who work on a frequent basis with at-risk youth (young people from low-income families/ dysfunctional families, young migrants/minority representatives/refugees, school dropouts).
They should be interested in raising their level of competences in the topic of radicalization, being ready to share their own experiences, being motivated to experiment with innovative methodology and ready to work hard for delivering a physical outcome.
Participants should be at least 18 years old, have good level of English, and be willing and committed to work hard and actively participate in ALL sessions of the programme. 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 course via active youth work, ideally in co‐operation with their sending organisation.
Application and deadline
If you would like to participate in this project, please read the infopack thoroughly and fill in the application form before 18th September 2021.