Places: 3 participants (aged 18-30)
Venue: Dingli Youth Activity Centre (Malta)
Hosting organization: Malta UNESCO Youth Association (MUYA)
Project Dates: 27th September – 4th October 2018 (including travel days)
Travel Budget: 360 euros
Deadline to send application form: 23th July 2018
Description
The current situation in Europe is deterring in relation to migration waves, long-lasting youth unemployment, economic struggle, terror attacks, media and geo-political speculation and is in turn generating anti-European views. The latter is in turn generating more heated debates and concerns in society which are leading for prejudice to prosper.
For this reason, the participating network of organizations has aims to give youth workers & youth leaders tools, frameworks and space to create and practice facilitation of educational games that address social issues and can be applied in their environments.
The project’s methodology will be based on the principles of non-formal education. During the training course, participants will have the opportunity to explore multimedia presentations, interviews, plenary discussions, open space technology, creative workshops, role plays, presentations of good practices and more. During the training course participants will also be provided with sufficient space and support to exchange experience, present their organisations and plan future projects.
Objectives
- To discuss social issues that influence youth in the countries that partner in the project;
- To discuss the idea of a game as an educational tool, while learning various examples;
- To give participants tools for mapping and identifying learning needs of their target group;
- To equip participants with tools for educational and experiential game design;
- To create a set of educational games on social issues in the frame of non-formal learning.
Participant’s profile
“Game Zone: Developing an inclusive society through games” will include 30 youth workers and youth leaders from 9 countries including Malta, Estonia, Czech Republic, Slovenia, Germany, Poland, Kosovo, Ukraine and Lithuania.
Participants will not be required to have any sort of previous experience with international programmes, but they must be in a position of daily work with children and/or youngsters (youth leader/youth worker) and will be highly motivated to engage in future actions connected to educational games and social topics 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 youth exchange in co‐operation with their sending organisation (implementation of a dissemination event 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 olalla@shokkin.org with the subject “Game Zone” before 23th July 2018.