Places: 3 participants (+18)
Venue: Brussels (Belgium)
Hosting organization: Swira
Project Dates: 26th October-4th November 2018
(including travel days)
Travel Budget: 275 euros/participant
Deadline to send application form: 15th September 2018
Description
As youth workers, we are constantly creating learning opportunities for the young people we work with. A very powerful tool to do this is playing games. Games can address a whole variety of topics in a very accessible way. Whether it’s global warming, poverty, leadership skills or conflict resolution: a game can help us to actively process new and complex information. Especially when working with young people, playing games is a great way of connecting with them and stimulating them to learn new things.
The training course Play Station, (P.S.) will be an 8-days training course that will bring together 31 youth leaders and youth workers from 9 countries around the EU and its neighboring regions, to train them in the field of gamification strategies in youth work and using these methodologies/approaches into their daily work with young people.
Objectives:
- To raise an awareness about an importance of gaming and gamification in an educational context and introduce it as an efficient tool while working with young people.
- To raise youth workers’ competences in the field of long-termly engaging young people in their communities into their regular activities by using gamification techniques.
- To create a framework for developing educational games through experiential approach towards the learning, meaning that participants will have a chance during the P.S. to develop and practice educational games and internalize the learning through the deep reflection process.)
Participant’s profile:
This training course is targeted at youth workers & youth leaders aged 18+ (active members of organizations, communities who work with young people & are involved in activities carried out by sending organizations). Ideally, participants should be in a position of daily working with youngsters, either voluntarily or professionally. Preferably with some experience in youth work, but more important: a big desire to learn about and develop games as a non-formal educational tool.
Participants should have good command of English language, and be willing and committed to work through the whole main activity (about 8 hours per day).
Participants should be motivated to carry out any preparatory task asked for by the organisers, and be willing to follow‐up on the training course in co‐operation with their sending organisation (implementation of a dissemination event after the TC in collaboration with Shokkin Group will be a must). It is crucial that participants are interested and open to learn and later implement new learning tools and methods.
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 September to olalla@shokkin.org.