GO PLAY

About the project:

The training will equip youth workers, youth trainers and educators with the skills of game design and gamification in order to foster / ensure efficient and engaging educational process addressing current issues such as intercultural and inter-religious dialogue in the work with marginalized groups, gender equality, human rights and developing soft skills of young people from different backgrounds. This training cours is a part of the KA2 projects (Small-scale Partnership).

Project's objectives:

• To share personal experience in using games and reflect critically on examples of educational games;
• To discuss what makes games and gamification process educational, to discover basic elements of games;
• To learn about different player types and their relation to person's nature and basic motivators;
• To learn how how to create an educational game or gamified system;
• To create educational games on social and educational topics;
• To test the created prototypes with other participants, collect feedback and implement it to the results ready for open testing;
• To learn about different player types and their relation to person's nature and motivators;
• To provide opportunities for cooperation and networking.

As a result participants will:

• Gain concrete competences in educational game design;
• Gain experience in different types of games;
• Learn how to make an educational game with concrete learning objectives for the needs of the target groups;
• Create and test game prototypes based on the needs of local youth.

Participants' profile:

Background:  youth workers, trainers, youth leaders and educators who actively work at local / regional / national or international levels.

• Should be 18 years old or over;
• Should be able to communicate in English;
• Should take part in the whole period of the training course;
• Should be ready to promote activities in own community after the training course ends;
• Should be ready to test the developed game in local communities.

Selected participants are in charge of:

• Testing the developed game in local community;
• Dissemination and visibility activities after the project;
• Filling in participants' report.

Application deadline: 3 March 2024
Inform all applicants whether they have been selected to participate or not: 5 March 2024

You can find more information in the attached infopack for partners and paricipants.