Let's Gamify

Games are amazing! They are part of our lives, every day, without even realizing it! It was proven that by games, everyone learns much faster, easier and enjoyable. This is why for 2 weeks we will explore the gamification process together with 24 artists, educators, gamers from France, Italy, Poland and Bulgaria. Practical information: Quick info: * Dates: 12-25 June 2018 * Location: Brivezac, France * Who: we are looking for activists, educators, youth workers, writers and visual artists – artivists! * Where from: France, Italy, Poland and Bulgaria (if you live somewhere else, still apply – we’re flexible) * Application deadline: 12 February 2018 * Results: not later than 20 February 2018 * The project is co-founded by Erasmus+ * Food, travel costs and accommodation are covered. * Travel reimbursement up to the following amounts: travelling from France – 180 euro, from Italy, Bulgaria and Poland – 275 euro * There is a 50 EUR participation fee, taken from the travel reimbursement (which also grants you with a Nomadways annual membership). About the project: Gamification is the process of using game mechanics and game thinking in non-gaming contexts to engage users and to solve problems. Another way to explain it is that gamification consists on making daily tasks more enjoyable by introducing gaming elements. In nowadays generation gamification can become an useful tactic to encourage specific attitudes, and increase motivation and engagement. Though commonly found in marketing strategies, it is now started being implemented in some educational programs as well, facilitating learning experience and influencing behaviours of gamers. If structured well, a gamification system utilises the psychic drivers that people want to experience, creating novel ways of forming and extending relationships and encouraging long-term engagement and loyalty. That is to say, a successful system leverages natural human instinct to form a community, to achieve and to feel recognised and rewarded in our daily lives. “Let’s GAMIFY” will be focused on developing specific competencies in designing educational games for youth workers, facilitators, educators and trainers, on topics related to social exclusion and global challenges who believe games are an efficient tool to increase the awareness, information and education level among young people at risk.