Youth Workers' Playground

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 and doing things together is a great way of connecting with them and stimulating them to learn new things.

In this project, we aim to:

• raise awareness about the importance of gaming in education;
• introduce gamification as an efficient tool while working with youth;
• raise youth workers’ competencies in engaging local youth by using gamification;
• develop educational games and internalize the learning through the reflection.

Thereby: 

• introduce participants to different elements of creating high quality educational games;
• develop educational games within the project to be used back home by the participants;
• boost participants’ creativity and joy from the work;
• create a booklet about games and disseminate it to wider groups.

Participants should be:

• Able to communicate in English;
• Able to participate in the whole duration of the activity;
• Working with youth and/or motivated to explore approaches in youth work;
• Ready to create a board game and later develop and disseminate it;
• Ready to support dissemination and visibility activities.

All those eligible for participation and interested in this training should fill in the following application form by 25 August in order to be considered for the selection.