Educating active citizenship trough Simulation Games

Simulation activities and role games are strong tools for educating active citizenship among youth. These tools are built on the experiential learning, learning by doing approaches that help participants to live through the game and get real experience. The method can be used for different educational aims. Through this method the youth acquire may new skills and competences.
The participants of the TC will learn about the method of the role-playing simulation games: ways of using the method, adptation of different simulation games and role-playing games to certain leaning purposes, and development of simulation activities based on the local realities. The project will address the following issues: lack of new methods which will be more interesting for young people to participate in, especially when it comes to youth from deprived urban area; low level of active participantion of youth from deprived urban areas in local communities.
Aims and objectives of the training: to provide youth workers and youth leaders with the tools of involving youth to active participation in the local communities; to foster the potential of youth in active participation in the local level and influence the local youth policy; to introduce and practice the role-playing and simulation games method (structure, specifications, usage, adaptation for the certain needs, creation of the games); to teach participants how to use this method for teaching young people to be active citizens on the local level; to create new role-playing games and simulation activities based on the participants’ realities, which will be used in the future for teaching young people to be active citizens and to influence the decision-making processes on the local level.
The participants of the trainig course will be youth workers and youth leaders who work with youth from deprived urban areas.
The methodology of the training course will be built on non-formal educaiton methods, intercultural learning, experiencial and participatory approaches. The participants will work together for elaborating individual and common ideas of applying received knowledge and skills in their practices and setting cooperation for future. The event will consider the experience of all participants of the training. The event will use methods of non-formal learning and participant orientated approaches. The programme will be conducted using interactive and participative methods (working groups, interactive lectures, simulation games, etc.).