Power of Games

Aims & objectives

The overall aim and specific objectives of the project:
Explore Educational Games as a powerful methodology with broad potential from the experiential, pedagogical, and social point of view, to youth workers who work with young people at risk of social exclusion.
Provide youth workers with practical skills in designing, implementing, and facilitating Educational Games adapted to their work with young people at risk of social exclusion aiming.
Create a high-quality educational game on social inclusion in the frame of non-formal education.
Main contents and activities of the project:
“improve the competencies linked to the professional profile” of youth workers by providing innovative tools for designing better educational games. This goal will promote a “better quality of their work and activities in favor of students, trainees, young people, and volunteers”.

Target group & international/intercultural composition of the group & team

The project was hosted by Euro-Mediterranean Music Academy for Peace, and implemented in cooperation withArabisch Deutsches Center für Dialog - WASLA
ROSI France
ASOCIATIA PSIHOLOGILOR PROFESIONISTI DIN ROMANIA
Young Sustainable Impact, Tunisia Tiflet Young Leaders Network, Morocco
Oyoun Masr Association for Cultural and Social Development, OMA Egypt
Hayya Bina, Lebanon. The participation was supported by THE LEBANESE ASSOCIATION FOR AN INCLUSIVE
CITIZENSHIP

Altogether, 23 people from Egypt, France, Germany, Italy, Lebanon, Morocco, Romania, and Tunisia took part in the
project.

Training methods used & main activities

-Role plays
-End of training Tool simulation
-Peer teaching (group discussions)
-Coaching sessions

Outcomes of the activity

“Educational Games For Social Inclusion” compilation booklet, Inclusive Educational Games created and tested by the participants, and shared with organizations and youth workers working for the empowerment, and social inclusion of youth at risk of facing social exclusion.

Your tasks and responsibilities within the team

-Prepared and delivered sessions on Experiential learning, game architecture, and game creation.
-Facilitated the welcome on board session, training handbook creation activity, and team building exercises.

I worked on this training for ALL days days as a full time trainer.