TC Your TURN! Games in NFL

Aims & objectives

- Exploring the concept of games and playing as a crucial opportunity for young people to learn
- Identifying the competencies that could be developed through games that are required for
young peoples’ active participation in social life and for employment
- Exchanging the experience on most commonly used types of games in different contexts
- Raising awareness on the principles, values and characteristics of non-formal learning (NFL) and
exploring Experiential Learning cycle as a crucial tool to extract important learning outcomes
from games
- Developing skills on designing, facilitating games and getting high learning outcomes through
good quality debriefing process
- Providing a space to develop further ideas on using the games as an effective learning
opportunity at the local level or through future projects of Erasmus+

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

We were 31 people from 12 organizations from 12 countries: LATVIA, GREECE, RUSSIAN FEDERATION, GERMANY, UKRAINE, ROMANIA, UKRAINE, BULGARIA, ARMENIA, ITALY, POLAND, GEORGIA.

Training methods used & main activities

We used debates, games, simulations, workshops, study visits... The main topic was games for NFL, so GAMES were mainly present in the TC

Outcomes of the activity

- New games developed by the participants
- New networking partnerships among the organizations
- Better understanding of the debriefing process and the power of games as learning tools
- Better understanding of the E+ programme

Your tasks and responsibilities within the team

I have been full-time trainer, sharing responsibilities with Ieva Grundsteine and it has been a very pleasant activity.

I worked on this training for 7 days as a full time trainer.