• Participation fee: there is no participation fee!
• Accommodation and food: the project will be held at the International Scout Center in Rustavi, Georgia. You will be accommodated in rooms with 3 – 4 beds, which you will be sharing with participants of the same gender, however, mixed with participants from other nationalities who are also participating in the training. All meals will be provided.
• Travel reimbursement: the travel costs will be reimbursed up to the determined limit. Any amounts beyond these limits should be afforded by the participants themselves.

Limits of travel costs:

France – 530 €
Estonia – 360 €
Finland – 360 €
Moldova – 275 €
Armenia – 110 €
Georgia – 20 €

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.

Infopack: Youth Workers Play Ground-Final