EduGaming
Start date: Dec 15, 2012,
Educational games(used in youth work, communities, workshops, trainings, etc)approaching urgent issues related to social exclusions, poverty, global challenges are making a huge contribution in term of including young people( because they are innovative, attractive, youth use friendly) raising awareness and engaging diverse target groups.The project will be focused on developing specific competencies in educational games designing for youth workers, facilitators, trainers on topics related to social exclusion and global challenges. Beneficiaries will explore deeper different social thematic explore the steps required for developing successful educational games (that could be used in youth projects, communities or training/workshops, schools)and develop concrete games which will be implemented, tested and evaluated during the training itself and later one disseminated and promote among other youth organizations.Main aim of the project is to raise the capacity of youth organization to contribute to a cohesive and active society. Specific objectives :1)To increase the level of knowledge in topics like: environmental, poverty, gender equality, other global issues, social exclusion, human rights, intercultural dialogue, etc2)To develop practical competencies in designing and applying new educational games in youth work 3)To develop pro-active attitudes to approach excluded young people4)To increase the level of creativity, innovation, self confidence and trust in educational games;5)To enable youth workers to act as educational games multipliers in their communities 6)To contribute to a long term change in educational approach in youth field.7)To motivate youth organization to implement and mainstream the motto “think global, act local” , intercultural learning, human rights education in their work; The project will be addressed to 26 people from 12 countries –based on the cooperation of NGOs from(RO,BG,UK,IT,PT,FR,RS,ME,AL,BA,MK,XK) and it will be implemented in Serbia