Gaming for Learning!

The seminar will provide competences on educational and informational programmes for youth employability including on entrepreneurship education. Both theoretical and practical aspects will be addressed to increase conceptual understanding, skills and know-how on requirements for successful youth employability programmes on local level.

• Theoretical understanding of youth employability and entrepreneurial soft skill development enhanced among participants
• Practical approaches for implementing youth employability programmes enhanced among participants
• Transnational links between partners and participants enhanced

This project is about learning very interactive gaming methodologies that are used in youth work, therefore most of the training sessions are used for exploring specific games and debriefing the learning processes and gaming mechanisms. In this sense, this is not a “traditional” training programme, as the participants will spend the major part of the training discovering these games by playing them. The training focuses more on
de-constructing mechanisms of educative games and learning how to facilitate an aware learning process through debriefing with youth.

The training uses gaming methodological approaches for learning (or fostering learning of others), this is central to the project. As well the training enhances social and learning to learn competences, as it involves a wide range of individuals. It fosters a sense of solidarity and empathy, inter-personal communication and mutual understanding among others.