Critical Escape: educational escape rooms for young people Erasmus Project

Project Title

Critical Escape: educational escape rooms for young people

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for youth

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Home and justice affairs (human rights & rule of law); Creativity and culture; Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

Project Summary

The transnational youth initiative Critical Escape: educational escape rooms for young people was developed and led by young people and organizations from Estonia & Sweden during the period of 01.08.2018 to 31.12.2019 and engaged young people to design and create educational escape rooms that were accessible for young people with fewer opportunities in the regions/countries where the youth initiative takes place.
The project aim was to empower young people from various backgrounds to develop critical thinking and raise the level of their involvement in community life through participating in educational escape rooms created and implemented by young people. During the project, 15 young people from Estonia and 10 people from Sweden created 5 portable educational escape rooms on topics of mental health, diabetes, tobacco use, communication and drugs addiction among youngsters in Estonia which were implemented in different schools, youth centers, public events in Estonia and Sweden and reached up to 350 people.
The coordinating team of the project consisted of 5 people (Anna 28, Anna 23, Jegor 28, Maria 26, and Julia 18) – active members of the NGO Shokkin Group. The group of creators was gathered after the open introduction event and via online call and consisted of 15 young people from 14 to 30 years old. The main target group was youngsters from different areas of Estonia and Sweden. As a tangible result of the project, participants created toolboxes for each room, which are available for everyone online on a website of Shokkin Group Estonia (et.shokkin.org) and shared in social media of partners and personal social media of participants and 5 physical portable escape rooms. During the long-term youth initiative participants met with social worker and discussed different social problems, that are relevant for young people in our areas, visited escape room companies and met with escape-room game masters to learn about escape-room development, participated in public events, open test-events, had training and workshops on learning design, had brainstorm meetings, also visited tobacco prevention organization, organization working with mental health and NGO working with NEETs.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 23537,58 Eur

Project Coordinator

MITTETULUNDUSUHING SHOKKIN GROUP & Country: EE

Project Partners

• Awesome People