PLAY: Platform for Linking Active Youth Erasmus Project

Project Title

PLAY: Platform for Linking Active Youth

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 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy) ; Inclusion – equity; Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills

Project Summary

PLAY – PLatform for Linking Young People is a 20 month long strategic partnership project initiated by young people which aims The aim of the project is to provide a platform for youth leaders to use gamification and game pedagogy in their professional lives and to support young people in developing games and through their actions to foster the inclusion in European societies through straightened competences of groups of young people.

With the development of this project idea we give the opportunity to young people to take an initiative, to implement their own ideas and turn them into actions in a creative and exciting way. With the growing visual and digital input and accelerated development in Europe, young people need more creative, eventful and more sensory learning opportunities where they can be not only the “users” of the educational input, but also shapers, creators and innovators who form their own learning path and the learning paths of their peers.

Taking under consideration the needs of our target group, the ideas and initiative of young people as well as the growing problems in Europe creating a society where social inclusion does not appear as an important value, we created the PLAY! project to provide a creative, innovative solution to these issues.

The activities of the project were created following these objectives:
– to develop opportunities for youth leaders to use games as educational tools
– to use game pedagogy techniques to develop the skills and competences of disadvantaged young people
– to engage and empower young people to become and active shaper of their communities
– to strengthen young people’s sense of initiative, entrepreneurship and volunteering;
– to develop skills and competences of young people about gamification and how to put their ideas into action to create an innovative tool of non-formal education;
– to create games, educational tools to promote and increase social inclusion in Europe;
– to promote youth- and learner centered approach in non-formal education.

The project provides the opportunity for youth leaders to learn more about game development and game pedagogy. Young leaders participating in this project will provide programmes for disadvantaged youth groups using playing and game development as tools for their development.

Implementing this project will not only result on the strong effect of the participating young people and on the partner organisations realizing it but also on youth work in general.

All partner organisations and its young people are motivated to take part in this project – they will be involved in different ways to contribute to fulfill the aims and objectives, but they will all benefit the same from the results. The main aim of the project is to start using game pedagogy as a skill development tool in youth work. Through straightening competences of groups of young people by allowing them to put their ideas into action and create and use innovative educational tools for the youth we will be able to reach out to more disadvantaged youth groups and involve them in our daily work.

During the project we plan to deliver 2 mobility activities in order to develop the skills and competences of young people and youth workers. These capacity building activities are very important considering the results of the project, as these are the events where young people learn about the topic – game pedagogy and game development – and learn how to use gamification techniques. Without these activities the project would stand without a proper basement as the participants could not have the required knowledge to deliver quality educational programmes using games as tools.

With the mobility activities we not only intend to share knowledge but also to motivate the young people to take part in this project. Through working together and getting to know each other they will have to fuel to keep going and succeed.

With this project we seek to improve the level of key competences and skills of young people and youth leaders, such as sense of initiative and entrepreneurship, leadership and facilitation skills in order to improve the quality of their work and the activities they organise, and to reach further into the European dimension of their youth work.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 70161 Eur

Project Coordinator

Tudatos Ifjúságért Alapítvány & Country: HU

Project Partners

• AC Amics de la Biblioteca de la Fonteta
• YAYGIN EGITIM MERKEZI DERNEGI