SOCIAWARE: Game Software School for Social Cohesion of Disadvantaged Youth Erasmus Project

Project Title

SOCIAWARE: Game Software School for Social Cohesion of Disadvantaged 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 : Partnerships for Creativity

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy) ; ICT – new technologies – digital competences; Access for disadvantaged

Project Summary

Project implementation aims to develop the game software ecosystem in Europe and to bring in new software developers for the need of qualified personnel employment in the software industry. With the implementation of this project, contribution will be made to the goal of “Increasing Youth Employment”, which is at the center of the EU’s employment policy in the context of the European H2020 growth and employment strategy. Supporting young people is one of the leading objectives of the youth work and European H2020 strategy. Experienced young people will have an advantage against possible risks they will encounter in the software industry. In addition, it is aimed to enable young people to market and grow both themselves and the games they develop by increasing their qualifications.

It is planned to implement 5 main activities within the scope of the project. The first of these activities, which will be implemented in Turkey “Script and Story Editing Training”, the second in France “Animation and Cinematography Training”, the third in Portugal “Publishing and Software Training”, the fourth in the UK “Technical and Software Testing Programming Training “and finally the fifth one will be carried out in Germany as” Graphic Design and Modeling Training”.

Within the scope of these training activities; Participants will be provided with a total of 184 hours of training from professionals of their field, including 40 hours of marketing, 40 hours of programming, 16 hours of C#, 32 hours of Publishing, 40 hours of product design, 16 hours of QA (Quality).

In order to increase the effectiveness of the project activities, monthly “Evaluation Meetings” will be held within the countries, and information will be shared with international partners about the project workflow in line with the demands of the participants. In addition to this, with the “Transnational Progress Meetings”, where all partners will participate, the working conditions of the partners will be examined and the success of the project will be increased by providing quick solutions to possible risks.

Two important outputs are expected to be accomplished as a result of the project. First of all, it will be ensured that experienced young software developers are introduced to the game software ecosystem in Europe, making international collaborations and helping young software developers who will receive training from professionals in their field to benefit from new employment opportunities.

Secondly, the experiences of young people who do not participate in employment by benefiting from the project but who have established game development startups will be shared on the project website, and they will be provided as an example role model in the emergence of new young talents. Thus, young software developers will have the opportunity to measure and evaluate their game software ideas by merging with other technology companies in the game software ecosystem. In this way, the project will provide access to qualified employment in the EU region as well as qualified initiatives.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 180767 Eur

Project Coordinator

TÜRKİYE GENÇLİK VE EĞİTİME HİZMET VAKFI & Country: TR

Project Partners

• MUNICIPIO DE LOUSADA
• ISTANBUL SABAHATTIN ZAIM UNIVERSITY
• Kartal Anadolu Imam Hatip Lisesi
• Musiad Hessen e.V.
• Mustakil Sanayici ve Isadamlari Dernegi
• COJEP International