The Key Action 1 Programme
Cagilari, Italy
Mobility of youth workers: 18th – 24th August, 2020

APPLICATIONS ACCEPTED TILL  July 14th, 2020 - 23.59!

This project is a mobility of youth workers under the Key Action 1 Programme and it would like to encourage the exchange and innovation of established best practices between youth workers on the topic of gamification. The aim of the project is to bring new perspectives from different European regions for improving the tools used in youth non-formal education based on the youth target demographic.
For one week, the project will foster communication between the participants on improving the gamification based tools they use when working with youth. Everyone will receive feedback on the implementation of their gamification tools from other European countries working with a specific demographic of youth.

Objectives of the project:
- To create an environment for discussing game-based learning
- To stimulate the innovation of currently established game-based tools
- To encourage the expansion of demographic outreach from gamification
tools
- To amplify the effectiveness of game based learning tools by youth
educators
- To highlight the realities of youth persons involved in gamification
- To discuss the utility of gamification for creating an open-dialogue setting activities within the implementation of the project.

Participant profile:
The project will involve 24 participants (2 participants from each country) from ten different countries: Italy, The Republic of North Macedonia, Slovakia, Hungary, Finland, Latvia, Germany, France, Serbia and Romania.. Additionally, Italy and The Republic of North Macedonia will provide one project facilitator each.
Youth workers that use gamification tools, are eager to receive and provide constructive feedback for their tools and modify them to engage the community of youth involved with routinely playing games in their everyday lives.
Gender balance of participants must be maintained.

Selection Process: The selection of participants will be done through cooperation of the hosting and sending organizations according to the participant profiles in the application form. The deadline to apply is at the end of July 10th, 2020. The selection will be finalized by the end of July 14th, 2020.

Accommodation- The activities and accommodation will take place in Hostel Marina Participants will be accommodated in quadruplet rooms (2 persons) according to Covid-19 measures, divided by gender

Food-Participants will have guaranteed dishes (breakfast, lunch, dinner) and two coffee breaks per day (mid-morning and mid-evening)
Please note that the breakfast is sweet and all dishes will reflect Sardinian cuisine in all caterings around the city center
The Hostel has access to Wifi, there are also a lot of bars, cafes and restaurants in the area with accessible Wifi

Financial procedure for travel reimbursement:
All the amounts foreseen by the project were calculated according to the official address of each country:
Latvia-360€ per person

The Italian National Agency is not accepting any stopover in any city around Europe or Italy. In case you would like to book a ticket to arrive before the project or stay more time after the project, it has to be agreed with the hosting organization.