“Game YOU is a European-wide cooperation project between partners from a wide range of sectors and from four different countries. The consortium is created with the aim of contributing to youth employment through E-games and e-sports, as well as training professionals within these sectors. Taking advantage of the success of video games among young people, it aims to create a series of innovative resources that will enable young people to better orient themselves towards their professional and employment future while supporting educators and professionals working with this group.
Today’s youth live in a context where there are thousands of stimuli, diverse opportunities and possible paths. It is understandable that many young people feel lost about their professional future – we all need guidance and advice from people who have been there before!
Therefore, the main objective of the project is that the materials to be created will serve as a guide for the identification of professional skills and will help young people to understand what kind of competences are needed in different fields of work. This will be possible thanks to a handbook for professionals, workshops based on non-formal education towards employability and an interactive tool for young people that will allow them to identify their potential in the world of employment and how to improve it thanks to video games.
This will create a synergy between the ludic, didactic and pedagogic characteristics of video games and, at the same time, will refute the existing demonisation of video games as a “waste of time”.
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Dates: 01/01/2022 al 01/01/2024
Partner entities:
- Increase the participation of young people in employment programmes.
- To promote employment opportunities for young people, especially for groups at risk of exclusion.
- To get young people to use the project materials to recognise their strengths and skills in relation to different job opportunities.
- To offer tools that enable young people to make a self-assessment of their skills in a comfortable environment.
- To reduce the gap between the types of skills promoted by the formal education system and those actually demanded by the labour market.
- Promote the recognition of video games as a professional alternative and encourage, in the long term, the implementation of training and education programmes that this sector could demand thanks to the training of professionals in this sector.
- Transnational online coordination meetings (January and February 2022).
- Initial research and conceptualisation on E-gaming as a tool for employment guidance (March to June 2022).
- Development of the first material – A handbook on youth employment guidance through video games for educators (March to October 2022).
- Second transnational face-to-face meeting in Spain (October 2022)
- Planning and development of the second material – A gamified self-assessment platform on youth employment guidance (March 2022-January 2023)
- First transnational training course in Slovenia (January 2023)
- Testing phase of the created materials (January – July 2023)
- Third transnational meeting in Italy (April 2023)
- Revision and improvement of the materials created (July to November 2023).
- Transnational online event for the exchange of views and practices among potential users of the materials (July 2023).
- Project dissemination events in partner countries (November and December 2023).
- Project review and finalisation (August to December 2023).
