Shokkin Group International members and partners are working on the long-term project “Game On: Developing Educational Board Games for Young Entrepreneurs”, an Erasmus+ strategic partnership that explores the potential of board games in entrepreneurship education. The project, which involves Estonia, Greece, Spain and Sweden, started with a kick-off meeting in March 2019 in Pontevedra (Spain).
During a 3-day event, coordinators of each country agreed on responsibility division, detailed timelines and plans. After that partners kicked off the research stage where each organization had to perform a desk research and two focus groups on the topics of entrepreneurship and the use of games in education in all the participating countries. These results were shared in July when Shokkin Group International hosted the second transnational project meeting in Tallinn.
During a 4-day meeting in Tallinn there was a lot of work to do for the coordinators: The group discussed the use of game based learning in schools and universities based on the focus group results and experience working in the field; they discovered and shared educational games produced nationally and international examples of educational board games on the topic of entrepreneurship as well as shared tools for game and learning design; they differentiated and analyzed target groups for final products; and of course explored game mechanics via playing various successful educational and leisure board games for inspiration.
At the end of the meeting, coordinators divided topics on which the games will be created and made a detail plan for work until November 2019, when they will meet in Örebro (Sweden) and present game prototypes. The strategic partnership was formed to develop four educational board games for young people and a board game development manual for youth workers as well as to train educators and youth workers on how to use educational games in their day-to-day work with young people.
In Shokkin Group International we are excited to be part of this project and have a chance to develop more innovative materials for educators and youth workers internationally.
Stay tuned and #stayshokkin.
