empowerment

HOW GAMIFICATION CAN HELP INNOVATE ADULT EDUCATION, TRAINING AND EMPOWERMENT
Tap or hover over the pictures for a description of each resource

The paper basically offers guidance for institutions working with hard-to-reach adults to innovate their empowerment or traditional approaches by exploiting the great potentials of gamification The guidance is not presented in the form of a long methodological paper, but in the form of gamified scenarios

Gamification for overcoming dead-end life and work situations – Inspiration ...

A knowledge paper generated from the project practice and capturing the most important emerging knowledge on gamification for inclusion and empowerment targeting a broad European audience of professionals in adult education and gamification

Gamification and serious gaming for inclusion and empowerment of adults ...

A policy paper offering lessons learned and recommendations for policy and funding programming, based on the results of the project. Whereas gamification and serious gaming is beginning to reach the Horizon arena, it has not yet penetrated into for example Erasmus+ or the ESF.

The inclusion potential of gamification in connection with hard-to-reach adults

In this 15 minute video, project partner Oscar Garcia from Cookie Box Barcelona offers an introduction to what gamification is and what the key principles are

What is gamification?

This 13 minute video offers collective reflections on the lessons learned from the gameplay from Icebreaking to Key Witnesses

Concluding thoughts and reflections

Professionals in the field of empowerment of unemployed adults and dedicated unemployed themselves might take the opportunity to deliver gamification services at local, national or European level

Gamification Guidance Services

5 days of gamification experimentation in Sabadell Barcelona (hosted by the Sabadell Chamber of Commerce) produced a wide range of experiences, inspiration and learning. In this paper the participating adult education trainers and unemployed offer small but important comments about the 5 days’ gameplay

Lessons learned from 5 days of gamification inspiration and training ...

In this paper – produced in connection with the 5 days of gameplay in Barcelona 2015 – you will find guidance on how to create and manage gameplay sessions, and you will find detailed descriptions on gameplay taking depressed mentality among unemployed from icebreaking to open community oriented taking action interest

Gamification Mechanics at Work

Using gamification mechanics to change mentality among long-term unemployed is not always unproblematic Gameplay can go deep and challenge people not always comfortable with such activities In this paper project partner and experienced gamificator Oscar Garcia from Cookie Box in Barcelona offers good advice and guidance on how to avoid negative use of gamification Oscar Garcia is available for further knowledge in the field of gamification and ethics

Gamification -respect and ethics

This A3 poster illustrates in few words the steps we must follow to take action in the community with long-term unemployed – but also the typical pitfalls in such engagements

Unemployed taking community action – the poster

This Power Point used in connection with gamification for long-term unemployed illustrates the powerful capacity build model for taking real-life change steps to change dead-end situation The Power Point illustrates each capacity building step and the progression between the steps

Capacity building for taking change action

In this small paper we explain briefly why it is relevant and necessary to learn how to use gamification principles and mechanics to empower long-term unemployed.

Why gamification for long-term unemployed?

This document presents and discusses the challenges connected to gamification mechanics going beyond the controlled situation of gamification for changed mentality in groups or teams, thereby taking gamification mechanics to real-life community taking action to follow-up the mentality change

What is social gamification?

This fictive scenario offers inspiration on how to step-by-step build capacity among long-term unemployed to change their situation and take entrepreneurial action The scenario was used to inspire adult education professionals in the Gamification project

The House of Change

This small and slightly provocative paper was produced to explain that gamification can be linked to the very basic structures in 21st century life, thereby offering a deeper understanding of the potentials of gamification for mentality and life change

The gamification of life

The short paper is created to explain in a very straightforward way what we see as the core ideas in entrepreneurial capacity building and gamification for long-term unemployed

The Juice

A narrative based on the initiatives in the Corviale community in Roma, describing in detail how gamification can take place in communities and through the very important step-by-step game level approach – known from the classic digital games

Snakification