Game Mode for youth Work
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Game Mode for youth work -project is funded by European Social Fund and the City of Oulu. Operating time is from March 2021 to August 2023.
The project's activities:
1. Developing pilot projects related to digital youth work and web culture together with young people aged between 15 and 29
2. Supporting and evaluating the execution of pilot projects
3. Co-developin the policies of digital gaming in professional youth work
Developing digital youth work through pilot projects
Innovation competition Skillimylly aims to develop youth involvement, online engagement with other people and activities that showcase young people’s non-formal skills and know-how. Skillimylly's goal is to increase the participation of young people in Oulu while developing new methods for digital youth work. Received project proposals will be assessed by a panel composing of young people aged between 15 and 29 with professional youth workers living in the city of Oulu.
Ideally the young people have an active leading part in planning process and implementing the project.