🔑 Key Information
Activity ⭐️ Title
The Game Changer 2.0: From Board Games to Learning in Youth Work
Activity 🔶 Type | 📆 Dates | 📍Location
Training Course
2-8 October 2026 | Politistiko Ergastiri Ayion Omoloyiton, Cyprus
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❗️What Is This Training About?
Why invent from scratch when great games already exist? We transform modern board games—rich in strategy, communication, and creativity—into powerful tools for youth learning, helping youth workers develop key competences through play.
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ℹ️ Description About The Opportunity
Why invent from scratch when the best games already exist?
We turn modern board games—rich in strategy, communication, and creativity—into powerful tools for youth learning. Discover how these engaging worlds connect with youth workers’ competences and spark alternative learning experiences.
Join us to play, learn, and change the game in youth work – join us for “Volu.M.E. Series – The Game Changer: From Board Games to Learning in Youth Work.”
Turn a Game into Learning
Why reinvent the wheel when the world of board games already offers an incredible toolbox for learning, reflection, and growth?
In this edition of the Volu.M.E. (Volunteering. Motivation. Empowerment.) Series, The Game Changer invites youth workers, educators, and facilitators to explore how modern board games can become powerful educational tools in youth work. The focus will be on the development of competences for youth workers engaged in working with young people.
Instead of building new games from scratch, we will dive into the rich universe of professionally designed, beautifully crafted, and deeply engaging board games. These systems are built on rules, strategy, communication, and creativity—designed to challenge minds and foster connection.
Together, we will explore:
How existing games can be reframed as tools for competence development and experiential learning, including exploration of the ETS Competence Model for Youth Workers Working Internationally
How to design meaningful learning experiences through play
How to use games to build teamwork, problem-solving, and social skills among young people
Questions guiding and supporting our learning process will include:
What is a competence-based approach, and what does it have to do with games?
What can we learn from a game about our own competences?
Training overview
This Training Course is
for 24 participants
from Erasmus+ Youth Programme countries 
and recommended for
Youth workers, Trainers, Youth leaders, Volunteering mentors, Youth coaches, Educators, pedagogists working with youth and using Board Games either for education or fun
Working language(s):
English
Organiser:
Politistiko Ergastiri Ayion Omoloyiton (Others)
Politistiko Ergastiri Ayion Omoloyiton is active in the city of Lefkosia. It is made up of people who work in the field of Art and Culture and aims, with events and presentations it organizes, to offer creative opportunities to the citizens of Lefkosia and its members, mainly through arts, music and dance. It is a non-profit organization and provides resources from its members' subscriptions and offers from individuals or organizations that trust its activity. Since its foundation in 1999 it has developed a rich artistic activity and has managed to establish itself in the consciousness of the citizens of Lefkosia as one of the most important cultural institutions of the city.
The organisation focused on Volunteer management and Mentoring Trainings under its Youth Accreditation of Erasmus Plus
Co-organiser(s):
- EJBW (Others)
- Pro Vobis (Others)
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📥 Contact
Contact for questions:
Panayiotis Theodorou
E-Mail:
Phone: +35722256782
💶 Costs
Participation fee
We are aware of the difficult financial situation faced by many people active in the field. Nevertheless, we consider the offered events to be a high-quality experience in terms of venues, tools, and activities, and therefore a unique opportunity for personal learning, professional development, and networking. For this reason, and beyond the funding received from European taxpayers, the events are not intended to be “for free.”
Furthermore, as providers of civic education—also focusing on topics such as (global) social justice—we have decided to disrupt the vicious cycle of underpayment affecting people active in the field of (international) youth work and education. These are individuals who dedicate their time, energy, and expertise to creating high-quality learning experiences. We therefore commit to offering fair remuneration for their work (e.g. freelance trainers, facilitators, or support staff).
For these reasons, a financial contribution from each participant is required, based on individual situation and self-assessment:
You are, for example, a student, unemployed person, or volunteer without personal income (reduced fee): 50.00 EUR
You are, for example, a freelance youth worker, trainer, or educator with your own income (regular fee): 75.00 EUR
You are, for example, a person in stable employment (solidarity fee): 100.00 EUR
Accommodation and food
Accommodation & Board for activity days and travel costs are coveres by the programme
Travel reimbursement
Travel costs will be reimbursed on the basis of the cheapest available options, such as second-class railway tickets or economy-class flights, within the provided limits. Reimbursement applies to travel from the place of residence to the venue of the activity and back up to real costs.
Reimbursement is calculated according to the rates of the European Commission’s Distance Calculator
(https://erasmus-plus.ec.europa.eu/de/node/2626) and the related regulations, as follows:
10–99 km: 28.00 EUR / Green travel: 56.00 EUR
100–499 km: 211.00 EUR / Green travel: 285.00 EUR
500–1,999 km: 309.00 EUR / Green travel: 417.00 EUR
2,000–2,999 km: 395.00 EUR / Green travel: 535.00 EUR
3,000–3,999 km: 580.00 EUR / Green travel: 785.00 EUR
📜 Certificate
Participants are entitled to receive a Youthpass certificate from the organiser, for recognition of their competence development during the activity. Read more about Youthpass:
https://youthworkshub.org/15122
⚠️ Important Dates
Application deadline (24h UTC): 25 August 2026
Date of selection: 1 September 2026
🔗 Official Link
🗂️ Documents
Game Changer_2.0_CALL_FINAL_08072026.pdf
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⚠️ Important Notice
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