From Tuesday 15th to Friday 18th February 2022, the second of the meetings between the international partners of the Erasmus Plus project “My Life in Europe” took place in Bologna.
After the experience in Romania, which took place in July last year, Nkey Srl of Santa Croce sull’Arno, which is coordinator of the project, left again from Santa Croce sull’Arno, in the province of Pisa, to face four days of intensive work together with the partners.
Hosting and organising this Bologna session was the ASPHI Onlus Foundation.
The twenty-two participants carried out a series of activities with the final objective of creating a “serious game”, called “My Life The Game”. This is a game where you don’t win and you don’t lose, in which the players have the objective of writing their own autobiography in a guided way.
Among the topics discussed during the meetings, which took place in hybrid form, both in presence and online, were cognitive stimulation for social inclusion and intercultural and intergenerational exchange; lifelong learning and training for educators; and European citizenship for all citizens, including the most disadvantaged.
The activities carried out concerned the testing of the actual game, both in its paper form, which is played in groups, in presence and live, and in its online form, which can be played at a distance, in collective or individual form, and at different times.
From all the participants of Asphi, Nkey and the Free University of Autobiography of Anghiari, the Centrum Edukacji i Badań Społecznych (Poland), Vai Avante (Portugal) and the ProXpert association (Romania) came important stimuli for the development of the game and the production of a manual for trainers.
Carla Sabatini of Nkey Srl comments on the Bologna experience: “We are very satisfied with these four days, which were very intense but also very productive. We were able to go into some of the technical aspects of the game’s implementation in detail, and this will allow us to make all the teaching material available to the trainers on time. In times of pandemic this is by no means a foregone conclusion, but the determination of all the project partners is enabling us to achieve important results. We would also like to express our gratitude to the Asphi Foundation for organising this meeting so well. Gathering in the beautiful Palazzo Comunale of Bologna was really exciting: sharing spaces and moments of beauty is one of the ways to build a collective European identity, which is one of our general objectives when we talk about Erasmus Plus projects”.
The next event, which will take place in Portugal, is scheduled for May 2022.
