The initiative is part of the European project FUTURE and aims to enhance, recognize and promote good practices of innovative tools, interactive games, scenarios, methods, platforms and other digital and non-digital game-based instruments for career guidance, information and counseling.
The project involves 7 organizations across Europe: Business Foundation for Education, Bulgaria (coordinator); CTI – Greece, EBCC – Portugal, CIAPE – Italy, University of Lodz – Poland, Innovation in Learning Institute – Germany and Aspire-igen – UK.
The competition is targeted at professionals who are involved in career counseling in all areas of education and training, for example:
- career guidance professionals;
- school counselors / psychologists, job mediators or other related professionals, who deal with issues of vocational guidance for pupils, students and young adults;
- trainers, coaches and informal sector educators.
They can apply in the competition individually or as teams:
- individual applicants;
- professional teams composed of more than one participant;
- mixed teams composed of professionals and representatives of the target groups (pupils, young people, adults, etc.)
The contest is open for participants from all European countries. A participant / team can participate in the contest with more than one application (game, tool).
The deadline is 31 December 2019.
Application form
Applications from Bulgaria, Germany, Greece, Italy, Poland, Portugal and United Kingdom should be submitted in the official national language.
Applications from other European countries should be submitted in English.
A jury will evaluate the entries against the following award criteria:
- innovation (40 points) – Introducing innovative, innovative tools that currently do not exist in the particular region or target group.
- impact (30 points) – the tool/ game responds the needs of the target group and have a proven impact/ effect;
- multiplication potential (30 points) – the results, methods / approaches can be sustained and applied by other career counselors.
The results will be announced in February 2020.
Awards
Three national awards will be announced in each partner country (Bulgaria, Greece, Germany, Italy, Poland, Portugal and UK).
Additionally, three international awards will be announced for participants from other European countries beyond the consortium.
- All participants in the contest who have more than 80 points will receive a certificate, and their tools will be presented on the Future Time Traveler website and on the Facebook page.
- Participants and teams who submitted the three best practices in each country will be invited to demonstrate their instruments during the national final event in the end of 2020.
- The awarded tools and games from the partner countries and from Europe will be included in an e-book and will be promoted through the Euroguidance network across Europe.
- The winner from each country and the winner from the international contest (from other / non-partner European countries) will be awarded a participation in a study visit, hosted by Aspire-Igen, which is the UK Euroguidance center.
The FUTURE project is funded with the support of the European commission. It aims at transforming the career guidance for the generatoin Z through “Future Time Traveller” innovative career game in 3D virtual world which intrdocudes young people with the jobs of the future using digital adventure missioins and learning challenges.
Find out more athttp://future-time-traveller.eu