The Project

The project GAME ON – Language Learning Games for Migrants and Refugees is a co-funded Erasmus+ project which proposes an innovative, non-formal learning game-based approach, promoting social inclusion of migrants and refugees through foreign language learning, focusing on everyday dialogues that adult people need in their usual social interactions.

In addition to this, the specific objective of GAME ON is to develop language learning game-based methodologies for migrants and refugees at level A1/A2, using non-formal learning approaches and to build the capacity of language teachers to use games in language learning.

Over the last five years, EU countries have experienced a massive follow of migrants. The reasons pushing individuals and families to leave their home counties usually depend on political, economic or social issues that do not depend on the individual. There is an urgent need to integrate those migrants and refugees in our societies.

One of the biggest barriers for the integration of adult migrants and refugees is language. They need to efficiently learn the language of the host county in a short amount of time, in order to be able to communicate at a basic level. While for the children, attendance of school education in the host country is a good mechanism for social inclusion, adults do not have opportunities to socialise and integrate in local societies.

GAME ON is expected to have a significant beneficial impact on language teachers that provide language courses to migrants and refugees, as well as on the migrants and refugees themselves. The project will also have a positive impact on the staff and NGO’s and migrants’ support organizations that can use the games in social contexts

The project has two main target groups

Migrants and refugees who are learning a foreign language

Migrants’ educators, language trainers & education providers, teaching institutions and learners

Objectives

The general objective of the project is to promote social inclusion of migrants and refugees, through foreign language learning focusing on everyday dialogue that adult people need in their usual social interactions encouraging migrants and refugees to get engaged in language learning.

Specific objectives of Game On are:

To build the capacity of language learning, tailored to migrant adults autonomously rt combined with other types of learning games.

To develop language learning games-based methodologies for migrants and refugees, using non-formal learning approaches.

To develop games for language learning, tailored to migrant adults at level A1 and A2.

To develop digital learning games at level A1 and A2, to be used autonomously or combined with other types of learning games.