Not all classrooms have four walls. Real excitement is when you are learning in a non-formal way and you don’t even realise how much it is polishing your skills. Simulation & role-play games are appealing and fun for everybody, making it ideal as a tool for educational work with youngsters.

In 2021, Cirkus la Bulle travelled to the beach of Vieux-Boucau, on the Atlantic coast in France for the project called “Game Zone”.

The training course including 24 participants and 5 team members from 11 countries (Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Greece, Malta, Poland, portugal and Slovenia) was organised By association la Villa (FR), Shokkin Group (EST) and BE international (CZ)

During the 8 day training coursem we discovered how to use educational games as a method of youth work. Our main idea is that simulation and roleplay games are appealing and fun for everybody, making it ideal as a tool of education with youngsters.

The aim of the project was to equip youth workers and youth leaders with tools, frameworks and space to create and implement educational games that address social issues and can be applied in their environments.