GATES – Building skills for social entrepreneurship. Game based training to answer the disruptive shift that will reshape the youth workforce landscape. ~ Running dates: January 2018 – June 2019 ~ Programme: Erasmus+ KA2 Strategic Partnerships in the field of Youth ~ ID number: 2017-2-PL01-KA205-039199

1. Building skills for social
entrepreneurship. Game
based training to answer
the disruptive shift that
will reshape the youth
workforce landscape
AN ERASMUS+ PROJECT
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2. Aims & Focus
Assess the situation of sub-employed young persons.
Detect their training needs with regards to social entrepreneurship.
Determinate a set of competences and skills (both hard and soft) that define
social entrepreneur.
Develop a new pedagogical methodology based on games to promote social
entrepreneurship among young people.
Design a training tool base on a previous pedagogical approach.
Build an informal, open and collaborative environment that supports
learning and facilitates knowledge and ideas sharing, while promoting joint
entrepreneurship activities (peer-mentoring approach).
Create a critical mass on project topic and involve different actors,
enhancing the multi stakeholder approach.
Define the transfer-ability and compatibility of the developed approach to
other young people collectives and to other learning areas.
Project’s main objective is to enhance the employ-ability of young people and
their position in the labour market, developing their competencies and skills
for social entrepreneurship through game based learning. In order to
achieve this main objective, project aims to
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Running dates: January 2018 – June 2019
Programme: Erasmus+ KA2 Strategic
Partnerships in the field of Youth
ID number: 2017-2-PL01-KA205-039199
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3. The board game
Gamification 101
Board games are an important tool to provide
hands-on and heads-on skill and knowledge
development for people of all ages on all subjects
in fact. Not only do well-designed games create
an engaging atmosphere, they also provide a
nonthreatening, playful, yet competitive
environment in which to focus on content and
reinforce and apply learning. The board itself
provides a visual metaphor to help connect
information. Effective games serve to organize
information in a conceptual framework and to
make it concrete.
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Gamification 101
Games provide not only fun but serious learning in a captivating
manner even if commercially available relevant games are used
(Bokyeong et al. 2009). They enable the players to become
decision makers, experimenting with different ways of thinking,
experiencing the subject domain in different ways, creating a
platform and capability of future learning and problem solving
(Gee 2003).

4. The document has been developed following a
path that we began in the objectives of the
project, and we go through it stopping at
important aspects such as social
entrepreneurship
(which shows us the different elements that
compose and determine it), the emerging
technical, social and/or interpersonal skills that
are key to empredner socially (and their
interrelations) and the pedagogical approach to
use within our training tool. And thus reach
our first goal of the GATES project: Conceptual
map of the project.
OP1. High concept document
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5. GATES board game, will develop two different types of competences,
addressed while playing and learning how to set and manage a social
enterprise.
GATEScompetences
Social impact
assessment
Social
Assessment
Financing
& Resourses
Management
Time
Management
Planning
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6. Social intelligence: ability to connect to
others in a deep and direct way, to sense
and stimulate reactions and desired
interactions.
Sense making: ability to determine the
deeper meaning or significance of what is
being expressed.
Novel & adoptive thinking: proficiency at
thinking and coming up with solutions
and responses beyond that which is ruled
based
Cross-cultural competency: ability to
operate in different cultural settings.
Computational thinking: ability to
translate vast amounts of data into
abstract concepts and to understand
data-based reasoning
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7. 1 board game
4 countries
8 cities
Dozens of activities
A 5-days transnational
workshop
Hundreds of players
OUR PLAYFULL
TRAVEL

8. We reviewed the goals and
aims of the project,
contributed to design of the
GATES Game for boosting key
competences and skills of
young social entrepreneurs
and discussed about the
preparation period for the 5
days GATES TC (Feb. 2019) in
Spain.
30-31 JAN. 2018
Kick Of Meeting – Albacete, Spain
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POS Co-working Space, our
associated partner, hosted us
within the framework of the
first cycle of entrepreneurship
“ReSTART U.P.” organized in
collaboration with the
University of Patras, for an
afternoon Session about social
Entrepreneurship and social
corporate Responsibilities,
there, we got the chance to
present GATES Project and
present its’ aims and
deliverables.
29 MAR. 2018
GATES Project at “reSTARTUP”,
Patras, Greece

9. Our partner organization
InterMediaKT presented
GATES Project during the
Partas IQ 2018 Expo. It is the
biggest knowledge transfer &
technology event in Western
Greece. The project drew the
attention of many people
interested in its scope.
Members of InterMediaKT
spoke about the project in the
local Media (TV and radio).
APRIL 2018
GATES Project at IQ EXPO, Patras,
Greece
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On 6-7 July, our project partner
InterMediaKT participated in the first
Social Economy EXPO of Western Greece,
organised in Patras.For the first time, the
EXPO intended to gather together the
social enterprises, organisations and
stakeholders of the region, inform them
about the upcoming opportunities based on
the new national framework, create a
network, record their needs, and provide
advice and mentoring on how to grow.
Hundreds of people visited the EXPO,
including Minister of Labor Efi
Achtsioglou, Vice Minister of Labor
Theano Fotiou, Regional Governor
Apostolos Katsifaras, and InterMediaKT
had the chance to promote our GATES
Project explaining the method of
gamification as an educational tool, as also
how it can be the base for creating a social
enterprise idea.
6-7 JULY 2018
GATES project at Social Economy EXPO,
Patras, Greece

10. InterMediaKT happily hosted the
partners of GATES project for the two-
days meeting. By revisiting the progress
on our board game creation, the content
development strategy and the upcoming
C1 learning Mobility, which will take
place in Albacete, Spain, we can now keep
up to date with game-based training to
answer the disruptive shift that will
reshape the youth workforce
landscape.The consortium visited our
associated partners from Greece, “Cafe
Gefyres”, a social cafe in Patras, which is
trying to integrate people with mental
disabilities in the labor market. Also, POS
Coworking Space – POS4work, who is not
just associate partners of the project, but
also the first co-working space in Patras
and who will be the first entrepreneurial
setting to enjoy our GATES board game
for social entrepreneurship!We spoke
with its’ people, we learned all about their
upcoming tasks – activities and we’re glad
to have them in our network!!!
10-11 SEP. 2018
2nd Transnational Meeting
Patras, Greece
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Within the framework of GATES project,
we organized a combined mobility of
young persons, held in Spain in February
2019 with Dramblys being the hosting
partner. A total of 11 younth workers
participated in the mobility: 3 from
Poland, 4 from Greece and 4 from Spain.
In addition, 4 (one from each partner)
persons supported the learners who
participated in the mobility as Group
Leaders. Together with the training
activities, participants developed cultural
activities that supported GATES training
process.
25/02 – 01/03 2019
Training Activity – Albacete, Spain

11. GATES C1 TRAINING PROGRAMME
Day 1
Morning Session
Introduction of the
evaluation activities and
pre-survey completion
Programme
presentation, group
agreement and our
expectations
GATES project
presentation
Youth social
entrepreneurship in
question
Afternoon Session
Let´s Play! GATES Board
game presentation and
evaluation
Day 2
Morning Session
WOMCA Workshop:
Breaking the fears of
being an entrepreneur
WOMCA Workshop (part
II)
Visiting Albacete
Business Innovation
Centre
Afternoon Session
Visiting AJE Albacete
Day 3
Morning Session
Mission: “YES, WE CAN”
Five Steps Activity to
Develop Social
Entrepreneurship
Spot on & Make it
LOUD! Inspiring –
Identifying – Visualizing
Afternoon Session
GLOBE board game
presentation: playing for
green entrepreneurship
Day 4
Morning Session
Introduction of the
session
Reframe the local issue
to address: Co-create
solutions (the social
enterprise)
Pitching your ideas
Visiting “Restaurante
Escuela El Sembrador”
Afternoon Session
Visiting “Café Tienda
Romero” & “Koopera
Store"
Day 5
Morning Session
Training assessment and
working on the follow up
ideas
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12. On 16th – 17th of March we had the
chance with our partn 2019ers from
InterMediaΚT to play and test our board
game during Social Bus session at Sparti
TechLab in Sparta, Greece! More than 20
participants played and tested our game
providing valuable feedback and of
course, having a great time!
MARCH 2019
GATES Game testing phase at Social Bus
session at Sparti TechLab - Greece
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The Young Foundation ran GATES testing
session on the 3rd April, with students of
6th grade (ages 16-17) at Wood Green
School in Witney (Oxfordshire). Three of
their teachers and a social entrepreneur
joined with the students and observed
them playing. The young people playing
found the game very competitive which
they enjoyed it, quite challenging to figure
out the rules but had fun eventually.
APRIL 2019
The Young Foundation – GATES board game
testing session | April 3 at Wood Green
School in Witney – UK.

13. The Multiplier event was organised by
The Young Foundation in Mulberry
Academy Shoreditch, London, on the
8th May 2019, under the title Prototyping
ideas, using GATES board game
example.The event invitation was
disseminated using The Young
Foundation’s local networks in Tower
Hamlets. Local leaders were invited by
invitation and the school supported
dissemination. The young participants
were recruited within Amplify Youth
programme participants at Mulberry
Academy Shoreditch.The event was run
with a group of young people and a
teacher that are already participating in
The Young Foundation’s programme
Amplify Youth in Town Hamlets. Three
experts attended the session – a teacher, a
community leader, a community worker
and a council representative –
contributing to the discussion with young
people and participating in the activities
with them.
APRIL 2019
Prototyping ideas Workshops in London,
by The Young Foundation
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For second consecutive year, οur partner
organization InterMediaKT presented
GATES Project during the Patras IQ 2019
Expo. It is the biggest knowledge transfer
& technology event in Western Greece. The
project drew the attention of many people
interested in its scope. Members of
InterMediaKT spoke about the project in
the local media (TV and radio) and
informed the visitors about the project
goals and the GATES board game.
APRIL 2019
GATES Project at IQ EXPO for 2nd time –
Patras, Greece

14. On Friday, 19/4, in POS4work, Patras,
Greece, our partners
from InterMediaΚT did their second
testing of our board game’s draft
version!They organized an interactive
workshop talking about the effect that a
social business can have in society. The
workshop included playing
the #BoardGame of our project.We keep
working, we keep improving, every day
closer to our goals
APRIL 2019
2nd testing of our board game’s draft
version! Patras - Greece
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On 8th of May our Greek partners from
InterMediaKT ran the 3rd test session of
the draft version of our board game. The
board game introduced the participants
into the principles of Social
Entrepreneurship and the learning
objectives of the European GATES Project.
MAY 2019
InterMediaKT’s 3rd test session
of the board game

15. 28 participants took part in the board
game session GATES. They were given
box with the prototype and written rules.
Without any game master, teacher or
facilitator they were encouraged to play
and make all the comments. Among the
young people, we hosted players from
Brazil, Greece, Italy, Slovenia, Bulgaria
and Poland. For the organizers it was a
nice experience to see if the mechanics
works. Well, some points must be
improved and comments were really
useful. What the people liked the most
was the fact that they have to make
decision by themselves and the is also a
competitive spirit. What thet did like
least was the long instruction that made
them bored at the beginning.
JUNE 2019
Fundacja Autokreacja testing session on
27th of June 2019, Warsaw, Poland
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On 11 July the Young Foundation ran our
second testing session with the GATES
board game in Nottingham at the Dice Cup
board game café. We had a great time
running four different games with the
board game enthusiasts at the café and
gathered a lot of helpful feedback and
advice.
JULY 2019
The Young Foundation’s testing session 11
July 2019 – Nottingham, The Dice Cup

16. On 27 July the Young Foundation ran our
third testing session in London at Proceed
Clockwise, a board game café just down
the street from our office. We ran four
games with young people and board game
enthusiasts who gave us helpful feedback
on the handbook and the game itself.
JULY 2019
Young Foundation’s testing session on 27
July 2019 – London, Proceed Clockwise
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On 5th of September, with all our our
partners, InterMediaΚT, TYF-The Young
Foundatio and Dramblys we had an
opportunity to present our business board
game in an event hosted by Fundacja
Autokreacja !Together with youth people,
we named our game “Sociopolis“!!Soon
you will find more information and news
about “GATES Project” on our website, in
GAME section!
SEPTEMBER 2019
GATES Conference – Sociopolis Game
Presentation – 5/9/2019, Warsaw, Poland

17. On 27 July the Young Foundation ran our
third testing session in London at Proceed
Clockwise, a board game café just down
the street from our office. We ran four
games with young people and board game
enthusiasts who gave us helpful feedback
on the handbook and the game itself.
SEPTEMBER 2019
Sociopolis in Oldham – 24th September
2019, by the The Young Foundation
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DRAMBLYS organized two Multiplier
Events that took place on the 27th and
28th of September. The event celebrated
on the 27th of September took place at
Delirio Coffee Place. It counted on the 11
participants, including young people and
youth workers and trainers and/or social
entrepreneurs. The event celebrated on the
28th of September took place at the
Municipal Youth Centre, counting on 9
participants: youth workers and young
people interested in social
entrepreneurship mainly. During the
events DRAMBLYS has presented GATES
project and the methodology behind
SOCIOPOLIS game and so, the participants
had an opportunity to play SOCIOPOLIS.
During both events a very positive
feedback has been gathered from the
participants regarding the game, who
enjoyed learning and playing. Below,
posters and some pictures from the events.
SEPTEMBER 2019
Dramblys Multiplier Events – 27th & 28th of
September 2019, Albacete, Spain

18. 30/09
InterMediaKT’s Multiplier
Event “Playing for impact
– The “sociopolis” board
game”
On 30th of September 2019 InterMediaKT organized an event
called Playing for Impact – The “Sociopolis” board game”
which aimed at young people, students, executives, youth
trainers, HR managers in order to promote the use of
gamification, to develop a sense of initiative and
entrepreneurship for young people / employees through our
board game.A sense of initiative concerns not only how to set
up a real business, but also the ability of the individual to turn
their ideas into action. The use of playing techniques is a way
of arousing interest, involvement, motivation and creativity
among team members.During the event, InterMediaKT also
presented the methodology and results of the European
GATES project and played live the board game our
consortium developed!
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19. Reach Us
For questions or more info
WEBSITE
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FACEBOOK PAGE
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EMAIL ADDRESS
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