The Game on project is a project financed by the European Union within the Socrates - Grudtvig programme and joins partners from 5 countries: the United Kingdom, Italy, Greece, Bulgaria and Romania.

Duration: 24 months, October 2006 - September 2008

Objectives:

• To develop e-learning games and materials for usage in the re-education and social reinsertion process
• to ensure the involvement of the target group in the design, implementation and evaluation of materials
• to continuously evaluate the usefulness and usage of materials in all the performance stages of the project

Target Group: Prisoners, groups with a risk of imprisonment and social marginalisation, persons released from prisons, marginalized groups of prisoners (deaf persons and other persons with learning disabilities)

Main Activities:

• Game testing by a group of prisoners under the trainers' supervision
• Game testing by the trainers
• Training of trainers
• Adjustment of the thematic contents according to the specific of each country that is a member in the project
• Going through the educational process by the target group
• Project evaluation
• Communication and promotion of the project results

Expected Outcomes:

• a set of e-games and e-learning materials aiming at the enhancement of competences in the fields of: personal development, development of abilities at the work place, mathematics, vocabulary, IT.
• A set of learning tools for the groups of marginalized prisoners (deaf persons)
• A site used as a dissemination tool within the project and as intranet for the communication among partners.

Partners:

• Nottingham Trent University http://www.ntu.ac.uk
• E-Isotis, http://www.e-isotis.org
• Polo Europeo della Conoscenza - Rete Permanente di scuole (Liceo Scientifico Galileo Galilei), http:// www.europole-homeip.net
• BID Services with Deaf People, http:// www.bid.org.uk
• Greenhat Interactive Limited, http://www.greenhat.co.uk
• Sdruzhenie Integra http://integra.bg
• Centre of Professional Training in Culture, http://www.cppc.ro

Involvement of Romanian Partners:

Within this project, the Centre of Professional Training in Culture signed a cooperation protocol with the National Administration of Penitentiaries http://www.anp-just.ro/; together, they will carry out a part of the project activities:

• To facilitate the participation in the project of the target group (100 prisoners and 50 trainers),
• To contribute to the evaluation of the interface and of the educational contents of e-learning materials;
• To facilitate the performance of the educational process within the penitentiaries participating in the project;
• To provide sources and means for verifying the project activities and outcomes;
• To contribute to the evaluation of the project outcomes;
• To communicate and promote the project outcomes.

Project Coordinator for Romania:
Camelia Popescu,
Head of Technology, Information, Communication Service
e-mail:
tel: 021/310.08.15, 0788889343