An interactive learning and training tool about migration and integration.
| Duration: 30 – 90 min Number of players: 4/5 (plays in teams) Material: print & play version Link: https://destinationeurope.uni.lu |
Short description
Destination Europe is an engaging tabletop tool based on role-play that stimulates discussion and learning about some of the most topical issues in today’s Europe.
Educational Value
Educators can face difficulties when teaching about migration decision-making and its impacts on migrants and host societies. It is currently a highly politicised topic. Young people, their families and friends have different opinions and migration-related experiences. Public debate that shapes these opinions is not always well grounded in facts and can lack balanced representation of different points of view. This innovative learning tool uses role play and other game mechanisms that minimise potential tensions among users.
Recommendation for use
Destination Europe stimulates young people’s awareness and critical thinking about migration and integration. It is an interactive tabletop learning tool based on role-play that accommodates 4-6 players aged 16+. Over 90 minutes, they experience migration decision-making as a complex process that involves different actors with sometimes conflicting interests.
Players are faced with various migration challenges first at the European Union level and then in their national and city contexts. The tool illustrates real-life impacts policy decisions can have on various categories of migrants and the public in the countries that receive them. It was developed by migration experts from various European countries joined in the European Migration Network.
Tips and tricks
- The website has an instructional video and background material for educators and trainers.
- The game is free to download as a print and play in all European languages.
