The document provides an update on the progress of the "Borderline Board Games Legacy" project, which aims to develop educational board and card games to teach values to young people. Over the past 9 months, the international consortium has defined 75 core values through research. They held meetings to ensure common understanding and test versions of the games in different countries. The card game is nearing completion and the board game has been tested across Europe. They are on track to have the final products ready in 8 languages by the end of the project. They provide information on how to get involved in testing the board game and their work to promote inclusive youth work and share partner values profiles online.

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APRIL 2020
INFOLETTER FOR ASSOCIATED PARTNERS
Dear associated partners, friends and colleagues,
We hope all are doing well in the current situation. It has an
impact on our daily life, and as you imagine, also on the progress
of the planned project Borderline Board Games Legacy.
Nevertheless, we do continue and are happy to inform you
about the “state of play”
At the start of 2019, you have all expressed an interest in the
new educational tools we intended to develop with the formed
international consortium. The project application form was
greatly approved and the project concretely started in July 2019.
Now, 9 months later and halfway through the project lifetime,
we are excited with the progress so far. We’re still tightly on
track so far and the results are already very promising.
A quick reminder of the project aim: the development of an educational board game
tackling and demystifying values for different stakeholders in the youth
field, especially young people. This combined with a separate Card Game
(75 identified values after research) and Inclusive Rules Guide.
All of the above to be fully ready and operational in 8 different languages
(Portuguese, Dutch, French, Croatian, Lithuanian, Spanish, Italian and
English) by the end of the project.
Therefore, with this infoletter, we are happy to update you
about the ongoing process in the Strategic Partnership,
funded by Erasmus+: Youth in Action Programme:
Borderline Board Games Legacy.

2. A short summary of the past 9 months
to bring you up to speed:
Through an extensive desk research and many
online meetings, we defined a unique selection
of 75 core values. Values relevant for the youth
field and for which we -as educators- wish to
use in our educational programmes.
Additionally, these values were checked to their
relevance in each of the involved “cultures” and
possible correct translations. A Transnational
Partner Meeting in Belgium October 2019 was
an important face-to-face kick off for a good
common understanding of the mutual strategy
lined out. Currently we are at the final part of
the test phase. The Card Game will soon go into
concrete production with the final design, and
will be made available online for free
downloads.
Meanwhile, the Educational Board Game has
been designed and was extensively tested all
over Europe with a variety of profile groups (till
COVID-19). Different versions are being
explored (within the spirit of Design Thinking)
and the Facilitator Guide will offer these
different versions.
We consider this an increased richness, once
the board game becomes easily adaptable
towards all kinds of groups, be it in size, profile,
time available or main focus.
An ambitious process, especially considering
the big number of involved partners and other
stakeholders. Monthly Skype Meetings,
interspersed with an ongoing communication
process through the collaborative tool Slack,
and supported by additional emails, WhatsApp,
Messenger and Facebook. Lately we started to
use Zoom to be able to have longer meetings
and to break up in separate workgroups during
the same meeting. On the 25th of March we
had a marathon meeting of 8 hours in which we
made a lot of progress.
We are also very proud to present the 2nd test
version of the educational board game on the
coming VALUE FAIR 2020, the first week of
June in Athens - Greece. As many amongst you
were present at the 1st Value Fair (December
2018, Portugal) and quite some might be
coming to the 2nd edition, we are looking
forward to meeting up there!
So
What’s up?

3. BOARD GAME ON VALUES
ARE YOU INTERESTED IN BEING PART OF THE TEST PHASE?
1st prototype
Contact -by preference- the involved partner if you would be based in the same country. Otherwise, feel free to contact
anyone and we check how things can be organised. Knowing that many members in our consortium are very active in the
international youth work scene, there is always a chance to combine.
Find at the bottom of this infoletter all the contacts of each consortium partner.
INCLUSIVE RULES GUIDE
This booklet intends to serve as a guiding instrument for all those who
wish to pay more attention to inclusive aspects within youth work as
such. This not only as a youth worker, but also concretely when using
educational tools, e.g. an educational board game
VALUE PROFILES
With the consortium, we have also challenged ourselves to explore more the
values we each stand for. On 01/03/2020, we have all launched these value
profiles on our different social media, in order to create a bigger visibility
when it comes to values. And hereby, we also invite you to such an exciting
exercise!

4. FOLLOW THE PROCESS!
@BBGamesLegacy
facebook.com/bbgameslegacy
instagram.com/bbgameslegacy
@BBGamesLegacy
(Facebook page)
https:/
/youtu.be/j6QCFP_-4XU
#BBGamesLegacy gives you in a click an insight into
what has been happening and is described above.