This document provides information about an upcoming training course on educational games taking place from October 15-22 in Piles, Gandía, Spain. The training will have 32 participants from 8 European organizations who will share the results of testing educational game prototypes and discuss what makes a game educational and how to ensure learning. Participants will stay in a youth hostel near the beach and travel is reimbursed up to certain amounts depending on country of origin. Meals, accommodation, and some cultural activities are included.

1. Organised by:
javi@asociacionpromesas.com
ruta@asociacionpromesas.com
Albergue Juvenil Mar i Vent -
Piles - Gandía
+34 652 80 23 25 Javi
+34 611 44 57 56 Rūta
32 participants
Youth workers, youth leaders,
educators, beginners
facilitators…From 8 European
organisations coming from
Belgium, Italy, Slovakia, Czech
Republic, Portugal, Spain and
Latvia.
What?
In this second part of the training
course the participants will share
the result of the testing phase of
their prototypes of educational
games and go much deeper on the
topic.
What makes a game educational?
How can we assure learning in our
games?
Where?
In Piles, Gandía. A beach
town at the north of
Alicante (SPAIN).
With easy connections to
Europe through Valencia and
Alicante airports.
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October

2. INFORMATION ABOUT THE
TRANSPORTATION, VENUE AND
OTHER LOGISTICS
Dates and place
The training course will be held between the 15th and 22nd October. We will have 6
working days and 2 for the travel.You should arrive to Alicante on October 15th before 18:00 and the departure is
planned on 22nd October after 12pm. (remember this when looking for flights)Please plan your travel accordingly, we’ll be hosted in the Youth Hostel “Mar i Vent”
100 km north of Alicante and 82 km from Valencia.You can come using Alicante or Valencia airport. Madrid is 4 hours away and
Barcelona is around 7 hours away.
15th
Option 1: Coming through Alicante
We recommend you use www.skyscanner.net or www.momondo.com to find the
most convenient flights to and from Alicante.
Alicante’s airport (ALC) has cheap connections to London, Belgium, Milan and Cluj-
Napoca (Romania) using Ryanair, Easyjet and Wizzair. So if you are struggling to fit your
travel plans within your budget, try looking for flight to/from this places, then onto
Alicante.
We will organise 2 journeys on minibus from Alicante beach station (plaza del mar)
based on your arrival times (please fill the online form for this, once you have your
flight tickets www.rollthedicearrivals.tk )
Option 2: Coming through Valencia
If you arrive to Valencia airport then you can take a bus
from ALSA bus station. It takes 1 hour and it costs 8
Euros.

3. Option 1: ALICANTE to the meeting point.
You can get public bus C6 from Alicante Airport on the 2nd floor of the
airport exit. The bus costs 3.85€ and it has free wifi on board. Please be
aware you can only purchase tickets on the bus itself and in cash!. So please
make sure you have a little Euros in your pocket when you arrive to Spain.
The C6 departs from Alicante Airport almost every 20 minutes from 5:40am to midnight. Here
are the departure times of the C6 bus from Alicante Airport
Take the C6 bus to Puerta del Mar (it should be stop number 12 and It’s the last one) which
takes about 30 minutes to reach from the Airport. Look out for the beach.
Part 2: The “Roll the Dice” Minibus
In Puerta del mar you’ll see several bus stops. Wait for us there.We will organise 2 trips from this
point to our final destination and It will take around 80 minutes.
This is what you should see from the bus stop and where you can wait for us. (You will see a big
Spanish flag.) You can relax a while on the beach there if you arrive before.
SPAIN!
WELCOME TO
Health & insurance
We recommend you to get health insurance for your travel to Spain, as we
cannot cover it from the project budget.

4. Financial conditions
This training course is financed by the Erasmus+ programme, meaning the costs related to travel,
food and accommodation will be fully covered by the hosting organisation.
The maximum reimbursement per participant for travelling from each country is as follows:
Spain: 20€
Slovakia: 360€
Italy: 275€ (please check with organisers)
Netherlands: 275€ (please check with organisers)
Belgium: 275€
Portugal: 275€
Greece: 360€
Czech Republic: 275€
Latvia: 360€
If the travel costs will exceed the amounts specified above, you will have to pay the
difference, so you should look for the cheapest ways of transportation. Reimbursement will be done
by bank transfer after your arrival home and after you send us by post all the original travel
documents and the proof of their purchase (tickets, boarding passes, invoices, receipts, bank
statement etc.). So please keep ALL the travel documents. Also, reimbursement of transport will be
done only to participants who fully attend the training course activities and after filling the Mobility
Tool Participant’s Report that you will receive after attending the training.
If you need more explanations about the reimbursement ask Javi at javi@asociacionpromesas.com
Weather conditions
The month of October in Alicante can be very fluctuant between 8 and 31°C over the course of the
month. We are on the beach, so if you want to use it in your free time, plan accordingly. (swimsuit,
towel, flip flops and lots of sun screen protection!)
We suggest you to bring confortable clothes to be in a relaxed way.
There will be a gym in the hostel that you can use in your free time.
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5. Sergio
Sergio from Ha Moment - Portugal is a trainer,
project manager and game designer. Passionate
about non-formal education and tools that make
learning fun and engaging, like boardgames. Co-
creator of the games Mission Z, Real iDeal, Amazing
Island, and solo creator of “The Tunnel” (at prototype
and testing stage). You will find that he has got a big
sense of humor and can joke a lot but also is serious
regarding work. Lives in a small village in Portugal
where soon a new project regarding games will be
launched…More to discover.
Gonçalves
Rūta
Ruta from Asociación Promesas is a trainer
who loves working on Global Education,
Storytelling and the use of Puppets in
Education. Originally from Latvia, she
enjoys giving english lessons to children
and working with adults on environmental
causes.
Kronberga
Javi
Javi from Asociación Promesas is a non-formal
educator, trainer and Waldorf pedagogy
teacher. He has been involved in NFE as a
volunteer since 2002 when he joined the
scouts again as an educator. He has been
involved in planning teams for international
educational events for more than 60.000
people such as Jamboree 2007 UK, RoverWay
Italy, and was in charge of the adaptation of
Youth in Action for the European Scout
Region from 2006-2011 in Spain. He enjoys
been involved in many projects helping
NGO’s to create their own image and making
videos for them. He has co-created the
educational boardgame “Gira2” and co
created with Sergio “Mission Z”, Real iDeal
and Amazing Island games.
Quilez
The Trainers

6. Please join the Facebook group which will be our channel
of communication.
Here you can also meet other participants: https://
www.facebook.com/groups/2345501085664814/
Meals
Food is the energy of our bodies and it affects our state
of mind too, therefore we want to take it as part of the
experience.
We will have Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner there so
please let us know if you have any special requirement.
We will also have 2 coffee breaks during the day (coffee,
tea, biscuits, fruit…)
Accomodation
We’ll be sharing bedrooms among 3 people,
gender based.
It will be a humble youth hostel, not fancy at all but we’ll
be 2 meters from the beach and it will be just for us (at least until
now). To compensate this we will make a cultural visit by bus to a
nice place (still to decide).
We will have to share bathrooms and showers, so bring your flip
flops and towels.
Bed linen will be given by the hostel.
FACEBOOK
GROUP

7. Hope you feel prepared after reading this info pack.
In case of questions, contact us or your sending organisation
SEE YOU SOON IN ALICANTE !
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