On January 30 and 31, 2020, the first meeting of the C-Game project - a career guidance game in a city full of opportunities, was held at the Czech Technical University building in the Department of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics.
The project has set itself the ambitious task, in the form of a game, to familiarize students in the 12-14 year age range with possiblities for further education, with a view to, and in the distant future, professional realization. This is the most vulnerable student group being on a crossroad of choices where, on the one hand primary education ends and the possibilities for continuation are different - language, vocational high schools, on the other hand, sometimes the wrong influences of the environment, friends and parents.
Partners from the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Greece and Bulgaria have had a long debate about the design of the game, the challenges it will present to this target group, so to be both interesting and useful. In the game, each participant will be able to make a brief self-assessment of their knowledge and skills, both formal and informal (personal descriptors), after which they will be offered a test in which their interest groups will be determined, will have the opportunity in a virtual city to follow their educational path and to choose their desired employment, among the variety of professions, sometimes missing in the city or even the country in which they live, but most suited to him both as a desire and as an opportunity. At the very end, the game will offer a list of professions (with professional descriptors) that are as relevant as possible to their personal ones and areas of interest.
To enrich the knowledge about the professions in the game will also be provided missions with different focus - ecology, teamwork, leadership, etc.
