Initiatve Games
Partnerschools
Our work is based on testing our workshop concepts and methods in a practical setting. This means we do not develop our concepts in a vacuum. Our concepts and methods are tested in our partner schools. These schools have agreed to test new concepts with us and provide us with feedback. These are based on an intersection between a game analysis of the specific game and the curriculum of a particular federal state.
Partner schools have the privilege of participating in the development of innovative workshop concepts and methods, reflecting on them, and implementing them in the classroom before anyone else. As a partner school, you will be provided with individual iterations of workshop concepts and methods. Workshop trials are free of charge for partner schools if financing by industry or other educational institutions has been clarified. General workshops with already developed concepts can be held too, but these are not free of charge. If a school decides to use the game outside our workshops, the appropriate licenses must be purchased as well. We are available to advise partner schools on this free of charge.
How does one become a partner school?
Here is the process for becoming a partner school with us.
1. Getting to know each other personally
You write to us so we can hold a workshop, project day, or training course at your school.
2. Conducting a workshop
Our staff will review the cooperation in terms of structure.
3. Review of the school concept
We want to work with our partner schools to represent different social backgrounds and different school concepts. This enables us to ensure that our concepts can work in different social structures.
4. Verification of values
After an initial collaboration, a binding cooperation agreement is drawn up in a joint meeting. As a company, it is important to us that the school shares our democratic values and is committed to innovative school concepts.
5. Listing of subjects
As a partner school, you specify subject areas, in which you want to use games or are open to using them. We present a corresponding concept to the organizing teacher and prepare an overview of games for internal school conferences. Once the date of the workshop has been agreed upon, we come to the school to teach it.
Real-life learning through games