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Our project was focused on forming the attitudes of young people through using larps as an educational method. Together with partners from the Czech Republic and Estonia, we have identified the following problems in today's young people: inclination to extremism, low tolerance for differences, inability to stand out and look at the situation from others point of view, lack of critical thinking, inability to see and bear the consequences of their decisions and the insufficient impact of the activities of schools and youth organizations on forming young people's attitudes. Addressing these needs must be much more comprehensive and must include not only non-formal education systems but also formal education, so that young people's thinking is gradually formed and changed to a greater extent than nowadays.The main objective of the project was to form the attitudes of young people through using larps as an educational method, especially in the field of tolerance for differences and in decision-making processes on important issues of their lives and bearing the consequences of their decisions. Larp is a specific type of role-based game. Larp allows players to experience deep emotions and open up a variety of topics and perceive them from the safety of their role, from which they will emerge at the end of the game. Due to the length of the game, the actions are reflected immediately and there is a clear connection between them. This leads to an awareness of the consequences and a confrontation of how we experience similar situations in our daily lives. At the same time, it has a great impact on forming young people's attitudes.We created the following outputs in the project: Methodology for measuring young people's attitudes - within the project we created questionnaires to be able to measure the entry and exit level of participants regarding their attitudes. A special online application Bethy was also programmed for these questionnaires, which evaluates the results of these questionnaires.Educational programs using larps - within this output we have created as the main output eight educational programs using larps with current topics of the situation in our societies as well as with current topics addressed by young people in our countries. The larps are based on our defined needs and we focused thematically on several different areas: decision-making, consequences, differences, ideologies that lead to extremism, addiction. We also pilot-tested these programs and developed a complete methodology for them.Methodology of forming the attitudes of young people in non-formal and formal education. The methodology was programmed with the portal www.larxperience.com, where those interested in this method will find all the necessary information, including materials for larp games. The first part of the methodology is devoted to the definition of attitudes, as well as methods of their development and to work with experience as the most effective form of influencing the attitudes of young people. The next part deals with larps as a method of education. The project had an impact on both non-formal and formal education.
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