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Exploring learning and teamwork through games: Playing SpaceTeam
Exploring learning and teamwork through games: Playing SpaceTeam
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This activity helps youth workers and youth work managers explore the value of multiplayer games in learning, communication, and teamwork.
Using the cooperative game SpaceTeam, you will reflect on your gameplay experiences, favourite games, and how games can be meaningfully used in youth work.
By completing this activity, you will:
- Strengthen your communication and collaboration skills through play.
- Reflect on why and how games matter in your life or work.
- Explore how multiplayer games can support youth work practice and organisational strategy.
Get inspired
SpaceTeam is a chaotic, cooperative online or card game where players must shout, coordinate, and adapt to survive together on a virtual spaceship. You’ll need teamwork, timing, and trust. Beyond the fun and shouting, games like SpaceTeam are great tools for building communication, empathy, and inclusion.
Take action: activities for different roles
Explore the following role-specific badges to access activities designed to enhance your digital youth work within the organisation: Navigate to a specific badge and complete activities as a youth worker and youth work manager. Involve young people in co-designing digital youth work solutions.
- Youth workers can facilitate the Connected Player badge activities with young people to reflect on their reasons for gaming and what they learn.
- The Gamewise Practitioner badge allows youth workers to explore how games can support youth work themes.
- The Strategic Playmaker badge for youth work managers to reflect on the role of games in strategic development.
Claim open badge recognition
Upon completing the activities, participants can claim digital badges recognising their competence in:
- Using games for digital learning and social connection
- Engaging with games as tools in youth work practice and
- Strategically integrating games into youth work development.
Who created this resource?
This activity is based on the cooperative game SpaceTeam by Sleeping Beast Games. The Cities of Learning Network members used the game to create activities supporting digital youth work developments:
- Awero, Lithuania (Project Lead)
- Breakthrough Foundation, Netherlands
- Curaçao Innovation & Technology Institute (CITI)
- TiPovej! Zavod - Institute for Creative Society, Slovenia
Next steps: Try more multiplayer or co-op games with friends or colleagues. Explore how other games might support creativity, inclusion, or social impact.
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Exploring learning and teamwork through games: Playing SpaceTeam
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Digital Youth Work Resource Hub
Awero not-for-profit organisation manages this platform and develops it together with leading educational organisations. The European Union's programme Erasmus+ granted co-funding for building the first version of this platform. Contact support@awero.org.
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