On Thursday, March 5, students from the Ludo Skills programme had the opportunity to present the initiative to visitors from APPC (Asociația Părinți pentru Copii), who were attending a training activity at Colegio Jesuitinas in Valladolid.
For more than two hours, English became the shared language at Universidad Europea Miguel de Cervantes (UEMC), creating a valuable space for communication, exchange, and mutual learning. The session brought together two generations and two countries, strengthening the human connections that educational projects like PLAY2DISC aim to promote.
The activity was coordinated by the representatives of both project partners, APPC and Ludus Magnus, and served as a preliminary step toward the workshops planned within the PLAY2DISC project. Beyond presenting the programme itself, the meeting offered a real-life opportunity to foster dialogue, participation, and collaboration in an international context.
For the students involved in Ludo Skills, the experience was especially meaningful. The programme, developed by the LudIA research group at UEMC, focuses on strengthening soft skills through the structured use of modern board games. By explaining their work, interacting in English, and engaging with international visitors, the students were able to reinforce precisely the kind of social and communication skills that lie at the heart of the programme.
Actions like this one show that projects such as PLAY2DISC are not only about ideas on paper, but about creating authentic opportunities for people to connect, learn from one another, and grow together through meaningful, non-digital interaction.
At Ludus Magnus, we believe that these small but meaningful encounters are exactly where European cooperation becomes real.
