The training approach will be based on the identification of user profiles and elaboration of the training needs. For this project partners had designed User Profiles, for a previous Erasmus project (the InScreenMode) based on the European Internet Research by the Nottingham Trent University. The User Profiles captured the individual characteristics of the adults which are meaningful in terms of Internet usage patterns of risk.

The potentially risky behaviours are already known from relevant research through the Safer Internet EU initiative: the partners of the GameOFF project will use these profiles as the basis to elaborate a quantitative research approach to validate the findings with the project’s target group (young people of 16-25 years old). The partners will create surveys that will be widely distributed across partner countries. These surveys will aim at validating the results with the project’s target group, and also to identify the situation in the partner countries, with a focus on France, Portugal, and Spain, that have not been represented in the previous projects.

Then, the partners who have long experience in providing high-quality training will identify with the guidance of the field expert, NTU, the training needs and requirements of the target group. Based on these all partners will design and create the content of a serious game that will be used by trainers to encourage trainees to moderate their screen time.