Empowered Participation through Ideating Cultural Worlds and Environments: youth imagining, creating and exchanging cultural values and heritage through game-making

Project Information

EPIC-WE

Grant agreement ID: 101095058

DOI

10.3030/101095058

Project closed

EC signature date 12 December 2022

Start date 1 March 2023

End date 28 February 2026

Funded under

• Culture, creativity and inclusive society

Total cost

€ 3 072 828,75

EU contribution

€ 3 072 828,75

Coordinated by

AARHUS UNIVERSITET
Denmark

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Deliverables

Documents, reports (13)

Synthesis of EPIC-WE outcomes

The synthesis describes the results of the data collected from the 12 interventions to identify good practices that demonstrate the value of cultural game jams and game-making in helix ecosystems and is in the form of a white paper.

State-of-the-art report

The report contains the results of the PRISMA2020 systematic literature review and is in the form of a white paper.

Protocols for carrying out cultural game jams in local sites

Protocols detail the overall procedures, structure and step-by-step process of setting up local ecosystems and carrying out interventions in the form of local cultural game jams.

Report on policy advocacy

Summary of policy advocacy initiatives and presentation of key conclusions from the policy workshop. Published on project website and distributed widely through EPIC-WE resource website, concluding events and elsewhere.

Report on quadruple helix operationalisation

Report on quadruple helix operationalization

Protocols for carrying out cultural game jams across local sites
Report on final conference

Showcase of presentations from the EPIC-WE final conference and events, and summary of the main discussions from the final conference. Published on project website and distributed widely through EPIC-WE resource website, concluding events and elsewhere.

Report on good practices for CHI, CI, HEI and youth

The report will review at least 40 practitioner generated existing practices for: (i) collaborative game-making, (ii) youth engagement via participatory methods, and (ii) value-creation via quadruple helix framework.

Publication on impact

A short publication in the format of a guide to assist with valid KPI’s, data collection etc. and effective showcase the impact of efforts.

Report on impact of game jams

A brief overview and analysis of results from 12 cultural game jams on the local-glocal sites and at least 30 testimonials from CHI, CI, HEI and youth stakeholders.

Report on game-making interventions with youth in cultural heritage institutions
Report on local and external sites concluding events

Showcase of presentations from the three local EPIC-WE local and two external EPIC-WE sites concluding events, as well as a summary of key conclusions from the events. Published on project website and distributed widely through EPIC-WE resource website, concluding events and elsewhere.

Report on design and construction of ecosystems and game jams

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (5)

Second Policy briefs

Second policy brief from second Policy Round Table. Published on project website and distributed widely through EPIC-WE resource website, concluding events and elsewhere.

First Policy briefs

First policy brief from first Policy Round Table. Published on project website and distributed widely through EPIC-WE resource website, concluding events and elsewhere.

Visual identity and project website

Project brand image guidelines, templates for communication material (digital and print format), templates for presentations, deliverables and website.

Third Policy brief

Thrid policy brief from third Policy Round Table. Published on project website and distributed widely through EPIC-WE resource website, concluding events and elsewhere.

Project communication video

Short, animated video to present the EPIC-WE project for communication and dissemination purposes, outlining the core objectives and activities of the project in an engaging way.

Demonstrators, pilots, prototypes (2)

EPIC-WE ecosystems, design kits

2 EPIC-WE ecosystems and 4 EPIC-WE design kits for creating local and glocal cooperation and co-creation amongst CHI, CI, HEI and youth respectively. Published on the EPIC-WE resource website under creative commons.

EPIC-WE games collections

Publication of 84 youth games from local and glocal cultural game jams across three European sites along with 6 games selected from the youth games and further developed by CI partners. All games are published on the EPIC-WE ressource website and under creative commons

Publications

Conference proceedings (8)

What is “Learning” in Serious Game Jams? A Systematic Literature Review

Author(s): Maria Gonçalves; Inês Nunes; Pedro Fernandes; Conceição Costa
Published in: European Conference on Games Based Learning 2024, Issue 18, 2024, ISSN 2049-0992
Publisher: Conference on Games Based Learning
DOI: 10.34190/ECGBL.18.1.2673

Creative Toying with Cultural Heritage in Game Jams

Author(s): Eva Eriksson, Kim Holflod, Rikke Toft Nørgård
Published in: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Game Jams, Hackathons and Game Creation Events, 2025
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3697789.3697795

ÓBIDOS LAGOON SUSTAINABILITY AND BIODIVERSITY - SDG GAME JAM MODEL

Author(s): Wilson Almeida, Filipe Luz, Inês Nunes, Micaela Fonseca
Published in: EDULEARN Proceedings, EDULEARN25 Proceedings, Issue 1, 2025, ISSN 2340-1117
Publisher: IATED
DOI: 10.21125/EDULEARN.2025.0804

Creative Toying with Cultural Heritage in Game Jams

Author(s): Eva Eriksson, Kim Holflod, Rikke Toft Nørgård
Published in: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Game Jams, Hackathons and Game Creation Events, 2025
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3697789.3697795

Games with Culture: Using Cultural Heritage as Game-Making Material.

Author(s): Krawczyk, S., Nørgård, R. T., Holflod, K., Groen, M., Lopes, P.
Published in: Conference Proceedings of DiGRA 2026: Intersectional Pleasures. Digital Games Research Association-DiGRA., 2026
Publisher: DiGRA

Community, Socialisation, and Empowerment in Cultural Game Jams with Youth Citizens

Author(s): Kim Holflod; Rikke Toft Nørgård; Eva Eriksson
Published in: Proceedings of the 18th European Conference on Games Based Learning, Issue Vol 18 N1, 2024
Publisher: European Conference on Games Based Learning
DOI: 10.34190/ecgbl.18.1.2812

Jamming with Culture - Piloting Cultural Game Jam with Youth

Author(s): Eva Eriksson, Kim Holflod, Rikke Toft Nørgård
Published in: Proceedings of the 23rd Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference, 2024
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3628516.3659424

Cultural Game Jams: Inclusive, pluriversal, and transversal design approaches in game jams

Author(s): Nørgård, Rikke Toft; Holflod, Kim; Eriksson, Eva; Hansen, Em Achilleus
Published in: NordMedia2025
Publisher: Aarhus University

Book chapters (2)

Game Jams and Game-Making with a Societal and Cultural Agenda for Youth

Author(s): Conceição Costa, Maria Gonçalves, Inês Nunes, Pedro Fernandes
Published in: Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, Proceedings of 19th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (CISTI 2024), 2026
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-12885-0_16

The Hubversity: Placeful Universities in Quadruple Helix QH Cultural Hubs.

Author(s): Nørgård, R.T., Holflod, K., Carayannis, E.
Published in: Towards the Placeful University Transformative Places and Spaces in Higher Education, ISSN 2366-2581
Publisher: Springer

Peer reviewed articles (7)

Cultural Game Jam Model: A Quadruple Helix Intervention

Author(s): Filipe Luz, Wilson Almeida, Pedro Fernandes, Micaela Fonseca
Published in: European Conference on Games Based Learning, Issue 18, 2024, ISSN 2049-100X
Publisher: Academic Conferences International Ltd
DOI: 10.34190/ecgbl.18.1.2642

Editorial: Games with a Societal Agenda, Values and Culture

Author(s): Costa, C., Nørgård, R.T.
Published in: International Journal of Games and Social Impact,, 2025, ISSN 2975-8386
Publisher: Lusófona University
DOI: 10.60543/IJGSI.V3.N2.E

Exploring Cultural Game-Making With Youth: A 20-Year Systematic Review

Author(s): Conceição Costa, Kim Holflod, Rikke Toft Nørgård, Maria Gonçalves, Inês Nunes, Pedro Fernandes
Published in: Games and Culture, 2025, ISSN 1555-4120
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/15554120251382358

Heroes, Helpers, and Villains: Representations of the Carnation Revolution through Cultural Game Jam Outputs.

Author(s): De Assis, F., Costa, M., Gonçalves, M., Nunes, I.
Published in: International Journal of Games and Social Impact,, Issue 3-25, 2025, ISSN 2975-8386
Publisher: Edições Universitárias Lusófonas
DOI: 10.60543/IJGSI.V3.N2.04

Meeting in the middle: Cultural co-creation, transformative partnerships, and ecosystems for public good

Author(s): Rikke Toft Nørgård, Kim Holflod
Published in: Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2024, ISSN 0013-1857
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
DOI: 10.1080/00131857.2024.2384722

Game‐Making for Cultural Change and Empowered Youth Participation

Author(s): Kim Holflod, Carlo De Gaetano, Conceição Costa, Filipe Luz, Maarten Groen, Rikke Toft Nørgård
Published in: Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, Issue 42, 2026, ISSN 0266-4909
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/JCAL.70197

Designing with Ambiguity: Iterating Equity in Game Jam Design

Author(s): Holflod, K., Eriksson, E., Hansen, E. A.
Published in: International Journal of Games and Social Impact, Issue 3-25, 2025, ISSN 2975-8386
Publisher: Lusófona University
DOI: 10.60543/IJGSI.V3.N2.03