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

Informations projet

EPIC-WE

N° de convention de subvention: 101095058

DOI

10.3030/101095058

Projet clôturé

Date de signature de la CE 12 Decembre 2022

Date de début 1 Mars 2023

Date de fin 28 Février 2026

Financé au titre de

• Culture, creativity and inclusive society

Coût total

€ 3 072 828,75

Contribution de l’UE

€ 3 072 828,75

Coordonné par

AARHUS UNIVERSITET
Denmark

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Livrables

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

Auteurs: Maria Gonçalves; Inês Nunes; Pedro Fernandes; Conceição Costa
Publié dans: European Conference on Games Based Learning 2024, Numéro 18, 2024, ISSN 2049-0992
Éditeur: Conference on Games Based Learning
DOI: 10.34190/ECGBL.18.1.2673

Creative Toying with Cultural Heritage in Game Jams

Auteurs: Eva Eriksson, Kim Holflod, Rikke Toft Nørgård
Publié dans: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Game Jams, Hackathons and Game Creation Events, 2025
Éditeur: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3697789.3697795

ÓBIDOS LAGOON SUSTAINABILITY AND BIODIVERSITY - SDG GAME JAM MODEL

Auteurs: Wilson Almeida, Filipe Luz, Inês Nunes, Micaela Fonseca
Publié dans: EDULEARN Proceedings, EDULEARN25 Proceedings, Numéro 1, 2025, ISSN 2340-1117
Éditeur: IATED
DOI: 10.21125/EDULEARN.2025.0804

Creative Toying with Cultural Heritage in Game Jams

Auteurs: Eva Eriksson, Kim Holflod, Rikke Toft Nørgård
Publié dans: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Game Jams, Hackathons and Game Creation Events, 2025
Éditeur: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3697789.3697795

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

Auteurs: Krawczyk, S., Nørgård, R. T., Holflod, K., Groen, M., Lopes, P.
Publié dans: Conference Proceedings of DiGRA 2026: Intersectional Pleasures. Digital Games Research Association-DiGRA., 2026
Éditeur: DiGRA

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

Auteurs: Kim Holflod; Rikke Toft Nørgård; Eva Eriksson
Publié dans: Proceedings of the 18th European Conference on Games Based Learning, Numéro Vol 18 N1, 2024
Éditeur: European Conference on Games Based Learning
DOI: 10.34190/ecgbl.18.1.2812

Jamming with Culture - Piloting Cultural Game Jam with Youth

Auteurs: Eva Eriksson, Kim Holflod, Rikke Toft Nørgård
Publié dans: Proceedings of the 23rd Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference, 2024
Éditeur: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3628516.3659424

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

Auteurs: Nørgård, Rikke Toft; Holflod, Kim; Eriksson, Eva; Hansen, Em Achilleus
Publié dans: NordMedia2025
Éditeur: Aarhus University

Book chapters (2)

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

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

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

Auteurs: Nørgård, R.T., Holflod, K., Carayannis, E.
Publié dans: Towards the Placeful University Transformative Places and Spaces in Higher Education, ISSN 2366-2581
Éditeur: Springer

Peer reviewed articles (7)

Cultural Game Jam Model: A Quadruple Helix Intervention

Auteurs: Filipe Luz, Wilson Almeida, Pedro Fernandes, Micaela Fonseca
Publié dans: European Conference on Games Based Learning, Numéro 18, 2024, ISSN 2049-100X
Éditeur: Academic Conferences International Ltd
DOI: 10.34190/ecgbl.18.1.2642

Editorial: Games with a Societal Agenda, Values and Culture

Auteurs: Costa, C., Nørgård, R.T.
Publié dans: International Journal of Games and Social Impact,, 2025, ISSN 2975-8386
Éditeur: Lusófona University
DOI: 10.60543/IJGSI.V3.N2.E

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

Auteurs: Conceição Costa, Kim Holflod, Rikke Toft Nørgård, Maria Gonçalves, Inês Nunes, Pedro Fernandes
Publié dans: Games and Culture, 2025, ISSN 1555-4120
Éditeur: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/15554120251382358

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

Auteurs: De Assis, F., Costa, M., Gonçalves, M., Nunes, I.
Publié dans: International Journal of Games and Social Impact,, Numéro 3-25, 2025, ISSN 2975-8386
Éditeur: Edições Universitárias Lusófonas
DOI: 10.60543/IJGSI.V3.N2.04

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

Auteurs: Rikke Toft Nørgård, Kim Holflod
Publié dans: Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2024, ISSN 0013-1857
Éditeur: Informa UK Limited
DOI: 10.1080/00131857.2024.2384722

Game‐Making for Cultural Change and Empowered Youth Participation

Auteurs: Kim Holflod, Carlo De Gaetano, Conceição Costa, Filipe Luz, Maarten Groen, Rikke Toft Nørgård
Publié dans: Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, Numéro 42, 2026, ISSN 0266-4909
Éditeur: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/JCAL.70197

Designing with Ambiguity: Iterating Equity in Game Jam Design

Auteurs: Holflod, K., Eriksson, E., Hansen, E. A.
Publié dans: International Journal of Games and Social Impact, Numéro 3-25, 2025, ISSN 2975-8386
Éditeur: Lusófona University
DOI: 10.60543/IJGSI.V3.N2.03