Multiplier Event by University of Lodz was conducted during The 7th Intelligent Development Forum 6-7 June 2022. The Forum is the perfect place to share the results within the local administration representatives that are responsible for the middle and high schools in their areas. There were also representatives of the Universities and central government as well as the research and development agencies. It was chosen carefully as a best place in the end of the project to present the result of the JEU project to the biggest community. The Intelligent Development Forum is a "unique congress of the future", i.e. a unique scientific and technological event dedicated to the dissemination of innovative scientific research and innovative technologies that have a great chance for market success and improving the standard and safety of our lives now or in the coming years. The 7th Forum was organized 6-7 June 2022 in Uniejów Poland. The Congress serves the purpose of establishing lasting relations between visionary entrepreneurs, and outstanding Polish scientists focused in their actions on cooperation with business, investors and local government officials who create attractive conditions for locating business in their regions. The show about the outcomes of the Erasmus+ JEU project for the audience from 1pm till 7 pm at 6 June 2022 run by Piotr Milczarski and associates. Poster and 10 minutes speech about the results of the JEU Citizen Games project was delivered by Dr Piotr Milczarski from University of Lodz, Poland: „Citizen Games - Poważne gry pomocą w rozwiązywaniu problemów społecznych” "Citizen Games - Serious games as a help in solving social problems" During the Forum the games #YouToo and Gender Adventure produced by the consortium JEU were presented to the visitors representing: local and central administration as well (responsible for the middle and high schools), high schools and academies, Universities, R&D companies etc. There were 39 of them that played a full game and left comments on it as well as left their data and signatures. Several others played the game but the didn’t leave their data. (Annex with signatures) Agenda https://irforum.pl/agenda-2022/

On Wednesday, 13 April, Hans vd Velden and Dik Bol of Stedenband Haarlem-Mutare participated in the sold-out National Conference Game Didactics 2022. There they gave a workshop about the serious games that Haarlem-Mutare is developing in an Erasmus+ setting. The national gaming conference was organized for the sixth time and had 220 visitors, mainly teachers, students and developers of educational games. This conference is a joint initiative of Hogeschool Utrecht (Learn by Games) and SAGANET, the Association for Serious Games and Simulations in the broadest sense of the word.
In the afternoon there was a game market where game organizers presented themselves; this was followed by about thirty workshops.
The workshop Hans and Dik gave for 20 interested teachers and professionals was about ‘#YouToo,’ an interactive educational game about cyberbullying, and it also showed a test version of ‘Gender Adventure,’ a game that is still in full development. With these educational games Haarlem-Mutare City Twinning is committed to a safe learning environment for children. The games – currently trial versions – are developed in the European education project ‘Citizen Games’ and are based on input from three NGOs from France and the Netherlands and five higher education institutions in Belgium, Germany, Poland, Ireland and Portugal. Free test lessons are now being taught in these countries. In Haarlem, a Stedenband team is managing these tests. The educational aim of the games is a discussion about cyberbullying and gender discrimination with pupils inside and outside secondary school and with youth workers and their pupils. There is a supporting website, teacher's manual and e-learning module. These are available in Dutch, English, German, Polish, French and Portuguese. The project is funded by Erasmus+.

Yes! 42 students, staff members from their universities and from the three partner NGOs are being warmly hosted by ISPGaya, in Porto, for 10 days of intensive work and fun. Students are teaming up to come up with the best possible idea of a serious game on fighting extremism, plastic soup or gender discriminations in public places. The greatest game concept will then become a complete educational tool for high-school students accross Europe.

The mobility was online and it was fun! 43 students took part in virtual training sessions, which occured prior the mobility, and in the mobility. Before the mobility, the students participated in introductory modules on the three topics that had been selected from a survey of middle-school pupils: plastic soup ; rights and duties of the European citizen ; and cybersexism. During the mobility, the college student were put into teams. Each team included students from different colleges and from different areas of study. Each team elaborated an idea and created a demo of a serious game on one of the three topics. After an intensive week of hard work and fun moments together, each team presented their finished serious game proposal to an independent jury of NGO and academic experts. The winning game idea will now be used as the foundation stone upon which our consortium develops a serious game. This game will be tested in high schools across Europe. The aim of the game is that the player will combat cyberharrassment and cybersexism by impersonating a range of heroic characters. More to come soon!

The winning team’s serious game idea from our online eMobility (which took place from 15th to 20th March 2020) has now been developed into a full game. The game consists of three levels. While playing, middle-school pupils impersonate a dragon, a princess and a knight. They fight against cyberharrassment and cybersexism, and they promote positivity. The game is being tested accross Europe. The feedback will be used to improve the game before it is placed on general release across Europe and the world! In parallel with the testing, the partner NGOs are working on a teacher’s manual and a e-learning module. Both of these will be released with the final version of the game.

It had been long months of online calls to finalise the middle-school game, #YouToo! The Citizen Games project partners have finally met again in person in Haarlem, the Netherlands, for their 5th transnational meeting. On 2nd and 3rd of December, they have prepared for the mobility event of January 2022. During this event in Porto, Portugal, 42 students from the partner universities will gather for 10 days in order to create serious game prototypes for high-school students. Three topics will be offered: waste management, gender discrimination in public places, fighting against extremisms.