At STRATEGIES we are very pleased to share the news that our project is featured in a new booklet about Horizon Europe projects concerning Cultural Heritage and Cultural Creative Industries.

‘Driving a green, digital & innovative European cultural heritage’ showcases the research projects from the 2023 call for proposals in the Horizon Work Programme, Cluster 2: “Culture, Creativity & Inclusive Society”: Innovative research on European cultural heritage and the cultural and creative industries, building our future from the past.

The STRATEGIES project - a Sustainable Transition for Europe’s Game Industries - welcomes new researchers to our team. We are growing our expertise in games and sustainability, and supporting the next generation of researchers to make a difference.

Policy makers, researchers and activists don’t really leave their own realities to visit the crazy multiverse of gaming. At the same time, game developers often think sustainability is about trowing plastic bottles in the recycling or about putting windmills in a grid. We need to bridge this divide if games are going to mean something for our collective futures. Change makers and game developers need to actually step into each other’s worlds.

STRATEGIES researcher, Joost Vervoort, has recently published results arising from a previous Horizon project, CreaTures. The paper explains 9 dimensions for evaluating the link between creative practices and sustainability transformations. CreaTures is one of the research projects exploring creative practice out of which our STRATEGIES research programme has grown.

The STRATEGIES project formally begins on Wednesday 17th April with our two-day kick-off event at Utrecht University. The event includes a public presentation of the project, the book launch of Ecogames: Playful Perspectives on the Climate Crisis, the academic volume that prompted the creation of our consortium, and a planning meeting for all project partners.

We are happy to announce the publication of our book Ecogames: Playful Perspectives on the Climate Crisis (Amsterdam University Press 2024), edited by Laura op de Beke, Joost Raessens, Stefan Werning, and Gerald Farca. The book will be available open access from 19-01-2024 at the website of AUP.