SERIOUS GAMES. The Council of Europe Cultural Routes Summer Seminar Bad Iburg, Osnabruck, Germany 1-5 June 2015

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1 The Council of Europe Cultural Routes Summer Seminar SERIOUS GAMES Intern at the European Institute of Cultural Routes

2 SERIOUS GAMES AN INCREASINGLY WIDESPREAD WAY TO LEARN AND PLAY AT THE SAME TIME

3 SERIOUS GAMES AND CULTURAL ROUTES

4 The Cultural Routes propose different types of serious games on their web sites or physical sites with this concept of «learning game» intended for visitors of all ages who want to learn things in a pleasant way.

5 EXAMPLES OF 6 ROUTES PROPOSING SERIOUS GAMES

village Waldensberg, Wächtersbach, Germany.

6 The Huguenot and Waldensian Trail: One of their partners (the Waldensian- association of the Waldensian colony Waldensberg ) implemented a geocaching game in the surroundings of the waldensian village Waldensberg, Wächtersbach, Germany. The geocache includes several questions referring to the history of colony and the Waldensian people, that settled in the area as well as to the Cultural Route itself.

7 El Legado Andalusi: A video game for children about Andalusian heritage is proposed on their website. You can also find it within the headquarter at Pabellón al-andalus y la Ciencia in Granada.

Olive Tree Route: On their website we can

8 Olive Tree Route: On their website we can find a special page dedicated to children with different competitions like drawing the most beautiful olive tree or writing the best recipe based on the olives or olive oil as well as a board game about the olive.

their website they propose different online serious

9 Réseau Art Nouveau Network: Each week a question-quiz is proposed on the facebook page of the route, and on their website they propose different online serious games like the construction of an Art Nouveau building.

Transromanica also implemented the construction of a castle realized exclusively with medieval methods

10 Transromanica: A quiz about the cultural route was proposed during the International Tourism Fair ITB in Berlin this year. Transromanica also implemented the construction of a castle realized exclusively with medieval methods and tools in Friesach (Austria). Visitors can watch the craftsmen in their laborious activities, rediscover lost knowledge and learn from the past. It will last for approximately 30 years.

The European Cemeteries Route: Primary schools visited their local cemetery Cemetery Pobrežje, Maribor, Slovenia by using smart phones and mobile guide ARtour.

11 The European Cemeteries Route: Primary schools visited their local cemetery Cemetery Pobrežje, Maribor, Slovenia by using smart phones and mobile guide ARtour. During the exploration children discussed about the burial customs and rituals, cultural diversity. A special set of points was prepared, which included hints and geographical location of the monument or grave. To get the full name of the person and discover some other details, pupils had to find the grave by using map mode.

12 SERIOUS GAMES AND OTHER CULTURAL BODIES

13 Numerous other cultural actors propose or are the object of serious games. Their aims is to increase their attractiveness, to vary the ways to learn and discover them as well as their topics or activities. For instance: tourist offices, cities, regions, European institutions

14 European institutions: The Council of Europe as well as other European institutions like the European Central Bank propose online serious games to get pleasantly information. Example with a serious game of the ECB about the provenance of coins:

15 Regions and cities are also producers of serious games. For instance a video game Vivre l Europe en Alsace was implemented to discover the Alsace Region and Strasbourg as well as its culture, and its important role within Europe but also to learn the European history and construction through the heritage by an innovative way. The player has to answer questions about Europe to discover the city and the region through a travel on a barge on the Rhine. Thus, it deals with different aspects: promotion of economy and tourism, European history, European identity of the Alsace Region.

16 In Belgium, four villages created a board game Mission terroir to make discover their region through questions about this territory and missions to carry out.

the city by answering questions about the most important places of the city, its

17 Another increasingly used way to discover cities through serious games is the mobile phone apps: The tourist office of the city Arles in France proposes an apps to visit the city by answering questions about the most important places of the city, its history. The website Hiddencity offers the same concept in Manchester, London, York and Brighton.

18 The objective now is to implement serious games common to several cultural routes to promote heritage in an innovative way and attract even more people, reinforce the link between the cultural routes.

NEMO POLICY STATEMENT

NEMO POLICY STATEMENT WHO WE ARE The Network of European Museum Organisations (NEMO) was founded in 1992 as an independent network of national museum organisations representing the museum community of