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SGEED-2010  

Serious Games, Education & Economic Development 

Ioannina, Greece 

July 7 - 9, 2010 

Serious Games 

Serious games comprise an innovative field of research and economic activity, which attracts diverse stakeholders. Serious games have significant potential to generate growth and innovation in South East Europe. In particular serious games development offer the potential for technology catch up and capability build up.

Purpose

The purpose of the Conference is fivefold: 

1. Bring together game developers, academics, users and regional development experts and policy makers for networking and for identifying opportunities for future synergies 
2. Demonstrate achievements, such as Serious Games applications and solutions, project results and learning services   
3. Discuss the use of Serious Games in education (and other areas, such as health care and public services), present use cases, explore underlying issues with experts and users and trigger fruitful discussions 
4. Promote Serious Games as factor of regional economic development, and   
5. Award the prizes to the winners of the 1^st European Best Learning Game Competition (http://www.serious-gaming.info/6_-_Best_Learning_Game_Competition).

English is the official language of the Conference 

The Conference focuses on the following thematic areas: 

1.    Societal and business issues of serious games 

n  Growth potential, macro-trends & market forecasts 

n  Analysing the complementary skills and inputs required 

n  Successful cluster and communities in Europe 

n  Impact of serious games on learning 

n  Impact of serious games on innovation, regional development, competitiveness 

n  The viewpoint of users (schools, universities, training centers, companies) 

n  The viewpoint of a developer / entrepreneur 

2.     Demonstration of serious games applications in different fields  

n  Learning, Training 

n  Health care 

n  Social awareness 

n  Cultural heritage  

n  Public administration / Government 

3.    Design, technologies and methodologies for serious games  

n  Storytelling, scenarios & scripts  

n  Multi-disciplinary inputs for serious games production 

n  Implementing learning functionalities & content  

n  Evaluation and assessment methodologies  

n  Game programming 

n  Development platforms, tools and systems for serious games  

n  Artificial intelligence in serious games  

n  Simulation, graphics & visualisation  

n  Mobile gaming

Who should attend

n Representatives of local & regional political institutions 

n Education professionals, pedagogy academics & researchers, teachers & trainers 

n Game developers, graphics designers, programmers & publishers 

n Serious Games experts & innovators

n Students of IT & pedagogy departments

Why attend

n Foster personal knowledge on the field of serious games 

nmNetwork with regional development experts, entrepreneurs, trainers,  developers, users and regional policy experts 

n Get inspired by new ideas and investigate the development of new partnerships 

n Gain perspective on the state of the art and  emerging trends 

n Present teaching and training methods and experiences 

n Present research results and get ideas for future research

Organizing Committee  

Conference chair: Mrs.Aikaterini Filippou-Keramida (BIC of Epirus)   

Programme committee:   

• Dr. Yiannis Pappas (PROMEA - Hellenic Society for the Promotion of Research and Development Methodologies)    
• Prof. Luigi Anolli, Dr. Fabrizia Mantovani, Dr. Linda Confalonieri (University of Milano Bicocca)  
• Mr. Nicola Padovani, Mr. Matteo Uggeri (Politecnico di Milano - Centro METID) 

Organizing team:   

Mrs. Vassiliki Paroutiadou,   

Mrs. Alexia Gidari,   

Mrs. Amalia Tzimogianni.   

Mrs. Konstantina Oikonomou (BIC of Epirus).   

Contact details:  

Mrs. Vassiliki Paroutiadou & Mrs. Amalia Tzimogianni   

(bicepirus@ioa.forthnet.gr)