Attendance is free of charge, but registration is required.
Deadline: January 23.
We are thrilled to invite you to EPIC-WE Legacies, a landmark event celebrating the achievements, results, innovations, impact, recommendations, and future potentials of the EPIC-WE Europe Horizon project (2023-2026).
This is your chance to gather with fellow partners and participants from the cultural sector, creative industries, higher education institutions, and with youth actors to experience, play with, activate, and expand the legacy of EPIC-WE’s accomplishments.
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Over the last.3 years, EPIC-WE has delivered a validated, transferable models, frameworks, and formats for cross-sector collaboration between youth (15-25 years), cultural heritage institutions, creative industries, and higher education institutions in 3 European Cultural Hubs resulting in 12 Cultural Game Jams with more than 400 youth creating more than 100 Games through/for Culture.
By attending EPIC-WE Legacies, you will leave not just inspired, but equipped – with open-access toolkits, methods, cross-sector insight, and the energy to seed cultural ecosystems, hubs, game jams and game-making in culture, industry, and education. Let’s carry forward the “epic we” together: strengthening youth as game-makers and culture-makers, reinforcing participatory cross-sector co-creation, and embedding value-driven heritage-empowered games in Europe’s cultural future. We look forward to welcoming you in Aarhus and as part of an epic we.
10:00-11:30: EPIC-WE Artwalk & Games through Culture Expo
ARoS Art Museum: Experience the art and collections that young people have engaged to create Games through Culture. Get introduced to and try the games.
11:30-12:45: Walk to AIAS, Lunch & Legacies
AIAS, Aarhus University: Catch your lunch while walking the EPIC-WE Wall of Legacies and sharing your perspectives in the EPIC-WE Policy Corner.
12:45-16:00: EPIC-WE Conference Part 1 – Knowledge & Innovations
AIAS, Aarhus University: Get state-of-the-art, key research results, and core innovations of the EPIC-WE project: QH Cultural Hubs, Cultural Game Jams, Games through/for Culture, and youths empowered participation through game-making as culture-making.
16:30-18:00: EPIC-WE Games through Culture Expo & Drinks reception
ARoS Art Museum: Experience first-hand what games based on cultural heritage look like. Meet some of the young cultural game jam teams behind the EPIC-WE Games through Culture and try their games yourself.
09:00-12:00: EPIC-WE Conference Part 2 – Impact, Recommendations & Youth Empowerment
AIAS, Aarhus University: Learn about key recommendations for future practices, discover the project’s impact, and engage with partners from cultural heritage, game industries, education, and youth that share and reflect on key insights, potentials, and take-aways.
12:00-13:15: Lunch & Legacies, Walk to Filmby Aarhus
AIAS, Aarhus University: Catch your lunch while walking the EPIC-WE Wall of Legacies and sharing your perspectives in the EPIC-WE Policy Corner.
13:15-16:00: Create the Legacy in the EPIC-WE Capacity Building Workshop
Filmby Aarhus: Join the workshop to learn from the experts and hear the stories from EPIC-WE youth as co-creators of European Culture. Get your hands on the toolkits and models and discuss cross-sector collaboration in culture, games, and education.
16:00-18:00: EPIC-WE Games for Culture Expo & Networking drinks reception
Filmby Aarhus: Continue the discussion. Try Games for Culture aiming for value-driven change or giving new perspectives on youth, culture, and society. Meet teams behind prototype games from the Cultural Game Jams and featured games co-created with game companies. Explore with us the art of game-making.
Associate Professor
Mail: rtoft@edu.au.dk
Phone: +4520466756
Website: www.epic-we.eu
The project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under grant agreement N°101095058
