After two months of public voting, the EduCITY project wins 1st Prize in the Innovation for Creative Cities category for the INOVA+ Award,
CESAM is one of four research units at the University of Aveiro (CIDTFF, CESAM, IEETA and DIGIMedia), involved in this project, coordinated by Lúcia Pombo (CIDTFF/DEP).
The INOVA + Award is highly sponsored by the President of the Republic and aims to distinguish solutions that respond to societal challenges with an impact on territories and fall within the S+T+ARTS (Science, Technology and Arts) concept. The Prize will be awarded at a private event on October 25th at Four Points by Sheraton, in Matosinhos.
The EduCITY team developed an open platform that allows the creation of mobile games and augmented reality content by users without programming skills, which can be used in the city of Aveiro, but also in any city in the world.
The app that brings together these educational games can be explored on walks around any city, using “learning by doing” strategies, in which interdisciplinary games in augmented reality allow for environmental awareness in the city, where citizens are “active scientists” and agents of sustainable changes, within a logic of citizen science.
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