TY - GEN
T1 - Serious games in a European policy context
AU - Mayer, Igor
AU - Riedel, Johann C.K.H.
AU - Hauge, Jannicke Baalsrud
AU - Bellotti, Francesco
AU - De Gloria, Alessandro
AU - Ott, Michela
AU - Petersen, Sobah Abbas
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - The authors analyze the policy discourse on the utility of games for society at the level of the European Union, and for five EU countries, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy and Norway. The ongoing study is part of a Research Roadmap developed within the GALA Network of Excellence on Serious Games (2010-2014, EU FP7). The authors identify four policy discourses on the utility of serious games that they label as Technology Enhanced Learning; Creative Innovation; Social Inclusion and Empowerment and Complex Systems. The polcies applicable to SGs in the five European countries are briely described and compared. It was seen that some countries have explicit policies for SGs (the Netherlands, Germany); whereas most of the countries only have implicit policies not directly addressing SGs but which can be used to support SGs development and use.
AB - The authors analyze the policy discourse on the utility of games for society at the level of the European Union, and for five EU countries, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy and Norway. The ongoing study is part of a Research Roadmap developed within the GALA Network of Excellence on Serious Games (2010-2014, EU FP7). The authors identify four policy discourses on the utility of serious games that they label as Technology Enhanced Learning; Creative Innovation; Social Inclusion and Empowerment and Complex Systems. The polcies applicable to SGs in the five European countries are briely described and compared. It was seen that some countries have explicit policies for SGs (the Netherlands, Germany); whereas most of the countries only have implicit policies not directly addressing SGs but which can be used to support SGs development and use.
KW - Creative industries
KW - European Union
KW - Germany
KW - Innovation Policy
KW - Italy
KW - Netherlands
KW - Norway
KW - Policy Discourse
KW - Serious Games
KW - UK
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-40790-1_32
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-40790-1_32
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84885201674
SN - 9783642407895
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 307
EP - 320
BT - Serious Games Development and Applications - 4th International Conference, SGDA 2013, Proceedings
T2 - 4th International Conference on Serious Games Development and Applications, SGDA 2013
Y2 - 25 September 2013 through 27 September 2013
ER -