The kick-off meeting for the NewsArcade Classroom – "Seriously Play the News in the Classroom!" project took place on January 22–23 in Nicosia, Cyprus. Hosted at the headquarters of DIAS PUBLISHING PUBLIC, the project coordinator, the meeting brought together consortium members, including:
🇩🇰 PORTAPLAY APS (Denmark)
🇩🇪 IN2 DIGITAL INNOVATIONS GMBH (Germany)
🇫🇷 Association Pour l'Éducation aux Médias (France)
🇩🇰 International People's College (Denmark)
🇵🇹 Universidade Lusófona (Portugal)
Building on the success of the original NewsArcade project, which introduced a gamified approach to news content to enhance young adults’ media literacy, NewsArcade Classroom takes this concept further. This new initiative shifts the focus entirely to education, adapting and optimizing both the format and its authoring tool specifically for classroom use.
The project, funded by Creative Europe – MEDIA, will run for 24 months, aiming to equip educators with innovative tools to engage students in critical news consumption through interactive gameplay.