JamTodayMatteo Uggeri

Fondazione Politecnico di Milano9-12 June 2015, Barcelona

Background and introduction• The Jam Today network is funded under the CIP programme of EU, has 25

partners and runs from 2013 to 2016.• Main topics are applied/serious games and game jams.• Each year, JamToday organizes ‘serious’ game jams across Europe around

a specific theme. – 2014: Improving ICT skills– 2015: Adopting Healthier lifestyles– 2016: Supporting learning mathematics

• JT offers the necessary information, expert guidance, tools and support for anyone to get other stakeholders (schools, universities, companies…) involved in a practical manner in such events.

Questions and Offerings• FPM is organizing one of these ‘serious game jam’ 18-19-20th of

September in Milan at the Museum of Science and Technology. • The other JamToday partners are doing the same in many other EU

countries of the consortium. • The JT format can be replicated in different contexts and with different

themes, but it’s not too easy to make it happen. • It possible, sharing also part of the JamToday’s Toolkit, to provide

indications on participants on how organize a ‘serious jam’ on their own, or with the help of the project, joining our network.

• It’s also an opportunity to discuss the value of learning games (or ‘serious’, or ‘applied’) in nowadays world from the perspective of games creators and not only as simple game users.