Games, Heritage, Arts, & Sport: the economic, social, and cultural value of the European videogame ecosystem.

Project Information

GAMEHEARTS

Grant agreement ID: 101132543

DOI

10.3030/101132543

EC signature date 7 November 2023

Start date 1 January 2024

End date 31 December 2026

Funded under

• Culture, creativity and inclusive society

Total cost

€ 2 706 517,50

EU contribution

€ 2 706 517,50

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITAT WIEN
Austria

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Deliverables

Documents, reports (7)

Sustainability Plan

The sustainability plan will cover the environmental, social, and relevant governance (ESG) strategies of the consortium. This will identify risk and opportunities for better managing the consortium’s ESG standards of practice. It is envisaged that this will contain a vision statement, setting out the overall ethos of the consortium’s commitment to high standards of ESG. It will provide a brief overview of the current state of play, identify key risks, and proposing mitigating actions, set out clear goals and a code of practice, and detail the governance and implementation of this plan.

Policy Brief 1

The aim of this mid-way brief is to condense, for essentially internal use, in an easily digestible format key policy relevant findings (e.g. key messages and recommendations to date from WP2-WP5).

State-of-the-art report 1

Systematic literature/State of the art review (M5-M6, led by WUEB, with USAL). In particular, this will consider existing knowledge and models of understanding of industry practice in EVGIE & CCI, and examples of cooperation between these sectors. This will then inform the basis of WP3, which will develop new knowledge building on what is already known. This then not only helps underpin WP3, but will also informs the exploration of new models of cooperation in WP6, and the lessons learnt here will then be disseminated through WP7.

EU/Comparative Report

Report on the analysis of existing European industry specific and related social policies. This report will highlight opportunities, risks, and gaps. It will highlight the findings from initial comparative national policy analysis and EU governance principles.

State-of-the-art report 2

Report on the systematic/state of the art analysis on EDI education & game design. This reports on the analysis covering game design and EDI education and applications to provide a broader overview of existing capacities (e.g., theories, methods, outcomes, limitations) for games to create empathic, cultural, and inclusive experiences.

Ethical approval

Ethics approval (M1-M4, lead USAL, all). It will be the role of the Project Coordinators to seek ethical approval for the overall project and our role within it from USAL. Each of the research partners will also seek internal ethical approval for their aspect of the project where required.

Workshop reports

Workshops will be used as a research method to generate new data. Hence, a report will be produced by the 5 organizing institutions outlining the findings and conclusions formed from these analytical workshops, then these insights will be fed forward into the subsequent WPs.

Data Management Plan (1)

Data Management Plan

Data Management Plan (M1-M36, lead USAL, all). The project data management plan (DMP) will be overseen by USAL and is set out in detail in Section 1 of Part B.

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (1)

Project Website

The creation and management of a public-facing website for information, dissemination, & impact, with the first release of the website by the end of M3.

Demonstrators, pilots, prototypes (1)

Player-centred videogame prototypes

Ths will involve the design of the interface and interaction of a videogame with low-fidelity prototypes that include social, immersion, and progression motivational affordances (e.g., cooperation, avatars, challenges), after the workshop session with stakeholders. Diverse personas will be used to evaluate and refine the prototypes towards three high-fidelity interactive versions. A non-gameful version will be created for A/B testing.

Other (1)

Form Advisory Panel

The external Advisory Board (AB) will provide additional advice on academic, industry, and policy relevance and implications of the research. This will also provide additional pathways to impact for the deliverables from this project.

Publications

Other (3)

Game On! Unlocking Synergies Between Video Games & Creative and Cultural Industries

Author(s): Klimas Patrycja, Radomska Joanna, Wrona Sylwia, Kościewicz Dawid, Strzelec Gabriela
Publisher: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.14038801

From Policy to Paradox: Diversity Washing, Policy Failures, and the Limits of Authentic Intersectional Pleasure in the European Video Game Industry

Author(s): Kościewicz Dawid, Strzelec Gabriela
Published in: DIGRA Conference 2026, 2026
Publisher: DIGRA

Co-innovations of European Video Game Developers. At Which Stages and With Whom Are Innovations Cocreated Within the European Video Game Ecosystem?

Author(s): Patrycja Klimas, Gabriela Strzelec, Dawid Kościewicz, Joanna Radomska
Published in: 2025
Publisher: none (publihsed via ZENODO)
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.15065372

Conference proceedings (2)

When Knowledge Becomes Value: Cross Industry Cooperation Between CCI and VGD

Author(s): Patrycja Klimas, Joanna Radomska
Published in: Książka posterów XIII Ogólnopolska Konferencja Naukowa z cyklu Zarządzanie Rozwojem Organizacji. Mobilizacja, Komercjalizacja i Waloryzacja Wiedzy, 6-8 maja 2026, Szklarska Poręba, 2026, ISBN 978-83-67934-98-5
Publisher: Lodz University of Technology
DOI: 10.34658/9788367934985

Knowledge Valorisation. The Case of Gamehearts Project

Author(s): Patrycja Klimas, Joanna Radomska
Published in: Książka posterów XIII Ogólnopolska Konferencja Naukowa z cyklu Zarządzanie Rozwojem Organizacji. Mobilizacja, Komercjalizacja i Waloryzacja Wiedzy, 6-8 maja 2026, Szklarska Poręba, 2026, ISBN 978-83-67934-98-5
Publisher: Lodz University of Technology
DOI: 10.34658/9788367934985

Peer reviewed articles (2)

Gamification towards and alongside equity, diversity and inclusion: Looking back to move forward

Author(s): Ana Carolina Tomé Klock, Paula Toledo Palomino, Luiz Antonio Lima Rodrigues, Armando Maciel Toda, Sofia Simanke, Velvet Spors, Brenda Salenave Santana, Juho Hamari
Published in: New Media & Society, 2024, ISSN 1461-7315
Publisher: Sage
DOI: 10.1177/14614448241254028

What are the Drivers, Barriers, Mechanisms, and Anchors of cross-industry cooperation? The Perspective of the Video Game Industry Ecosystem

Author(s): Patrycja Klimas, Joanna Radomska, Dawid Kościewicz, Gabriela Strzelec and Sylwia Wrona
Published in: Games and Culture, 2025, ISSN 1555-4120
Publisher: Sage Journals
DOI: 10.1177/15554120251317276