Category: Covid-19

Croatia workshops with Public Health and epidemiologists

For the purposes of the development of the STEP_UP game and characters, CIPH is creating a character and scenes in the field of public health. The goal was to identify stakeholders within this sector and bring their expertise and real life experience together through a constructive workshop. During the workshop the character was presented along…Continue Reading Croatia workshops with Public Health and epidemiologists

Interviews to health care managers help design the characters

In the frame of the activities related to the educational game development, WISE ANGLE has been tasked with consulting key stakeholders so as to feed the participatory co-creation process aimed at designing the characters, the real-life situations they will face in the playing scenarios and the measures they will have to put in place to…Continue Reading Interviews to health care managers help design the characters

ISIS interviews volunteer groups to advise on the game design

The workshops that were held in the partner countries Portugal, the Netherlands, Croatia, Spain and Germany with various actors who were active in the COVID-19 pandemic serve as a basis for the elaboration of realistic challenges that players should overcome to contain a pandemic in the STEP_UP game. On the 29th of July ISIS Social…Continue Reading ISIS interviews volunteer groups to advise on the game design

Consortium that promises to teach how to deal with a pandemic met in the Netherlands

The partners of the STEP_UP | Stop Epidemic Growth Through Learning project met on September 1 and 2, in the second transnational meeting of the project. The session took place in hybrid format, with some partners meeting in person in Gouda, in the Netherlands, and the others meeting online. STEP_UP is a European project, funded…Continue Reading Consortium that promises to teach how to deal with a pandemic met in the Netherlands

Nurses and caregivers support SHINE 2Europe in the STEP_UP game development

During the month of July, SHINE 2Europe consulted nurses and formal caregivers to devise scenes of a game that will teach how to fight a pandemic. Participants were brought together in two workshops and, with the help of a SHINE facilitator, made their contributions to the STEP_UP project | Stop Epidemic Growth Through Learning. This…Continue Reading Nurses and caregivers support SHINE 2Europe in the STEP_UP game development

STEP_UP featured in EPALE

STEP_UP: Stop Epidemic Growth Through Learning is a European Erasmus+ project started in December 2020, that will last until the end of February 2023. STEP_UP intends to develop a training tool for social care professionals, volunteers and community stakeholders, where they are introduced to the impact of behaviours in the spread of a pandemic/emergency situation…Continue Reading STEP_UP featured in EPALE

OPEN CALL to the COVID19 Virtual library of STEP_UP

The international project STEP_UP – Stop Epidemic Growth Through Learning just launched a Virtual Library that aggregates more than 200 measures, implemented and documented in the context of the COVID19 pandemic prevention and containment. Want to have your work represented in this Virtual Library? Do you know of measures or good practices that should be…Continue Reading OPEN CALL to the COVID19 Virtual library of STEP_UP

STEP_UP – Kick-off meeting of the new game that will teach you how to stop a pandemic

The official kick-off meeting of the new international project STEP_UP: Stop Epidemic Growth Through Learning, which addresses strategies to slow pandemic growth through learning was held on the 25 March 2021. The project began in December 2020 and is funded by the European Union’s Erasmus+ program. The international coordinator is SHINE 2Europe, a Portuguese SME…Continue Reading STEP_UP – Kick-off meeting of the new game that will teach you how to stop a pandemic