How can applied gaming principles and technologies preferably be utilized to support the development of skills and knowledge acquisitions for Europe's workforce? This is the research challenge that the RAGE project will address during the next four years through the involvement and coordination of gaming studios, researcher institutes, and educational and training providers throughout Europe.
The RAGE project will develop and deploy applied games-pilots in such diverse fields as communication skills training in vocational education; digital creativity in support of regional development; empowering the unemployed with transversal competences for employability; soft-skills development in sports; conversational skills in crime investigation; and job searching skills for temporary workers.
These pilots target over 3.000 participants throughout Europe. But the long-term benefit will be in the resulting technology resources – a collection of self-contained gaming assets that support game studios at developing applied games more efficiently and making them better suited for their purpose. RAGE will make these assets available along with a large volume of high quality knowledge resources through an online portal and social space that will connect research, gaming industries, intermediaries, education providers, policy makers and end-users.
RAGE (Realising and Applied Gaming Eco-system) is a 48-months Technology and Know-How driven Research and Innovation project co-funded by the EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation, Horizon2020.
7. A business model and launch plan for exploiting RAGE results beyond project´s duration.
The core contributions of the FTK lie within designing the RAGE Ecosystem and leading the implementation of the backbone Virtual Information and Knowledge Environment infrastructure based on a Software Repository, a Digital Library, a Media Archive, an Online Training Portal and an Interactive Map of stakeholders and resources of RAGE. Furthermore, FTK will provide its expertise in the area of information retrieval, data mining and recommender systems, focusing on indexing software technology, documentation, media resources and learning content. Furthermore, FTK will contribute to RAGE Online Training Portal in the area of mobile learning support. Finally, FTK will support the technical development of the community support at the RAGE Ecosystem.