Ferrol, April 23rd, 2024. Improve secondary education curriculum in Europe and enhance the capacities of teachers and students through the introduction of interdisciplinary approaches by means of conflict video dialogues. This is the main objective of the European project Erasmus+. Incorporating Interdiscipinarity in Secondary School Education Using Conflict Video Games (InterGames) which is led, on behalf of the University of A Coruña, by Luz Castro, lecturer at the Polytechnic School of Engineering of Ferrol (EPEF) and coordinator of the Master’s Degree in Design, Development and Marketing of Video Games.
Another teacher from the Ferrol Industrial Campus, Ana Ares, a lecturer at the University School of Industrial Design (EUDI), as well as María Bobadilla and Eduardo Barros, lecturers at the Faculty of Education Sciences at the Elviña Campus (A Coruña), are collaborating in this innovative teaching project, which aims to encourage critical thinking, problem solving and emotional intelligence among secondary school students from all over Europe.
The European Project Erasmus+ Incorporating Interdiscipinarity in Secondary School Education Using Conflict Video Games (InterGames) is coordinated by the non-governmental organisation Südwind from Austria. Other two NGOs are part of this consortium, Citizens In Power from Cyprus and Progettomondo from Italy, the company Helixconnect from Romania, the University of A Coruña in Spain, and the secondary schools Björkhöjdskolan from Sweden and the Bundeshandelsakademie und Bundeshandelsschule Linz International Business School from Austria.
InterGames is co-financed by the European Union’s Erasmus+ programme and has a budget of 400,000 euros. The University of A Coruña has 63,450 euros to set up, before the end of 2025, a Virtual Learning Laboratory for the training of secondary school teachers, a scientific report that assesses the effectiveness of interdisciplinary learning at this educational stage as well as the development of complementary material for schools.
