Welcome to the EPIC-WE Resource Site
Dear visitor, welcome to the EPIC-WE Resource Site - your gateway to cultural-creative cooperation, collaboration, and co-creation that turn heritage into empowered participation, innovation into engaged partnerships, and game-making into imaginative culture-making.
Here you can:
- Experience 8 Games with Culture developed with cultural heritage and values in collaboration between game studios and youth to inspire future practices.
- Explore 100+ Cultural Prototypes - Games through and for culture - created by more than 450 youth that participated in our 12 EPIC-WE Cultural Game Jams.
- Access the 4 Cultural Game Jam Kits and organise your own Cultural Game Jam to engage and empower youth in culture through game-making.
- Employ Cultural Hub Models to form your own cross-sector partnerships for cultural-creative cooperation, collaboration, and co-creation.
- Dive into expert testimonials, and hub cases to gain insight into the value, impact, and outcomes of practicing cultural hubs, cultural game jams and game-making as culture-making.
Use these resources freely and adapt them to your own context. We hope they can inspire new practices, support local implementation, and help you build participatory, empowering, and future-oriented cultural innovation.
Sections
Games with Culture
Experience 8 Games with Culture developed with cultural heritage and values in collaboration between game studios and young game jammers to inspire future practices. The featured games show how heritage and values can become compelling gameplay. Use it to spark dialogue, inspire new design directions, and imagine cultural-creative engagement.
Cultural Game Prototypes
Explore our vibrant library of 100+ early-stage cultural game prototypes created by more than 450 youth and where cultural heritage, values, and themes become interactive worlds. Here, young teams transformed heritage and values into game ideas. It is valuable for anyone developing participatory cultural work and ways of making culture playable and interactive.
Cultural Game Jam Kits
Want to run your own Cultural Game Jam? Access our 4 kits with clear phases, methods, and tools you can adopt and adapt. Use them to build future talent, strengthen cross-sector partnerships, showcase cultural imagination and innovation, support young people in creating games through and for culture and get fresh ideas for turning audiences into engaged and empowered participants.
Cultural Hub Models
Cultural Hubs are EPIC-WE’s cross-sector model and framework creative industries, cultural heritage organisations, education institutions, and youth to partner up and collaborate as equals. This section shares models and principles for setting up hubs that generate cultural imagination and innovation. They are useful for anyone seeking to engage cross-sector co-creation, and build ecosystems where cultural innovation can grow across disciplines, organisations, and communities.
Expert Video Interviews
Hear from experts in games and culture, and our partners who made EPIC-WE work. These testimonials share concrete lessons about collaboration, facilitation, and what changes when young people are engaged as cultural co-creators. They are for everyone who want to understand not only what EPIC-WE did, but why its results and developed innovations matter for future cultural-creative work.
Cultural Hub Cases
The Hub Cases section gathers real EPIC-WE examples of Cultural Hubs, Cultural Game Jams, and the games they produced. Learn from their journeys as they reflect what it takes to make cross-sector collaboration work. It showcases how the project’s ideas is translated into action, adapted locally, and used to strengthen cultural participation, creativity, and impact.
The EPIC-WE Repository
Get your hands on all of the knowledge produced – the extensive research and practice results from the project. In the EPIC-WE repository, you find the research publications, state-of-the-art, design frameworks, practice outcomes, analysis, impact, and evaluation results, policy recommendations and much more. More than 10.000 pages of knowledge to browse and all freely available to download.
About the EPIC-WE Project
Learn more about the EPIC-WE project, a Horizon Europe-funded project (2023-2026) that connects creative industries, cultural heritage, education, games and young people in cultural-creative partnerships in Cultural Hubs and through Cultural Game Jams. EPIC-WE is an acronym for Empowered Participation through Ideating Cultural Worlds and Environments and aims to empower young people and foster cultural imagination and innovation.