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ROCKET‘s second Outreach event in Visby, Sweden is complete! 👏🤩 We are delighted to report that the second Outreach Conference took place in Visby, Sweden at Uppsala University’s Department of Game Design from June 12-13, 2025.ROCKET co-organized the Transformative Play Initiative Seminar 2025: Games, Conflict, and Education, in collaboration with the Uppsala Forum on Democracy, Peace and Justice. The seminar opened with a presentation on the… Read More »Imressions from Visby

The pilot for ROCKET’s Critical Virtual Exchange for teachers has successfully taken place. The ROCKET team is pleased to announce that the pilot of the project’s Critical Virtual Exchange for teachers has successfully taken place. The project team was initially joined by eighteen participants who together explored the topics of critical virtual exchange (CVE), diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), conflict transformation (CT), and role-playing games (RPGs).… Read More »ROCKET completes its first teacher training!

The ROCKET project team is proud to announce that their first Outreach Conference took place in Groningen, Netherlands, from 28 – 30 October 2024. The three-day event provided ample opportunities for co-creation, collaboration, and learning. While the first day was reserved for the consortium, the second and third day invited all target groups (students, lecturers, administrative staff and local stakeholders) to participate in the conference on-site… Read More »ROCKET organized its first Outreach Conference!

The ROCKET consortium is excited to share that the ROCKET Virtual Exchange course for students takes its first step toward institutional integration at the University of Goettingen!  By connecting with the Erasmus Mundus joint degree study programme “Euroculture – Society, Politics and Culture in a Global Context”, our intercultural Virtual Exchange will benefit from new students who will add yet another enriching perspective. Thanks to all involved for engaging in issues of Diversity, Equity,… Read More »First institutional integration at the University of Goettingen

We are enthusiastic about the first dissemination event for the Erasmus+ project ROCKET during PlayForward Festival 2024 in Goettingen, Germany. During this event, members of the ROCKET consortium joined to introduce the project to a wider audience and facilitate educational role-playing scenarios on conflict transformation and diversity, equity and inclusion. In an interactive workshop, participants examined a range of styles for engaging with conflict, including their own, in relevant work and educational contexts. Through… Read More »ROCKET Erasmus+ went live at PlayForward Festival in Goettingen!

ROCKET is delighted to announce the successful completion of the first pilot of our conflict transformation through role-playing Virtual Exchange (VE)! In this VE, students from the Universities of Göttingen, Uppsala, and Groningen came together for asynchronous and synchronous activities. We combined students from courses in Academic Writing, Intercultural Competencies, and Cultivating Transformational Communities, who together explored valuable theories and skills related to meaningfully addressing conflicts.  Topics explored in the… Read More »Successful first pilot!

Funded since January 2024 as part of the Erasmus+ Cooperation Partnerships program, project ‘ROCKET: Role-Playing Games on Conflict Transformation for Equity in Higher Education through Virtual Exchange’ enters the world today! The universities of Göttingen, Groningen and Uppsala are proud to present their initiative which combines Virtual Exchange with Role-playing Games and Conflict Transformation in order to strengthen Diversity, Equity and Inclusion across European Higher Education.… Read More »Inspiring Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in European Higher Education

The Kick-Off meeting for the Erasmus+ project ROCKET (Role-Playing Games on Conflict Transformation for Equity in Higher Education through Virtual Exchange) took place in Göttingen from 19-21 February 2024. Twelve members of the European consortium from the universities of Göttingen, Groningen, and Uppsala came together for three exciting days to get the project off the ground.  The first day provided an opportunity for the consortium to discuss management… Read More »ROCKET Kicks Off in Göttingen, Germany!