{"id":8455,"date":"2020-10-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-07T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i2cat.net\/the-med-gaims-project-conducts-a-hackaton-to-deploy-two-gamified-touristic-experiences-in-vilanova-i-la-geltru\/"},"modified":"2020-10-08T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-07T22:00:00","slug":"the-med-gaims-project-conducts-a-hackaton-to-deploy-two-gamified-touristic-experiences-in-vilanova-i-la-geltru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i2cat.net\/ca\/the-med-gaims-project-conducts-a-hackaton-to-deploy-two-gamified-touristic-experiences-in-vilanova-i-la-geltru\/","title":{"rendered":"The Med Gaims project conducts a hackaton to deploy two gamified touristic experiences in Vilanova i la Geltr\u00fa"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>The i2CAT Foundation organized the two-day competition last weekend, which gathered teams of gaming developers and awarded two grants to the best digital and analogical ideas<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/i2cat.net\/projectes\/med-gaims\/?lang=ca\">European project Med Gaims<\/a>, focused on promoting gamification to create memorable tourist experiences, organized a hackathon on the 3<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">rd<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and 4<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of October in Vilanova i la Geltr\u00fa. The competition, which was coordinated by the i2CAT Foundation in collaboration with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.neapolis.cat\/\">Ne\u00e0polis<\/a>, consisted of two days of teamwork, mentoring sessions, pitches, and presentations where each team worked on its proposal to gamify a touristic experience. The seven participating teams worked on a proposal related to interesting elements of the city, like museums. The hackathon aimed to find two projects for further development and deployment.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On Sunday, a jury selected the two winners, a digital game that obtained a 15.000 \u20ac grant, and an analogical game that obtained a 10.000 \u20ac grant. The two selected ideas were:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8211; \u201cThe grandfather\u201d (digital): a tour based on the artistic project Stolpersteine, based on concrete stones, placed on roads, that remember and pay tribute to people deported to Nazi camps.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8211; \u201cLayers\u201d (analogical): a game to discover signs of the past in the streets and buildings of Vilanova\u2019s Old Town.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/i2cat.net\/the-med-gaims-project-organizes-this-weekend-a-hackathon-to-develop-ideas-to-revolutionize-tourism-through-gamification\/?lang=ca\">Med Gaims project<\/a> aims to increase the attraction of tourist destinations, and, at the same time, generate workstations associated with technology, gamification, heritage, and services.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Merging game experiences with tourist experiences \u201cresponds to the touristic familiar mode that Vilanova i la Geltr\u00fa is willing to develop, and represents innovation and creativity, two core values of Ne\u00e0polis\u201d explains Conxi Mart\u00ednez, councilor of Innovation for Vilanova\u2019s City Council.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The i2CAT Foundation organized the two-day competition last weekend, which gathered teams of gaming developers&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7267,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - 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