GREM: A Game to Remember
Infinite Opportunities Association, project promoter
Email: office@infopass.eu
Address: 239, Alexander Stambolijski blvd, 2nd floor, office 6, Sofia 1309, Bulgaria
Phone: +359 877 828249
Project GREM: Game to Remember is a response to the shocking increase of far-right and nationalistic propaganda, attempting among others to distort modern history and minimize the impact of the Holocaust. Such narratives downplay the crimes of the Nazi regime and its collaborators in both public and political discourse across Europe, allowing for antisemitism and antigypsyism to inch towards the mainstream.
A consortium of 5 non-governmental organizations from Hungary, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Spain, and Germany working with Jewish, Roma, and Sinti communities, young people, and in the fields of art and education have gathered to develop and pilot an engaging tool for Holocaust remembrance based on gamification. The GREM team aims to commemorate and teach about the crimes committed during the Holocaust and more specifically by transforming existing research and testimonials into innovative experiential learning classroom activity – a detective mystery.
The game is based on authentic Holocaust victims and survivors’ stories and stepping on the concept of LARP games and escape rooms, it transforms boring history lessons into an exciting experiential learning activity – a detective game solving a mystery.
The main target group of GREM project will consist of 550 teachers (specially focusing on secondary school history, philosophy, and ethics teachers), policymakers and public officials in the field of education at the local level (such as regional educational inspectorates, principals, and methodological experts of the Ministry of Education in all partner countries) and Roma and Jewish community leaders from the localities of the project partner.
The long-term aim would be to sensitize communities through gamified education so that people are better equipped to react against Holocaust distortion and no longer validate false news, facts, and information as in the end of a day “…a half-truth is worse than a full lie…” - quote by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance Honorary Chairman Yehuda Bauer.
Project GREM has been co-funded by the Citizens, Equality, Rights and Value program of the European Commission, Remembrance strand with n. 101091269 within the call CERV-2022-CITIZENS-RE. The project has a 2-year duration and runs from 01.01.2023 until 31.12.2024.
Raised awareness about Holocaust/totalitarian regimes manifestation.
New appreciation for gamification in education.
685 multipliers trained in Holocaust Remembrance.
60,000 people reached via an awareness-raising campaign.
5 educational detective games available in six languages.
Summaries of GREM work packages and deliverables, including f2f events, venues, number of participants, type of activities delivered
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