Feb192026 by Jane YauNo Comments
GREAT Presentation at the World Forum for Science Innovation and Entrepreneurship

GREAT Presentation at the World Forum for Science Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Invited talk
On 12 February 2026, Jane Yau gave an online presentation of the GREAT project at the World Forum for Science Innovation and Entrepreneurship (WFSIE) 2026. The title of the presentation was "Game-based civic engagement for climate policy and citizen-policymaker dialogue". Abstract: The GREAT project aims to establish an innovative communication channel between citizens and policy-makers on the climate emergency through a multi-disciplinary consortium. The consortium unites two game companies and seven academic partners to harness the power of interactive digital games for civic engagement and informed policy-making. By leveraging the unique capabilities of game-based platforms, the project seeks to transform how environmental concerns are communicated and addressed. Central to the project is the oversight and coordination of over 10 real-world co-designed case studies. These case studies involve collaboration with policy…
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Jan302026 by Jane YauNo Comments
GREAT Final Dissemination Event on 28.1 at Brussels

GREAT Final Dissemination Event on 28.1 at Brussels

Project
On 28.1.26, GREAT Project Coordinator Hendrik Drachsler and Project Manager Jane Yau were at the European Commission in Brussels for the project final event to showcase the project findings with EC Policy Officers and external Game Industry Partners including Sybo and Tencent. The 3-year Horizon Europe project started on 1.2.23 and finished on 31.1.26. The Final Event was titled "Play to Impact: The GREAT (Games Realising Effective and Affective Transformation) Project Showcase ‘How Games are Shaping Environmental Action, Culture and Policy". It started with a joint session with GREAT's sister projects within the Games for Culture Session, where the projects shared their policy relevance and recommendations for societal impact., followed by the next session, where the GREAT consortium together with the sister projects discussed with the EC Policy Officers the…
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Jan162026 by Sebastian GombertNo Comments
BEA 2026 Shared Task on Rubric-based Short Answer Scoring for German

BEA 2026 Shared Task on Rubric-based Short Answer Scoring for German

New Pub
Are you a researcher in AI in education and/or natural language processing? Do you like shared tasks and machine learning competitions like the yearly SemEval tasks or Kaggle competitions? Then you might consider participating in the BEA 2026 Shared Task on Rubric-based Short Answer Scoring for German, co-organized by us and colleagues from IPN - Leibniz-Institut für die Pädagogik der Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik. For this shared task, we look at the natural language understanding task of rubric-based short answer scoring, a task for which models must score short answers to open-ended assessment questions with the help of provided textual scoring rubrics. The dataset we provide for this was collected in authentic German school contexts and scored by domain experts as part of the ALICE project funded by the Leibniz-Gemeinschaft. As…
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