January 2026 - EduTec Science

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…

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…

Month: January 2026

GREAT Final Dissemination Event on 28.1 at Brussels

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