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1 QuestCity Learn how to help! www.questcity.eu Educational online game for children from 8 - 12 years Co-funded by the European Commission, LLP Programme, 2009, 2012 Awarded with the "Comenius EduMedia Seal" for pedagogically outstanding educational media, 2012

2 QuestCity has been co-funded by the European Commission in the LLP Programme in the projects: e-self-help - PC learning program "Enhancement of Self-Help" (2010-2011) QuestCity - Edutainment for Europe(2013-2014) DG Education, Audiovisual & Culture Lifelong Learning Programme (LLP) European Project

3 Norway  Directorate for Civil Protection and Emergency Planning Poland  The Main School of Fire Service Slovenia  Administration for Civil Protection and Disaster Relief of Slovenia for Civil Protection and Disaster Relief Turkey  Portclinic Tez Medikal Saglik Turizm A.S. International  Samaritan International The Makers of QuestCity Austria  Johanniter-Unfall-Hilfe e.V. Wien  Amt der Tiroler Landesregierung Cyprus  Cyprus Civil Defence  Research and Consultancy Institute Ltd. Germany  AKKON Hochschule gGmbH  Johanniter-Unfall-Hilfe e.V.  UBILABS GmbH Latvia  Sveta Jana Palidziba Lithuania  Firefighters Training School of Fire and Rescue Department under the MOI

4 The Makers of QuestCity Johanniter-Unfall-Hilfe e.V. NGO, Germany and Austria AKKON Hochschule gGmbH University, Germany Sveta Jana Palidziba NGO, Latvia Cyprus Civil Defence GO, Cyprus UBILABS GmbH Software company, Germany Directorate for Civil Protection and Emergency Planning GO, Norway Amt der Tiroler Landesregierung GO, Austria Firefighters Training School of Fire and Rescue Department under the MOI GO, Lithuania Administration of the Republic of Slovenia for Civil Protection and Disaster Relief GO, Slovenia Research and Consultancy Institute Ltd. Research institution, Cyprus The Main School of Fire Service GO & University, Poland Portclinic Tez Medikal Saglik Turizm A.S. Hospitals, Turkey Samaritan International

5 English German Greek Latvian Turkish Lithuanian Polish SlovenianNorwegian QuestCity Languages

6 Target group: 8 – 12 year old children Non-formal learning instrument Teaching self-help and disaster-response topics in a playful way. Invoking motivation for helping themes. Strengthening the awareness of how important helping skills are: for you, for me, for my family, my friends, for everybody. Strengthening personal commitment and the willingness to help. Increasing self-help skills in the European society. Increasing the notion of prevention in the European society. Encouraging the children to apply learned things to real life. Objectives

7 Certificates Classification as Learning Programme The Entertainment Software Self-Regulation Body...... certified QuestCity officially as learning programme.... classified it as “Approved without age restriction in accordance with Art. 14 German Children and Young Persons Protection Act (JuSchG).“ Comenius-EduMedia Seal in 2012 Media experts from 10 countries judged QuestCity to be a pedagogically and creatively outstanding educational media. to offer a high potential for training and competence enhancing. to unite knowledge improvement and gaming in the field of self help in a responsible manner.

8 Educational Ideas Games test your skills and make you better at them. Children's learning is very receptive to game-based approaches. QuestCity shows that helping can be an exciting experience. QuestCity expects the user to make decisions in emergency situations so that the player can learn from it. QuestCity emergencies from everyday-life and disaster-response are close to real life in a simplified way. QuestCity increases helping skills in a non-formal playfully way. QuestCity raises the awareness of...... the real presence of emergencies in our everyday life.... how important it is to do something in emergency situations.... how important it is to know what to do in emergency situations.

9 QuestCity Learning Content Helping in Every-Day-Life Emergencies

10 QuestCity Learning Content Helping in World-Wide Mission Quests

11 How to play QuestCity? Registration & Login Sign up with your email-address only. Activate the conformation link in the email sent by QuestCity. Create a password and start to play. From now on you can log in with your email address and your password.

12 How to play QuestCity? Profile & Avatar Define you own profile. Create a phantasy-nickname. Design the individual appearance of your avatar.  No real name or address is revealed.  No allocations to real persons.

13 How to play QuestCity? Home Area Your help is needed! Switch to other languages. Enter the "World Map". Enter the "Rescue Shop". Trophies are awarded.

14 How to play QuestCity? Playing a Situation A small story tells you what happened. Drop the jumbled handling steps into the correct order. You get experience and money points for each solved situation! The game level increases with your experience.

15 How to play QuestCity? World Map The world map leads you to world wide mission quests. Mission Quest = Theme specific group of situations. (e.g. "mountains", "flood", "fire") A green 'Home' icon leads back to the home screen.

16 How to play QuestCity? Playing a Mission Quest Situations are theme specific. Repeat a situation as many times as you want. Stars mark how well have done. Gather the locked situations by solving other situations correctly. Experience and money points are multiplied in a mission quest.

17 How to play QuestCity? Rescue Shop In the shop you can buy rescue items. You pay with your money points. Each item has a minimum level you must have to buy it. Some items are needed to enter special world wide mission quests.

18 How to play QuestCity? Team Play Invite your friends and build up an own team. Oliver, Tom, Lucy, Alex and Emma accompany you.

19 How to play QuestCity? High-Score Compare yourself with other QuestCity players. Check your rank in the high-score list.

20 QuestCity - Safety Age Appropriateness Age-appropriate content and communication. Respectful, friendly and responsible interaction with each other. Data Safety Registration solely with email address. Phantasy nickname as personal assignment. No allocation of the playing account to a real person. No real name or address is revealed. No Costs QuestCity has an educational goal and can be played with all its features free of charge, now and also in the future.

21 QuestCity Community QuestCity can be found on facebook. QuestCity can be followed on Twitter. QuestCity trailer can be seen on Youtube.

22 QuestCity Contact For further questions please contact :

23 Thank you for your attention!


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