The first online educational fire safety game, designed specifically for the information needs of employees in their professional environment, is presented by the company inspiring career, a member of gi-Cluster, responding to the needs of both the Greek and international markets.
Within the framework of the current legislation on informing employees about fire safety issues, inspiring career combined fun with learning and transformed this obligation into an educational game, marking the beginning of a series of other serious games of similar logic that it is developing.
As Danae Antonopoulou, manager of inspiring career, said: "The game has already been tested by large companies and, with great satisfaction, we see that the processes for its integration into the basic functions of the human resources department are progressing. We started with the fire safety game, while we are already in the development stage of our next titles and with our participation in gi-Cluster we have been given the opportunity to meet like-minded people and create professional ties, which I hope will strengthen both our own dynamics and the Greek market as a whole.".
As stated in a relevant announcement, Inspiring Career is a newly founded Greek company specializing in human resources management and, specifically, in middle-level executives with a technological orientation and an activity focused on educational gaming.
Serious games, developed by inspiring career, can support corporate operations and increase the acceptance of human resource management initiatives, offering significant advantages, such as:
Adaptation to the needs of each company and the workload of each employee.
Foreign language versions (Greek and English, in progress French and Spanish).
Possibility of repetition by each player without restrictions.
Lower cost compared to traditional employee training.
Greater efficiency, as the user can set the speed at which he completes each track (learning stage), assimilating the information he receives.
Accessibility from anywhere in the world, via the internet.
Possibility of online tracking - complete performance history of each employee.
Opportunity to strengthen the company's reputation with the most up-to-date practices for better employee safety and development.
gi-Cluster [www.gi-cluster.gr] bears the seal of the first Greek innovation cluster in the creative industries, with a focus on the entertainment and creative technologies & applications sector (Gaming and Creative Technologies & Applications cluster).
It was established in early 2012, with the support of Corallia [www.corallia.org] as a cluster facilitator, with the mission of creating a world-class, fully functional business innovation ecosystem, aimed at producing new technologies and competitive products, leveraging scientific, business and research talent from all sectors of entertainment and creative technologies & applications, substantially contributing to improving Greece's position in the international competitiveness rankings.
Today, large and small businesses, academic institutions, research institutes and other innovation bodies participate in gi-Cluster, with significant potential for further expansion both through an increase in the number of members and the development of new collaborations with bodies in Greece and abroad.
The actions and initiatives it plans and implements are co-financed by national resources and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) through the National Strategic Reference Framework 2007-2013 (NSRF 2007-2013), the Operational Programmes Competitiveness and Entrepreneurship (OP-II) and Regions in Transition, as well as from the own resources of the participating bodies and other individuals and donors.
gi-Cluster has been awarded the Bronze Label by the European Agency ESCA [European Secretary for Cluster Analysis].
Source: skai.gr
