The IVIPRO DAYS are back again this year, an international event that explores the connection between video games, culture, and territory. And that’s not all: there are more exciting updates!
Video Games
IVIPRO Award 2025 – Call Now Online
The Italian Videogame Program Award was established with the aim of promoting research and study on video games carried out within Italian universities and fine arts academies. After three editions featuring students from all over Italy, the call for applications for the 2025 edition is now online.
Video Games in Education? Press Start to Learn 2.0!
This week marks the launch of the new edition of the video game literacy program in schools, promoted by the IVIPRO Association in partnership with the Department of Education Sciences “Giovanni Maria Bertin” at the University of Bologna. The initiative involves four upper secondary schools across Emilia-Romagna, Lombardy, and Tuscany.
IVIPRO DAYS 2024: the full programme!
The Italian annual event dedicated to exploring the role and potential of the video game as a resource for narrating the territory and heritage is coming back in Trieste on November 1-2, 2024.
Welcome to the IVIPRO Collection!
A new project is born! Preserving video games is an essential requirement for developing further knowledge of the medium. Through the IVIPRO Collection, our association intends to contribute to gaming heritage preservation in Italy.
IVIPRO DAYS 2021: save the date!
IVIPRO DAYS, the Italian annual event dedicated to exploring the role and potential of the video game as a tool for promoting the territory and heritage, are coming back from 25th to 27th November 2021.
IVIPRO DAYS 2020: Online Edition!
Last year, IVIPRO DAYS hosted in-depth informative meetings, featuring Italian and international guests. At the charming Castello Estense of Ferrara, 23 experts and scholars, developers and game designers, as well as cultural institutions that had been working with video games, shared case studies and concrete experiences with the audience.
IVIPRO DAYS 2019: Video Games, Heritage, Tourism
On November 23rd 2018, the “Video games, territory and heritage” seminar took place in Bologna. It was the first of a series of literacy events promoted by IVIPRO and dedicated to exploring the role and potential of the video game as a tool for promoting the territory and heritage.
Playable Bologna: a videogame on Bologna’s historical, cultural and artistic heritage
November 27. This is the final deadline to participate in the ‘Bologna si mette in gioco – Playable Bologna’ contest launched by the Bologna Municipality: develop a videogame that talks about Bologna and promotes it through its heritage and monuments.
Italyformovies.it opens a new videogame section
Italy for Movies has just become even richer: the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism’s recently-launched national portal for locations and movie production incentives, created by Istituto Luce Cinecittà in collaboration with the Italian Film Commissions Association, now boasts a database of videogames set in Italy.