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What is happening in AMAICE: partner meetings, conference talks, milestones and first classroom trials, from the start of the project until today.

Three students solving a puzzle in a digital escape game on an iPad (illustration)

Classroom trialsOctober 2026

AMAICE escape games go into the classroom

After a year of design, play-testing and revision, the first AMAICE escape games are now being trialled with students at our partner schools.

Partners working on laptops at long tables in a seminar room decorated with the flags of the partner countries

Partner meeting11–13 June 2026

Annual Meeting in Frankfurt: the first AMAICE games are playable

At Goethe University Frankfurt, the partners played and discussed each other’s escape games for the first time – a major milestone eight months into the project.

Open notebook with sketches of puzzle ideas next to a coffee mug on a wooden desk

Online meeting9 December 2025

First game ideas take shape

In our first online project meeting, every university team presented the concept for its escape game – from the mathematical tasks to the storyline.

Partner meeting23–25 October 2025

AMAICE officially launched in Copenhagen

Nine partners from five European countries met in Copenhagen for three days to kick off AMAICE – and left with a shared vision, agreed design principles and a clear roadmap for the first escape games.

Printed poster “From Gap to Game – Enhancing mathematical core competencies through digital Escape Games” with the logos of the University of Siegen, TU Dortmund, University of Duisburg-Essen and AMAICE

Conference21 October 2025

Presenting the idea of AMAICE at ICTMT 17 in London

Just days before the official kick-off, our Siegen team introduced the idea of AMAICE to an international audience at the 17th International Conference on Technology in Mathematics Teaching.