Overview:
Central Baltic Game Camps – development of new type Gaming sector’s joint ventures accelerator for Central Baltic Region
The overall objective of the project: Game Camps is an initiative to strenghten cross-border ties between the Baltic Sea countries’ game industries.
The specific objectives of the project: The express goal of the project is to help establish at least 10 cross-border game companies over the next 3 years, working with no less than 240 aspiring game developers from Finland, Estonia, Latvia and Sweden.
The main planned activities: The partners are organizing 4 international hackathons – Game Camps, held in Tallinn and Riga (2017), Kotka and Gotland (2018).
Project partners: Overall 4 organizations are involved from 4 countries, Finland, Sweden, Latvia and Estonia. Lead partner is Cursor Oy from Finland.
Programme: Game Camps is co-financed by the EU INTERREG Central Baltic programme: http://centralbaltic.eu/
Project number: Central Baltic 421
Project implementation period: 2016-2020
Total project budget: 1.58 MEUR, incl. budget for Tartu Science Park: 177 991,26 EUR (incl. own contribution: 31 410,23 EUR)
Project home page: https://gamecamps.info
Contact persons: Henri Hanson, project manager at Tartu Science Park, +372 5309 7706, henri@sciencepark.ee. Lead partner contact: Mr. Teemu Saarelainen, Project Manager of Game Camps and Head of Games at Cursor Oy, finland, https://www.cursor.fi