The Octopus project aims to enhance teachers’ interdisciplinary competencies through gamification while ensuring effective preparation for final exams. It focuses on creating an inclusive educational environment, particularly supporting SEN students and fostering core competence building, and understanding cultural roots. Integrating playful methodologies and person-centred approaches, the project equips educators with tools to engage diverse learners and improve wellbeing in mainstream schools.
At the core of OCTOPUS is a gamified learning platform developed by Narratologies, consisting of a student portal and a teacher’s back office. The student portal offers interactive, game-based exercises that turn exam preparation into an engaging experience, featuring reward systems, progress tracking, and challenges designed across multiple disciplines. The teacher’s back office allows educators to create and manage activities, adapt content for different learner needs, and monitor student progress. The platform is built to be intuitive and accessible, following universal accessibility principles and WCAG 2.1 guidelines.
Alongside the platform, the consortium is producing a comprehensive e-book in four languages clarifying the OCTOPUS methodology for teachers and students, a step-by-step handbook with inclusive teaching strategies and video tutorials, and a series of international training workshops where educators receive hands-on training on the platform and gamified methodology.
Expected results include training with teachers from partner’s countries, piloting the platform with students, and producing openly accessible educational materials that can be adopted by schools across Europe. All project outputs, the e-book, teacher’s guide, video tutorials, and the platform itself, will be published as free, open-access resources available to educators worldwide.
OCTOPUS partner organisations include:
- Rogers Foundation (Hungary)
- Narratologies P.C. (Greece)
- Üsküdar MEM (Türkiye)
- Centre for Systems Solutions (Poland)
OCTOPUS is a project co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union (KA220-SCH). The views and opinions expressed in this website are the sole responsibility of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Union.
