The Open Access Escape Room: a game as a way of reaching out? - OpenAIRE Blog

"This year our usual practices of celebrating the Open Access Week at Kaunas University of Technology in Kaunas, Lithuania, took a different turn: in addition to promoting the OpenAIRE webinars, the initiative of setting up an escape room was brought to life. Rasa Dovidonytė, Senior Information Manager at KTU Library, followed the instructions by Katrine Sundsbø, the Scholarly Communications and Research Support Manager at the University of Essex, on how to set up the Open Access Escape Room (https://figshare.com/projects/Open_Access_Escape_Room/56915). The initiative was a success: 14 teams of bachelor, masters and PhD students, also researchers from different faculties and research administrators – 60 participants in total – embraced the challenge of escaping the Escape Room during the Open Access Week...."