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The last PRESS Play!
Ken Koontz - 16-10-2024After touring for more than 2,5 years, performing in more than 80 performances in 4 countries, countless choices and even more button-pushes, the very last PRESS Play will be on Friday 29 November at 8pm Campo Nieuwpoort, Ghent. .
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un-TILTED! Wins Gold at the 2024 Serious Play Awards
Ken Koontz - 19-09-2024un-TILTED! is a video game designed to help young adolescents (4th-6th grade) develop self-control in challenging situations, and it has won Gold at the 2024 Serious Play Awards!
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Meet the Bloombox!
Jeanine Jennings - 28-04-2023The Bloombox is a free and open-access collection of tools to help teams and companies build science-branded, inclusive, and effective projects that promote human flourishing.
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GEMH's response to Jonathan Haidt's stance on social media and wellbeing
Jeanine Jennings - 28-03-2023Recently, prominent social psychologist Jonathan Haidt posted a piece about social media and teen girls’ mental health. Nastasia has her own thoughts on this, read them here!
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€3.7 Million awarded for interdisciplinary project on hope and climate change
Hanneke Scholten - 14-03-2023An interdisciplinary team of researchers from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, University of Twente (including our GEMH Lab co-director Hanneke Scholten) and the municipality of Amsterdam, have received €3.7 million from the National Growth Fund to explore hope as a social response to climate change.
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Stories of Impact
GEMH Lab - 04-10-2022Treating Youth Anxiety Through Gaming with Dr. Isabela Granic, Dr. Hanneke Scholten, and Ken Koontz
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Over $1.6 million awarded to GEMH Lab by TWCF
Nastasia Griffioen - 19-05-2022As the Games for Emotional and Mental Health Lab enters a new era of transitions and changes, we are extremely excited to announce that the Templeton World Charity Foundation has awarded us with over $1.6 million to share our knowledge with like-minded individuals!
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Dr. Scholten in All in the Game Podcast 'How games can make you more resilient in life'
GEMH Lab - 08-03-2022GEMH Lab's Dr. Hanneke Scholten was a main guest on the BNR 'All in the Game' podcast to talk about how games can positively influence our daily lives.
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GEMH Lab welcomes new Youth Advisors!
Nastasia Griffioen - 26-06-2023We are excited to welcome into the fold four new Youth Advisors, who will be providing sage counsel for our latest project, Wisper!
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Intergenerational Collaborations for a World Unravelling
Jeanine Jennings - 10-05-2023Listen to Director Isabela Granic speak with Ian McGilchrist in Conversations on Remaking the World about Intergenerational Collaborations for a World Unravelling.