"Creativity and Play" International Conferences

The Game

It is peculiar.

Round and beautiful,

wonderful and delightful,

can be opened and closed,

a button, a sphere, a pearl, a ring.

A magical key and a candle’s flame,

colorful shadow, devil’s lamp.

I play with my own life,

hide and seek with every shadow,

with the attic, with the rooms,

with the light that flies away,

I throw light with the mirror

to the sand, to the bush,

and the sun – a giant golden coin –

suddenly collapses into my lap.



(Dezső Kosztolányi)


The game: reflection, imitation of reality, confrontation, competition and cooperation, thinking, learning, disconnection, flow, and immersion.
The topic of our 2025 conference is creativity and play.
Playing begins in childhood by observing the dance of a scarf floating in front of our face, and continues with the observation, modeling, and imitation of phenomena in the world around us – leading to the discovery of the joy of collaboration with peers.
We incorporate our experiences of this diverse world into our cognitive and creative strategies. From the act of self-expression to the creation of things, from perceiving new and unknown connections between phenomena to renewing and creative innovations – human creativity shines through it all.

Creative pedagogies can support learners in approaching knowledge creation more independently and critically. The competitive nature of educational systems can be softened through play: more play, less performance-oriented competition.
Play creates the opportunity for mutual learning in situations that are enjoyable for all participants.
Coordinated teamwork along assigned roles is not only life-saving in medicine, but it also plays a key role in the survival of families and other communities – and such collaboration is best learned through shared play.

Play and creativity are both the origin and the goal of educational processes.
Play strengthens creativity, just as creativity enhances play, and one of the main goals of learning is the creative use of knowledge.

How can this happen? How can play and creativity be integrated into education? And what effect does this have on people and their environment?
These are among the questions we aim to explore at our Conference – with your help.
We invite researchers, professionals, and educators to share their experiences and insights about play and creativity with us and the participants of the conference.

Suggested topics:

Pedagogy of play

Traditional folk games

LEGO adventures

Play in kindergarten and school

Logic games

Drama games

The creative person – the playful person

Digital storytelling

Virtual and augmented reality in learning

Gamification, digital and online games

Artificial intelligence

Creative problem-solving


Publication:

Abstracts of conference presentations are going to be published in a book of abstracts, while complete papers will be published in an e-book.



Conference fee:

Conference fee is 100 EUR (or the equivalent in Serbian dinar), which includes conference materials (book of abstracts, e-book) and catering. Upon payment, transfer expenses are to be covered by the applicant.



Conference registration:

Participants are invited to submit their e-applications which also include the title and abstract of their papers (no longer than 1000 characters) as well as (maximum 5) keywords in one of the conference languages (Hungarian, Serbian, Croatian, English).



We accept applications to July 15, 2025. Completed registration form and conference fee payment form should be sent to the e-mail: Y29uZiB8IG1hZ2lzdGVyICEgdW5zICEgYWMgISBycw==



Deadlines:

Application: July 15, 2025

Conference fee payment: September 15, 2025

Conference November 6, 2025

Submitting full papers: November 15, 2025

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