https://eurogeojournal.eu/index.php/egj <p class="text-muted pcustom-height">The European Journal of Geography (<strong>EJG</strong>) (ISSN: 1792-1341) has been the academic e-journal of the <a href="http://www.eurogeography.eu/">European Association of Geographers</a> (EUROGEO). It publishes papers and commentaries from across the discipline of geography and beyond, serving as a space for critical engagement. The journal is based on EUROGEO's goal to make European Geography a worldwide reference and standard.</p> <p class="text-muted pcustom-height">In addition to serving as a source reference and archive of advancements in geographical research, EJG aims to provide a platform for communication between researchers and professionals concerned with the following topics:</p> <p class="text-muted pcustom-height">Urban Geography, Transport Geography, Economic Geography, Environmental Geography, Cultural &amp; Historical Geography, Health Geography, Geographical Education, Teaching Geography, Spatial Analysis, Geographical information systems (GIS), Geo-spatial Information Science, Cartography, Regional Science, Tourism, Cities, Spatial Planning, Sustainability, and Resilience.</p> <p class="text-muted pcustom-height">The journal particularly encourages papers on innovative applications and theories in the fields above, or of an interdisciplinary nature. Submissions, however, are encouraged to have a European dimension.</p> <p>EJG is a <a href="https://www.scopus.com/sourceid/21100301417?origin=resultslist">Scopus-indexed</a> Journal that operates a double-blind peer-review policy (<em>Q1 in Cultural Studies, Q2 in Urban Studies, Q3 in Geography, Planning &amp; Development, Q3 in Demography</em>).</p> <p><strong>All authors can submit and publish their work free of charge.</strong></p> <p><strong>All articles are made freely and permanently available online through open-access publication.</strong></p> <p>^{<em>CiteScore 2022: <strong>1.2</strong> <strong>-</strong> Speed/Acceptance: <strong>69</strong> <strong>days</strong> avg. from submission to first post-review decision <strong>-</strong> Acceptance Rate: <strong>24%</strong></em>}</p> en-US abartzok@mail.ntua.gr (Dr. Alexandros Bartzokas-Tsiompras) sec@eurogeojournal.eu (Administrator) Sun, 21 Apr 2024 12:31:01 +0300 OJS 3.3.0.6 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 https://eurogeojournal.eu/index.php/egj/article/view/601 <p>The ever-increasing mobility of modern society has a number of negative effects on space, the environment, health and quality of life. It is therefore crucial to raise awareness of the importance of sustainable mobility, part of which is effective and comprehensive education of children. The article presents some key findings of the Sustainable Mobility in Preschools and Primary Schools project, carried out in the period 2019–2021. We investigated whether gamified activities can change students' travel habits and whether the change in travel habits is influenced by their age. The study is based on the survey data from 28,043 primary school students (grades 1–9) across 220 schools (77.7% in rural, 22.3% in urban settle-ments). Employing paired-samples t-tests and one-way analysis of variance, the study evaluated the impact of gamified activities on travel habits. The results show that children can significantly change their travelling habits with the help of gamification. Although the greatest change in travel habits occurred during the implementation of the activity, the results suggest that more lasting effects can also be achieved. Furthermore, younger participants displayed greater responsiveness to the gamified interventions compared to their older counterparts. This research enhances the corpus of knowledge pertaining to educational strategies for sustainable mobility by providing insights from one of the largest projects to investigate the influence of gamified activities on children's commuting habits.<br /><br /></p> <p><strong>Highlights:</strong></p> <ul> <li><em>More than 28,000 primary school students from 220 schools participated in the research.</em></li> <li><em>Gamification can be used for promotion of sustainable mobility among students.</em></li> <li><em>During the gamified activity, the share of sustainable journeys increased by 20,87 percentage points.</em></li> <li><em>Success of gamified activities depends on the age of students.</em></li> <li><em>Younger children were the most receptive to the gamified activities.</em></li> </ul> Boštjan Rogelj, Tatjana Resnik Planinc, Blaž Repe, Mojca Ilc Klun Copyright (c) 2024 Boštjan Rogelj, Tatjana Resnik Planinc, Blaž Repe, Mojca Ilc Klunun https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 https://eurogeojournal.eu/index.php/egj/article/view/601 Sun, 21 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0300