Relica

17/05/2026

📬 Our RELICA Newsletter is out!

Inside this edition:

🎨 Guess the Emotions — our new interactive game where you identify joy, sadness, anger, fear and surprise through the paintings of Kandinsky, Van Gogh, Munch, Schiele and Rembrandt

🌸☀️🍂❄️ The Four Seasons — language learning inspired by Vivaldi

👁️👂👅✋👃 Five Senses in Art — step inside Vermeer, Renoir and Bruegel

All games are free, interactive and available in 7 languages 🌍

And one more thing — mark your calendar! 🗓️

📅 3 June 2026 | 17:00–18:30 CET

We're hosting a FREE Online Dissemination Event — a hands-on playground where you can try the games live, connect with educators from across Europe and share your feedback.

👉 Registration link in first comment below !

RELICA Newsletter #3

24/04/2026

In spring, I listen to the birds singing. In summer, I go to the beach. In autumn, I pick up the fallen leaves. In winter, I put on my coat.

Four seasons. Four moods. One game — and a whole new language to discover. 🎨🎵

The Four Seasons is an interactive language learning game inspired by Vivaldi's masterpiece. Match seasons to images, activities and music excerpts... and start describing your world in a new language.

Created by COTA Art for Society within the RELICA Erasmus+ European cooperation project — an innovative method for inclusive language learning through art and gamification. 🇪🇺

🎮 Play it here: https://view.genially.com/6824ae4f189df707645f01b6

We'd love your feedback! 💬
👉 Which season is YOUR favourite and why?
👉 Would you use this game with your students or learners?
👉 What would you add to make it even better?

Drop your answer in the comments using: 🌸 "In spring, I…"
☀️ "In summer, I…"
🍂 "In autumn, I…"
❄️ "In winter, I…"

22/04/2026

🔵 RELICA Project's Games Pilot testing !

Project partner Il Salone dei Rifiutati kicked off their first pilot testing of the RELICA project’s digital activities with young participants from the cooperative Le Rose di Atacama ✨

By combining interactive tools with visual and hands-on activities inspired by art, participants experienced an engaging journey full of discovery, collaboration, and play.

🌍🍁 From world flags to the frottage technique in digital form, the games sparked curiosity and active participation, allowing young people to learn new words while having fun and sharing meaningful moments together.

An experience that once again shows how language learning becomes even more effective when enriched with creative and active approaches.

Follow us at www.relicaonline.eu

Many digital activities designed to support language learning through art will soon be available on the project’s website!

🇪🇺 PARTNERS: COTA Art for Society | Comparative Research Network | Artifactory | Fundacja Digital Creators | Artemisszió Alapítvány | Il Salone dei Rifiutati

10/04/2026

🕵️‍♀️🖼️✨ Are all paintings telling the truth… or hiding something?

Step into a dusty storage room where art has secrets.
Now look closely at a “familiar” masterpiece… something feels off. A detail out of place. A story that doesn’t quite add up.

Clean. Detect. Discover. invites you to become both art detective and language explorer.

In this immersive RELICA game, you don’t just look at paintings — you investigate them.
Wipe away the dust. Zoom into the details. Catch the tiny visual “lies” hidden in plain sight. 🔍

As you uncover what doesn’t belong, you’ll also unlock a new language:
🇵🇱 Learn Polish or English or any other language through objects, actions, and clues embedded in each artwork.

🎨 You’ll experience:
🧹 Cleaning forgotten paintings to reveal hidden layers
👀 Spotting strange details and clever forgeries
🧩 Solving visual puzzles through observation and curiosity
🗣️ Learning words and phrases as part of the discovery

Each painting becomes a mystery. Each mistake, a clue. Each word, a key.

Clean Detect Discover was created by Fundacja Digital Creators within the RELICA European cooperation project — an innovative approach to inclusive language learning through art and gamification. Co-funded by the European Union 🇪🇺

🎮 Play it here:
https://view.genially.com/69be1aee46297a45b6db129f

We’d love your thoughts! 💬
👉 Did you catch all the hidden mistakes?
👉 Would you use this with your learners?
👉 What kind of “art mysteries” would you add?

Some old paintings may not be what they seem.Clean the dust, inspect the details, and discover clues.Learn Polish by spotting objects, actions, and suspicious mistakes hidden inside famous-looking artworks

30/03/2026

👁️👂👅✋👃 Can you sense a painting?

Imagine looking at Vermeer's Milkmaid and asking: What can you hear? What can you feel? What can you taste?
That's exactly what Five Senses in Art invites you to do — a language learning game that turns great masterpieces into a full sensory experience. 🎨

Explore three iconic paintings:
🥛 Vermeer — The Milkmaid
🍷 Renoir — Luncheon of the Boating Party
🥣 Bruegel — The Peasant Wedding

For each painting, you explore all five senses through language — describing what you see, hear, smell, taste, and touch. It's immersive, creative, and surprisingly moving.

Five Senses in Art was created by Artemisszió and COTA Art for Society within the framework of the RELICA Erasmus+ project — an innovative method promoting inclusive language learning through art and gamification. 🌍

🎮 Try it here: https://view.genially.com/69b0582d59e213fdf50f5f6b

We'd love your feedback! 💬
👉 Which painting moved you the most?
👉 Could you use this in your courses?
👉 What would you add or change?

Let us know !

Five Senses in Art was created by Artemisszió and COTA Art for Society within the framework of the RELICA European cooperation project.

13/03/2026

🎨🚪 Step inside the artist's room… if you dare!

What if you could walk into Van Gogh's bedroom, rummage through Hopper's belongings, peek at Lichtenstein's desk, or explore Magritte's mysterious space — and learn a language while doing it?

That's exactly what Il Salone dei Rifiutati invites you to do! 🌍✨
As part of an Erasmus+ cooperation project, RELICA promotes innovative methods that blend art, gamification, and inclusive language learning into one immersive experience.

You explore the personal rooms and objects of four iconic artists:
🌻 Vincent Van Gogh
🌃 Edward Hopper
💥 Roy Lichtenstein
🎯 René Magritte

Each room is full of clues, stories, and surprises — and every object is a doorway into language.
🕹️ Ready to play?
👉 Enter the rooms here: https://view.genially.com/69af27fb4b19f89b82c2659d

We're still developing RELICA and your feedback means everything to us! After you've explored, let us know:
💬 Which room was your favourite?
💬 Did the objects surprise you?
💬 How could we make the experience even better?

Share, play, and tell us what you think! 🙌

16/02/2026

👉🏼 RELICA Tutorials: Creativity can unlock language in ways that grammar books never could.

RELICA Tutorials help educators, trainers, and youth workers design art-based workshops that strengthen engagement, boost confidence, and support meaningful communication through hands-on creative activities.

📷 A Picture is worth a thousand words

In this tutorial, you will discover how to set up a playful learning activity that helps participants express feelings and emotions using extra-linguistic practices such as cards, pantomime, and photography. This approach encourages freer communication while enriching emotional vocabulary and expressive skills.

RELICA is an innovative method developed within an Erasmus+ cooperation project, promoting inclusive language learning through art and gamification.

🎥 Watch the tutorial:
https://youtu.be/e-NRPyAgMrE

👉 Explore more free activities and resources:
https://relica.online/

Improve Language Learning Through Creativity | RELICA TutorialsRELICA Tutorials are designed to help you set up art-based workshops for language teaching. Di...

06/02/2026

Warsaw turned into a lively lab of ideas during the Third Transnational Project Meeting of RELICA 🇵🇱✨, kindly hosted by Fundacja Digital Creators.

For three days, partners came together to exchange knowledge 🤝, experiment with methods 🎨, and co-create digital workshop formats that use art as a gateway to language learning and communication.

One of our key challenges was transforming place-based language activities, such as those developed at the Museum of Warsaw 🏛️, into interactive mini games using 🎮💻. All these digital resources will be shared freely and openly for educators and youth workers worldwide 🌍.

A strong moment of international collaboration within the RELICA project, co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union 🇪🇺.

Want to explore more?
• visit the official website 🌐
• download the activity manual 📘
• watch the video tutorials 🎥

👇🏻 link 👇🏻
https://relica.online/

COTA Art for Society
Il Salone dei Rifiutati
Comparative Research Network
Artemisszió Alapítvány
Fundacja Digital Creators
Artifactory

Art as a bridge to learn, include, and connect. 🎨💬🌱

03/02/2026

03/02/2026

🔠🌟 Portmanteau Words: When Words Collide and New Worlds Are Born! 🌟🔠

Words are fun, but word-fusions are magical! In our latest creative language activity from the RELICA project, participants dive into the playful universe of Portmanteau Words — where two words merge like stars in a constellation to create something entirely new. 🚀💬

Imagine smile + sunrise = smirise
or wander + wonder = wand-er ✨

This activity created by Il Salone dei Rifiutati iinvites learners to:
🔹 Explore meaning through imaginative word combinations
🔹 Stretch vocabulary with playful linguistic invention
🔹 Build confidence in language by remixing the familiar
🔹 Share laughter and insight with others as new words take shape

Perfect for classrooms, workshops, and creative circles — no level too beginner, no idea too wild. Portmanteaus makes language feel alive! 🧠💥

Dive into the full activity guide here 👉 https://relica.online/portmanteau-words/
or
watch the tutorial 👉🏼link in the first comment

Bring word-fusion fun to your learning space — because when words play together, curiosity grows! 🌈🎈