We are pleased to announce the celebration of the 1st International Workshop on Gamification and Games for Learning (GamiLearn’17) in conjunction with CIVE, on June 5-6, 2017 in Tenerife, Spain. This workshop is open to contributions from researchers, practitioners and industry about gamification and games in learning. The inclusion of game-like experiences during the design process of learning experiences has been tried and tested as a means to engage students. This approach can be applied either by considering game design principles in the course structure layout (i.e. gamification) or directly using games as discrete learning resources. The main objective is to bring together stakeholders with the aim of encouraging the exchange of ideas and experiences.