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Kahoot

Promoting knowledge acquisition, engagement, and knowledge assessment through game-based quiz mechanics.

Survival of the Best Fit

Promoting digital literacy and a critical understanding of algorithmic decision-making processes and bias in artificial intelligence.

Startup Essentials

The Startup Essentials simulation models the founding and management of a company using the example of a surfboard manufacturer. The thematic focus lies on the essential steps of starting a business—from ideation to business model development and financial and strategic planning. The goal is to convey economic relationships in a practical manner and promote entrepreneurial thinking. The main target group includes students in business-related programs, founders, and professionals who wish to train their business decision-making skills. As a serious game, Startup Essentials combines playful elements with a realistic learning approach, supporting interactive and application-oriented knowledge transfer. The game is based on a step-by-step decision-making process: Participants analyse market conditions, make financing decisions, and develop management strategies. The simulation was released in 2017 by TOPSIM GmbH and has been continuously developed since then.

Connect Rollout

Developing skills in international project management through simulation-based learning and systems thinking.

The Cascades Game

“The Cascades Game” is an interactive and educational social-simulation game for university settings. It aims to foster system thinking by introducing the concept of cascading climate impacts and policy responses to address and tackle them. The game was developed as part of the Project CASCADES (Cascading Climate risks: Towards adaptive and resilient European Societies) in 2023 and builds upon their empirical research and developed policy models (Strategic Simulations And Serious Game, 2024). Simulating a global food crisis in 2028, players take on the roles of different global stakeholders and become members of the “European Taskforce on global food supply”. Their goal is to develop recommendations on how to set regulations to counteract the global crisis. Therefore, they not only have to discuss, negotiate and agree on solutions but must also react to the latest political, economic and societal changes.