For ages: 10-12 – Languages: NL – Rating:⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Free game.
Discover the impact of plastic pollution.
In an escape game, students learn about how plastic pollution affects ecosystems, animals, and people worldwide. They also find out how they can help protect nature. Can they use their imagination and solve all the challenges in time to save the planet? This game is offered in partnership with the Jane Goodall Institute.
Link to website: Save the World from Plastic
For ages: 12-99 – Languages: NL-EN -DE Rating:⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Paid game.
With the Core Values Game®, you discover your true priorities.
Explore various game modes to identify core values for yourself and others, link them to professions, and understand their daily significance and contributions to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Engage in creative problem-solving together.
The game promotes meaningful conversations, provides enjoyment, and offers endless replayability. Tip cards add depth on topics like effective listening, creative thinking, future planning, and SDGs.
Ideal for citizenship lessons, career orientation, sustainable development projects, and introduction programs. Also useful for developing an educational vision (organizational development).
Includes a storage tin with 60 core value cards, 7 game variants, and 9 tip cards. Online resources include explanations of the core values, creative thinking techniques, and a detailed list of professions from A to Z.
Link to website: Core Values Game®
For ages: 16+ – Languages: NL – Rating:⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Paid game.
From the will to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals more broadly and deeply, and to show the interplay between these goals, Willem Bennenbroek and Marieke van Hoof, together with Radboud University, came up with the game Rice Up. In this serious game, you as a player take on the role of a rice farmer in Rurori. You want enough money in the bank, food on your plate and a good future for your children in a healthy living environment. But, that turns out not to be so easy. Rice Up focuses on mapping the dynamics between SDGs. Gradually, this dynamic quickly shows itself in an interactive way.In order to explain the connections between the 17 SDGs, Cultural Anthropology lecturers at the Radboud University, Luuk van Kempen and Lau Schelpen decided to develop a board game. In this ‘serious game’ players experience the daily life of a rice farmer and learn how issues such as food security, farming practices and education interact.
In addition to the everyday choices you will face as a rice farmer in Rurori, your SDG knowledge will be tested and unexpected events will come your way. Knowledge questions are used to ask general information about the SDGs and the current status of these goals. Through event cards, players learn to anticipate their choices and master the system of the Sustainable Development Goals in a playful way. All choices have an effect on your community and your joint SDG score, which you can easily keep track of on our online dashboard. Players try to establish a sustainable future for Rurori together and develop a suitable strategy together. Players manage to achieve larger goals despite inequalities keep seeing? Remember: only together can we achieve the SDGoals.
Link to website: Rice Up
For ages: 5-18 – Languages: FR – Rating:⭐⭐⭐ Free game.
Funny Planet combines resources in a way that is both interdisciplinary and systemic. It organises activities according to age-group, by starting close to home for young children and presenting older players with planetary challenges.
Experiential, Sensory, Critical,
The activities are innovative by being experiential, embodied, collective and active. At the same time, players are encouraged to think deeply about sustainability issues. The games can be played online or downloaded.
Link to website: Funny Planet
For ages: 10-12 – Languages: NL – Rating:⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Paid game
“As experienced …………appeal to learners.” The assignments encourage creative thinking and motivate pupils to integrate their own input.
Citizenship education in practice
Do you want your pupils to participate enthusiastically and creatively in citizenship education? Download the free assignments for an impression of the materials on offer. The Goals2030 website offers step-by-step plans and more than 150 videos.
Link to website: Goals2030
For ages: 12-99 – Languages: NL-EN-DE – Rating:⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Paid game.
The Future Lab Game®, together with the Core Values Game®, is part of the FutureLab. Schools can organise a FutureLabGame® themselves, but can also use both games separately and independently. The games are suitable for sustainability projects, career orientation programmes, or citizenship and mentoring classes.
Knowledge and awareness of the Sustainable Development Goals
This paid game is also suitable for adults, for example as a team game in companies. It promotes knowledge and awareness of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Link to website: Future Lab Game ®
For ages: 10-16 – Languages: DE – Rating:⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Free game.
The game allows students to experience the finiteness of a renewable raw material in the event of overuse. They take on the role of three foresters, who in the first round, compete with each other and try to harvest as many trees as possible for themselves. In a second round, the students cooperate with each other and manage the forest together. The game shows them that excessive timber removal endangers the existence of the forest and that sustainable management under competitive conditions is difficult.
Health and Safety of the Environment
The game introduces the players to the complexities of maintaining the health and safety of a natural environment.
Link to website: The Matchstick Game
