CLIENT

The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of 27 member states that are located primarily in Europe.

BRIEF

As part of a consortium including university, non-profit, and enterprise partners from Germany, France, Spain, and Italy, we submitted an application to a project call for innovative teaching content about climate change from Erasmus+, the EU's program to support education, training, youth and sport in Europe.

PROJECT

Our role is to direct the consortium’s research efforts in a manner that is useful to the game and to develop the physical escape game within the following constraints:

• minimum preparation time for teachers

• accessibility to under-resourced classrooms

• flexibility across multiple classroom configurations, class sizes of 3 - 45 students, and class durations of 45 - 135 minutes

The game is entirely paper-based, playable in groups of 3-5 students, and has 9 modules, each with an estimated 15-minute playtime. Students play as members of subcommittees on Housing, Parks, & Transportation departments in a fictional city who have been locked into a room by a rogue mayor until they provide climate-forward policy recommendations that would be acceptable to a variety of political groups.

Our first round of testing took place in schools across Europe in June 2023 to excellent results. We are currently preparing a second round of testing for January 2024.

LINK

Contact us to set up a test at your school in France, Germany, Italy, or Spain.

Read more about the Escape Climate Change Initiative here.