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Pioneers into Practice 2019 – Introductory workshop in Warsaw

Pioneers into Practice programme edition for 2019 started with Introductory Workshop in Warsaw. The goal of the workshop was to introduce pioneers into the programme and its methodology as well as create teams that will work on the group...

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New Shores – a Game for Democracy among the winners in Educator’s Challenge

On May 15, 2019, the Educators’ Challenge Awards’ Ceremony was organized by the Global Challenges Foundation. The event held at the Old Theatre of LSE- Institute of Global Affairs gathered 10 finalists of the Educators’ Challenge competition. They...

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What is a social simulation? The Educators’ Challenge Awards’ Ceremony

What is a social simulation? How and to whom can you apply it? And what does it have to do with the concept of "social drama"? This is what you will learn from the short slide show that we...

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Ruritage Training Workshop: From seed to sapling, first step in growing the RURITAGE knowledge tree

More than 70 Consortium members from the Ruritage project took part in the Ruritania game workshop on Tuesday, March 19. Representing Replicators, Role Models, Knowledge Facilitators and other Ruritage partners, the 70 participants were split into three simultaneous game...

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Apply to Pioneers into Practice

Get out of your comfort zone and make innovation happen! The call for the pioneers and hosting institutions in Pioneers into Practice programme is open for submissions! Pioneers into Practice is Europe’s only knowledge development and placement programme aimed...

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Testing an advanced prototype of Sustainable Urban Heating Simulation in Graz, Austria

Team including Piotr Magnuszewski, Jenan Irshaid and Junko Mochizuki with the support from Marta Magnuszewska, hosted a social simulation workshop at the Wegener Center for Climate and Global Change at University of Graz. The Sustainable Urban Heating Simulation (SUHS) has...

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Teaching sustainability – Using simulation to reach the SDGs in regional transformation course

This two-day webinar provided participants an opportunity to play the new online adaptation of the popular social simulation, The World’s Future Online. On the first day of the webinar/workshop, participants adopted the roles of department heads from three countries:...

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The RURITAGE test with students of Wyższa Szkoła Filologiczna

Two first-year English philology classes had the opportunity to play Ruritania, a simulation developed by the Centre for Systems Solutions as part of the Ruritage project. The Ruritania focuses on rural regeneration using cultural heritage - this includes developing...

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