Sustainability is defined as “the ability to be maintained at a certain rate or level”, according to the Oxford Dictionary

The energy transition will inevitably have to be introduced soon, and both the process and the time framework of the change are the key to success.

Exeter City features a series of challenges the city faces and offers the Minecraft map for people to test out solutions on.

Democracy is a universally recognized ideal and one of the key principles of the United Nations (defined as goal 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions).

We Are Müesli actively tries to produce inclusive and meaningful experiences focused on such cultural and empathic themes.

While the opportunity to share the game with diverse groups is exciting, it also presents challenges for translating it for such groups.

Ongoing, Flint Water Crisis has highlighted the importance of the relationship between communities and drinking water infrastructure managers.

The UN Regional Information Centre for Western Europe has developed the Go Goals! – a board game, targeted mainly at children. Play Go Goals!

In Cantor’s World, you play the role of a chief decision-maker of a country. The other players would be chief decision-makers of different countries. You set what goals you want to achieve at the outset, in terms of which Sustainable Development Goals you wish to achieve.

Darcy Hitchcock from the Sustainability Alliance in Arizona has developed not one but two games which can be applied in the children’s education context: Sustainability in Schools for teachers and administrators, and Save the Climate for pupils.

You may raise environmental awareness among youth and inspire them to think about the Earth in a more long-term perspective by engaging them in serious games. The closest opportunity to get familiar with one of them – New Shores – a Game for Democracy coincides with the celebrations of the World Environmental Day!

Thanks to their versatile nature, games and simulation tools are now widely appreciated by academics and businesses and willingly employed as a significant component of multipartner projects. We have had a chance to ask Dr Jamie O’Brien about how the Cimplex project incorporated games.