World Climate Game: an educational tool for tackling the climate crisis

Summer Campus KPH Vienna & Lower Austria

25–27 August 2025

Following the great success of previous years, Globart and Weitblick are continuing the Summer Campus of KPH Vienna/Lower Austria in 2025. In this nationwide training programme, educators get to know the World Climate Game – an educational tool that helps young people face the challenge of the climate crisis with hope and determination!

When: 25–27 August 2025 Where: Melk Abbey (conference rooms, guest house, 2nd floor) Cost: €70 (incl. lunch and refreshments)

Registration: Please send your name and student ID number to heidemarie.dobner@globart.at. Please register soon – places are limited to 30!

The climate crisis has noticeably arrived in Austria. It is complex, multi-layered and threatening. Young people in particular suffer from anxiety about the future and feelings of powerlessness. How can we support them in facing this challenge with hope and determination? The World Climate Game is an evidence-based climate and economic simulation in which participants experience the interactions and connections of the global climate crisis. They take on the roles of decision-makers from politics, business and civil society, develop solutions on their own initiative, and practise cooperation, negotiation and empathy in order to shape the world sustainably together.

This seminar gives participants the opportunity to experience this innovative tool for climate and environmental education first-hand. The practical game experience is then reflected upon with regard to the didactic and methodological potential of “game-based learning”, deepening the learning areas of climate knowledge and global sustainability. In the 2025 winter semester, interested participants will then have the opportunity to train as game facilitators at KPH Vienna/Lower Austria.