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Student Assistant Wanted: Help facilitate the Eyes of the Future Game!
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🧠 Organize and facilitate fun, impactful gameplay sessions
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👥 Learn to lead groups of 20–200 students in an interactive experience
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🎨 Contribute ideas for improving the game
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🕒 2–4 flexible hours/week for one academic year
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🤝 Become part of a small, motivated team or Copernicus Institute researchers
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💡 Gain valuable experience in facilitation and sustainability education
🎥 Interviews on June 2 (14:00–16:00) via Teams.
Een terugblik op de UU Onderwijsparade 2021: Connecting communities
Karin en Rose-Anne ontwikkelden in 2019 de Utrecht 2040 Game: een serious game die studenten laat kennismaken met duurzaamheid aan de hand van de Sustainable Development Goals. In het gesprek kwam goed naar voren hoe bevlogen hun samenwerking was geweest. Deze vormde een brug tussen de maatschappij en het onderwijs. Studenten die het spel speelden waren vaak zo geïnspireerd dat zij na afloop ook graag verder wilden met het ontwikkelen van duurzame doelen. Wellicht wordt het spel hiervoor in de toekomst door ontwikkeld met een interactief platform.
https://www.uu.nl/nieuws/een-terugblik-op-de-uu-onderwijsparade-2021-connecting-communities
Karin Rebel: Games can communicate sustainability in a fun way
Karin Rebel is leading the development of Utrecht 2040, a novel game on sustainability that will be rolled out to incoming students from two faculties at Utrecht University in September. It is hoped that it can be available university-wide in the near future. So what’s in a game?
https://www.uu.nl/en/news/karin-rebel-games-can-communicate-sustainability-in-a-fun-way
Students play interactive game for a sustainable Utrecht
Do not be surprised when you see groups of students walking around in the city centre of Utrecht, staring at their smartphones, during the first two weeks of September. It is not the new Pokémon or Harry Potter craze. It is the Utrecht 2040 game where sustainability challenges are presented that can immediately be accepted by the players. In real life, in Utrecht.
https://www.uu.nl/en/news/students-play-interactive-game-for-a-sustainable-utrecht
Utrecht 2040 Game sends students into the city
All students at the university should become acquainted with the topic of sustainability, Utrecht University believes. It’s not easy to devise something that makes both art history students and mathematics students enthusiastic about this topic. But the reaction of Karin Rebel, head lecturer at the Copernicus Institute for Sustainable Development was “Exciting!”. In 2019, she and colleagues Joost Vervoort and Astrid Mangnus and game company IJsfontein developed the Utrecht 2040 Game: a serious game that introduces students to sustainability through the Sustainable Development Goals.