Innovative teaching at the CCR: students from three disciplines take an interdisciplinary approach to climate, resilience and serious games. From 10 to 14 March 2025, the first World Climate Game took place as an interdisciplinary block seminar at the Centre for Climate Resilience. This innovative teaching concept combines theoretical knowledge from various disciplines with an experiential component through active participation in the game, in which participants face a realistic climate crisis on a fictitious planet.

For the first time, teachers from the chairs of Urban Climate Resilience, Political Science with a specialization on Climate Policy, and Environmental Economics jointly organised an interdisciplinary block seminar at the Centre for Climate Resilience. Thirty-six students from the fields of political and economic science and geography came together from 10 to 14 March 2025 to tackle a fictitious climate crisis based on scientific assumptions. At the beginning and end of the seminar, there was a scientific exchange on relevant theories and concepts from the three disciplines, on the one hand to create a scientific basis for the experiences in the game and on the other hand to enable holistic learning across one's own disciplinary boundaries. The economic part of the seminar was supervised by Dr Patrick Hoffmann, the political science part by Prof. Dr Angela Oels, and the geographical part by Rouven Kaiser. After the great success and a very positive evaluation, the seminar will take place again for all interested parties in the coming summer semester of 2025 (probably in September).
For further information or questions, please contact Prof. Angela Oels, Dr Patrick Hoffmann or Rouven Kaiser.