Eurbanities Game Based Learning for the Just Transition of Cities

<< Objectives >>Justurbanities aims to empower urban communities of disadvantaged neighbourhoods to find participation-based answers to the challenges of the “multi-crisis era”, including health-related lockdowns, energy crises, and geopolitical conflicts. With the direct involvement of educators, trainees, and local communities, a digital game-based learning curriculum is created, targeting citizens, stakeholders, and civil servants/municipal employees involved in the execution of local policies.<< Implementation >>Justurbanities envisions the following main activities:Gathering and exchanging knowledge on local needs, good practices, future scenarios, learning methods.Co-designing the game and curriculum at local and transnational workshops and online sessions.Learning and testing game and curriculum prototypes at local workshops and transnational trainings.Building a European community of educators, citizens, municipal workers, and professionals through dissemination and the Justurbanities platform.<< Results >>Justurbanities plans 5 main results:1.Seven Local Stakeholders' Panels are formed.2.Local needs, best practices, and future scenarios are gathered.3.A digital game and a curriculum embedding it are codesigned and tested, an interactive platform created- 4.Educators, trainers and local community members learned about resilience, participation, curriculum building and game development. 5Transnational community of educators, trainers, citizens, municipal workers and decision makers is formed.