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In the years 2009 - 2010 we are planning to create in partnership with the Center for System Solutions three decision-making simulation games:

* Fisheries Business: game on the exploitation of renewable resources in terms of competition, for example, fisheries. Participation in the game allows you to look for ways to avoid over-exploitation of resources, often called the "tragedy of the commons";
* Business in climate: the subject of the game is to improve the quality of life in terms of global warming by reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The players representing the national governments and the boards of companies have the task to achieve sustainable development of their country or company;
* Management of basins: The game is aimed at testing various strategies of development of a water catchment area and looking for ways for its sustainability. Players could take the role of farmers or local authorities operating within the catchment.

The games will be put together with methodology on-line and will be made available free of charge, will also be used as a teaching tool for learning by practice during the Summer School.

Decision-making simulation games are excellent, innovative tool for learning through direct experience, which enables high efficiency of education. The player "immersed in the virtual environment, experience many roles is strongly involved to and assimilates more information, learns and can practice the knowledge. Player can repeat efforts many times until he understand the structure of the system and is able to develop relevant decisions to solve the problem. In addition, interaction with other players makes it a very positive and lasting experience. The game creates a kind of "micro world" where you can learn by experience, often with errors, but without incurring the costs of with those errors.

Players often do not fully understand the mechanisms which drive their virtual world, that's why multimedia publications will consist in each case with a set of simulators. These tools will make it possible to look at the system as a whole, understand the relation between its components and look at the dynamic processes that the system is facing. Edukator discussed by using a tool to enhance greatly the quality of education.

Simulators can also be used to search for effective policies and strategies that lead to solve the problems presented in each of the games. This specificity may be the particularly useful in the local government or businesses work.