Raw Materials Challenge Simulation
The Raw Materials Challenge Simulation places participants in a near-future world where the demand for critical minerals is skyrocketing due to the global clean energy transition, while climate-driven disasters - floods, droughts, cyclones, heatwaves, and wildfires - threaten to disrupt extraction sites, refineries, and key trade routes. As mineral supply chains grow more fragile, social and environmental concerns intensify, with communities worldwide facing exploitation, health risks, and land degradation. Despite clear warning signs, global actors still struggle to deliver a coordinated response to cascading climate emergencies.
Within this simulation, participants step into the roles of government officials, industry representatives, researchers, and civil society actors navigating a fast-moving crisis illustrated through videos, news reports, maps, and social media updates. As severe storms shut down ports, classification rules shift, and political pressures mount, players must negotiate, confront competing interests, and work toward collective decisions. The experience culminates in developing a proposal for a new international regulation - the Charter on Raw Materials for Energy Transition - aimed at securing a fair, resilient, and sustainable minerals supply chain.
Watch the explainer video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfDP9-6OvnQ
Access the simulation:
https://rawmaterials.socialsimulations.org/
The Future of Food Simulation
The Future of Food Simulation explores how the global food system - already deeply entangled with trade, security, and finance - faces growing vulnerability as climate impacts such as floods, tropical cyclones, wildfires, droughts, and heatwaves become more frequent and severe. It highlights how these shocks can rapidly cascade across regions, disrupt supply chains, raise food prices, and threaten communities worldwide. The simulation also shows how food production practices affect biodiversity, land use, and the climate crisis itself, creating a feedback loop of escalating risks.
This online, narrative-driven experience places participants in the near future, where unfolding events are presented through videos, news updates, and social media posts. Players must react to cascading crises, debate policy options, and collaborate on strategies to strengthen food security. Depending on the version (Global or European), participants work in dedicated groups tackling issues such as free trade, agrochemical regulation, resilience to food crises, biodiversity impacts, foreign policy, and agricultural finance.
Watch the explainer video:
https://youtu.be/_1XcZMdutFg?si=YgANxipUq1Xf57A4
Access the simulation:
https://futureoffood.socialsimulations.org/
Arctic Future Simulation
The Arctic Future Simulation explores a rapidly changing Arctic where rising temperatures, shrinking ice cover, and shifting weather patterns trigger cascading climate impacts that reshape ecosystems, economies, and human settlements. Built around the premise of an increasingly ice-free Arctic, the simulation places participants in the year 2035, when new shipping routes, geopolitical tensions, and environmental risks collide in unprecedented ways.
Participants step into the roles of high-level officials from Arctic states, negotiating and voting on a treaty that governs economic development, maritime routes, environmental protections, and social considerations in the region. Throughout the experience, their decisions are challenged by breaking news, narrative twists, and scientifically grounded storylines delivered through videos, articles, maps, and social media content. The simulation focuses on three major themes: the future of Arctic trade and shipping, societal impacts and compensation schemes, and the protection of fragile Arctic ecosystems.
Watch the explainer video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpxWhGNofO0
Access the simulation:
https://arcticfuture.socialsimulations.org/
