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Simulation Exercise, Boardgame
CARE - Climate Action Roleplay Experience
CARE is a free educational role-playing game where players become forest species working together to protect nature and raise climate awareness. Through strategy and collaboration, they face 30 years of challenges to balance ecosystems and human needs.
Aims of the tool
* Raise awareness about climate change and the value of ecosystems
* Promote collaboration, critical thinking, and systems thinking
* Encourage empathy toward nature through role-play
* Support non-formal environmental education for young people
Description of the tool
CARE – Climate Action Role-playing Experience A free, educational role-playing game to engage young people in climate action. Developed as part of an Erasmus+ project involving three youth organisations from Italy, Poland and Croatia, CARE combines storytelling, strategy and collaboration to create an immersive learning experience.
Age 16 to 30
Players 9-30
Duration: 90-120 minutes
Available in English, Italian, Polish, and Croatian
Released under Creative Commons CC-BY-SA 4.0 license
CARE is a non-formal educational role-playing game created to raise awareness about climate change and our deep dependence on nature. Players take on the role of forest species — mammals, fungi, insects, birds, and more — and must work together to protect the forest from human expansion, while also teaching humans the value of ecosystems.
Each group holds Natural Capital tokens, representing the services ecosystems provide (like clean air, fertile soil, biodiversity). These are spent to "satisfy" human needs while trying to avoid the destruction of the forest. Over six rounds (30 years in-game), players must balance cooperation and competition to ensure survival.
You can find all the materials free to download and distribute under the CC-BY-SA 4.0 License at
https://epale.ec.europa.eu/en/resource-centre/content/care-climate-action-roleplaying-experience
For more informations and downloads https://asnuaps.it/care
https://asnu.itch.io/care
You can also fine a video in English explaining how to run the games at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5YMcFBVlbA
Disclaimer
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Tool overview
http://toolbox.salto-youth.net/4933
This tool is for
Young participants between 16-30 years old, even though it has been tested with 14+ and it worked quite well
and addresses
Environment
It is recommended for use in:
Youth Exchanges
Training and Networking
Materials needed:
Printed material attached down
Flipchart
tokens
hexagon sheets
Duration:
90 to 120 mins
Behind the tool
The tool was created by
ASNU aps
in the context of
Erasmus+ Project CARE - Climate Action Roleplay Experience, ID: 2023-1-IT03-KA210-YOU-000153555
The tool has been experimented in
Training, Youth Exchanges, Schools, awareness events
The tool was published to the Toolbox by
manuel moscariello (on 18 June 2025)
and last modified
27 May 2025
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