SOCIOPOLIS – BOARD GAME
GATES-Building skills for social entrepreneurship


Description
Project’s main objective is to enhance the employ-ability of young people and their position in the labour market, developing their competencies and skills for social entrepreneurship through game based learning. In order to achieve this main objective, project aims to:
- Assess the situation of sub-employed young persons;
- Detect their training needs with regards to social entrepreneurship;
- Determinate a set of competences and skills (both hard and soft) that define social entrepreneur;
- Develop a new pedagogical methodology based on games to promote social entrepreneurship among young people;
- Design a training tool base on a previous pedagogical approach;
- Build an informal, open and collaborative environment that supports learning and facilitates knowledge and ideas sharing, while promoting joint entrepreneurship activities (peer-mentoring approach);
- Create a critical mass on project topic and involve different actors, enhancing the multi stakeholder approach;
- Define the transfer-ability and compatibility of the developed approach to other young people collectives and to other learning areas.
Title: GATES – Building skills for social entrepreneurship. Game based training to answer the disruptive shift that will reshape the youth workforce landscape
Running dates: January 2018 – June 2019
Programme: Erasmus+ KA2 Strategic Partnerships in the field of Youth
ID number: 2017-2-PL01-KA205-039199
Website: https://play4impact.eu/
Play the Sociopolis board game
The aim of the game is to earn as many ‘happiness points’ as possible. Happiness points represent your social impact on society. The player who collects the most happiness points after the final fifth turn wins. Each player owns and runs a restaurant.
During the game, you make decisions to develop your business: hire employees, take care of the conditions at work, build a good reputation, earn money and get the ingredients needed to meet your customers’ demands. The key to the game to grow your business while creating as much social impact as you can.
Find more info about the Sociopolis game rules below.
How to play Sociopolis:
- Download all the files below
- Print the pdf files
- Read the handbook (game’s rules)
- Play the game and…ENJOY!!