The free game, due to be completed early next year and funded by the European Union, will enable players to compete with each other across Europe and build key employment skills.
The project, funded by Erasmus+, the European Union programme for education and training, involves five European countries with one college from each country helping to roll out the novel teaching tool.
The interactive game, currently named “Enterprise - a Serious Game”, will be marketed in Austria, Czech Republic, Spain, the Netherlands and the UK and will develop key skills identified by businesses across the five EU countries as important to economic growth.
CRC was chosen to head the UK’s involvement in the project because of the college’s reputation for games design and enterprise - meaning schools and colleges in the region will be among the first to try the game, currently being developed by educational games experts in the Czech Republic and the Netherlands.
Lecturer Julia Johnson, who is heading the project for CRC, said the free game would give young people the chance to learn essential business skills.
“The game will offer students across Europe the opportunity to become more enterprising as an employee or entrepreneur,” she said.
“It will be fun to play, but it will be a serious game which will engage students and develop their international entrepreneurial competences.
“These skills increase the number of business start-ups and essentially drive the success of all innovative companies and Europe’s wider economies.
“For all businesses that want to grow, innovate, access new markets and be sustainable, entrepreneurial skills are vital for all employees, not just potential entrepreneurs.
”This is an online game that takes enterprise seriously; giving learners across Europe the opportunity to develop employment skills for a seriously bright future.”
The make-up of the game will help businesses, schools and colleges to develop training programmes and learning materials to meet the increasing demand for intrepreneurial and entrepreneurial attitudes and behaviours.
To find out more about the game and to be among the first to use it, email Julia Johnson on jjohnson@camre.ac.uk
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