Serious games for modelling sustainability skills and competencies

In the last decade, sustainability skills have become critical for preparing the future workforce and efforts have been made to implement sustainability principles across various disciples. In this context, serious games have been promoted as a viable approach that can be used to reshape the learning environments and facilitate the development of sustainability skills and competencies. Serious games are known to make learning interesting and fun, and they have been employed to create engaging spaces for learning, spaces where students have more freedom and take more responsibility. This paper seeks to explore how serious games can foster the acquisition of key sustainability skills and competencies, frequently needed on the labour market. Three games have been analysed starting from their specificity such as the narrative and educational context, the target group, the game mechanics used, up to the identification of sustainability skills and competencies that can be acquired during the game play and the pedagogical methodologies used to acquire certain skills and competencies.