Evacuation Challenge Game

Dealing with cultural differences and disabilities in disaster response

Evacuation Challenge Game

Dealing with cultural differences and disabilities in disaster response

Evacuation in the face of a disaster poses a challenge for all parties involved. Panic and confusion are no friends to neither the rescue team nor to the evacuees. But there are many more obstacles on the road to safety than people normally think of. The Evacuation Challenge Game is just the right tool to help you realize them.

The Evacuation Challenge Game presents challenges connected with disaster response and evacuation during a disaster (in this case – a zombie apocalypse!) in a culturally and linguistically diverse environment. Participants take on the roles of citizens and rescue team members, soon realizing that the road to safety won’t be easy.

Benefits

Understand problems connected with language barriers during risk situations

Experience problems encountered by people with disabilities

Check how language and culture differences affect the work of emergency crews

Learn the challenges connected with evacuation in a multicultural and multilingual environment

Realise the importance of cooperation and communication

Train decision making and communication skills in a fully realistic game environment

Watch a video from the game

Technical details

1 - 2 hours

12 - 72 players

1 big room

Download the game

You can download the game (elements that can be printed) and the instructions on how to run the game.

English

Read Terms of use. You can also invite us to run a game workshop for you, take part in the training for moderators and order a set of the game.

It cannot be distributed on another website. If you want to modify our game, please contact us.

Translate the game to your language

You can run the game in the native language of your participants.

Contact us for further information how to do that!

Contact us

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 653874

The game was designed and developed in the project “European Disasters in Urban centres: a Culture Expert Network” within the EU Horizon 2020 Programme.