Ecopolicyad

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The Ecopolicyade is a nationwide project that as a student competition on the basis of by Frederic Vester developed PC simulation ecopolicy the cybernetic stimulate and networked thinking and to promote. Founded by two teachers from Schleswig-Holstein, Hans-Werner Hansen and Wilfried D. John, the ecopolicyade has existed in Schleswig-Holstein since 2005 and took place nationwide for the first time in 2008. The first national victory was secured in May 2009 by a school team from North Rhine-Westphalia, in 2011 by a team from Brandenburg and in 2012 by the team from Schleswig-Holstein. The project has been run as an international project by Malik Management St.Gallen AG since 2012. B. in Austria, Poland, the Netherlands, Australia and Vietnam. Since the 2013/2014 school year, the ecopolicyade has not been held in Germany or Austria.

Background - the game

The round-based PC simulation ecopolicy (published by MCB-Publishing House, Munich) is a schematic representation of complex relationships in politics and society. The vividly illustrated game can be played in three different, fictional countries, the industrialized country of cybernetics , the emerging country of Cybinnia and the developing country of Cyboria . What all three states have in common is that you steer the fortunes of your country by investing action points (which should represent money, power, personnel, experts and the like). However, only four of the eight areas of activity can be influenced directly. In order to achieve the desired state of paradise, i.e. to bring all the sectors marked with a refined traffic light system into the deep green area, you have a maximum of twelve laps. However, it is also possible to win beforehand or, if at least one area has slipped into dark red, to be ousted by a coup. Therefore, the player must always keep an eye on all points and keep them in balance, as one-sided investments can quickly lead to failure.

Areas of Effect

  • politics
  • Renovation can be influenced directly
  • Production can be influenced directly
  • environment
  • Education can be influenced directly
  • Quality of life can be influenced directly
  • growth of population
  • population

The action points for the next round are calculated from the areas of politics, production, quality of life and population. The areas affect each other with variable strength, for example an extremely low educational value in the industrialized country lowers the quality of life and at the same time increases the rate of increase (However, a very low quality of life lowers this again a bit, as does a very high one. The quality of life is in the medium range , it increases the rate of reproduction.) The rate of reproduction in turn increases the population, which, if the values ​​are too high, has a negative effect on the quality of life, which in turn has a negative effect on politics. As a result, due to the poor quality of life and politics, there may be fewer action points available in the next round, but the high population increases this value a bit. If, on the other hand, the education is in the medium range, it increases the quality of life and the rate of reproduction. Only in the green area does it ensure that growth levels off to a medium level and, with higher values, increases the quality of life further and further.

The starting values ​​(which can be changed by the player after all countries have once been brought to the Pardiesstatus) are different from country to country, and the effects also differ. To stay with the above example: In the developing country, education values ​​in the middle range have an extremely negative effect on the quality of life, which is explained by the rejection and the fight against proselytizing.

Within each country, because the game is also an "open system", you can activate "Good News" and CBad News ", that is, random" event cards "that have negative or positive effects on the state of one or more areas Simulate unexpected challenges.

mode

Schoolchildren in grades 7 to 10 have registered for the competition. All they have to do is submit their results from the industrialized country of cybernetics and the emerging country of cybinnia . It is played because promoting joint action and social and team behavior is an important goal of the competition, in teams of two or three. The ecopolicy software is made available to all schools in advance. The best groups were invited to the regional decision. There, the first placed from the mostly eight teams qualified first. In addition to these top teams, the nationwide best runners-up also came through, so there is a "lucky loser rule". All participants in the regional decision were rewarded with attractive prizes. The winner of the decision at state level was allowed to take part in the national competition from 2009 to 2012, the "podium finishers" receive cash or material prizes.

So that the reference to "real politics" is established and the students are shown the opportunities and diverse application possibilities of cybernetic thinking, celebrities and decision-makers from business, administration and politics were present at every regional and state decision, who tried their hand at the simulation , but seldom achieve scores with which they could beat students.

history

After pupils from the Malente secondary school challenged the district council on the initiative of their teachers, they competed on May 12, 2004 against a team from the Ostholstein district council. The clear defeat of the politicians motivated the ninth graders to also challenge the state parliament. This hurdle was also cleared and so nothing stood in the way of the competition against members of the Bundestag on January 19, 2005. Again, the politicians were subject to what was worth a report for the heute-journal and the KI.KA and thus the media presence of the students, who had already made it public with their one-off campaign through radio and newspaper reports, all of a sudden brought the desired level.

The organizers had caught fire and held a nationwide competition in the summer of that year, in which all students in grades 8-10. Class. The software was made available to all schools in Schleswig-Holstein. The competition was supported by some sponsors as well as by the state parliament of Schleswig-Holstein , in the person of the state parliament president, and essentially always took place in the same mode. After the successful events in Schleswig-Holstein, other federal states were also interested in the project. Coordinated by the "ecopolicyade-Büro Maren Hansen", there were competitions in Lower Saxony and Berlin in 2007, which were supported by local celebrities and politicians and took place under the patronage of Klaus Wowereit in Berlin and Christian Wulff in Lower Saxony. The first national winner was announced on May 29, 2009 in Berlin. In the Jakob-Kaiser-Haus of the Bundestag, two students from North Rhine-Westphalia narrowly prevailed against their competitors from Schleswig-Holstein and Bavaria. In addition to representatives of the sponsors, there were also some members of the Bundestag.

Nationwide competition 2008/09

The motto of the competition, which was supported by the Federal Agency for Civic Education for several years , was "Think networked, master the present, shape the future" for the first nationwide event. The long-standing and important supporter Bettina Hagedorn , member of the German Bundestag, from whose constituency the initiative originates, and the license holder of the software, Malik Management , who is particularly interested in promoting responsible and networked thinking and who is committed to the idea and teaching of Frederic Vesters feels obliged, have been vital pillars of the campaign ever since. The owner of the rights at the Frederic Vesters plant, Malik Management St.Gallen AG, has been running the competition on an international basis since 2012. The first projects in the Netherlands, Austria, Poland, Australia and Vietnam have started successfully.

Results 2008/09

  • Federal decision:
  1. North Rhine-Westphalia (represented by Theodor-Heuss-Realschule, Bielefeld)
  2. Schleswig-Holstein (represented by the Klaus Harms School , Kappeln)
  3. Bavaria (represented by Adam-Kraft-Gymnasium, Schwabach)
  • Berlin:
  1. Friedensburg High School
  2. Oppenheim High School
  3. Paulsen High School
  • Bremen:
  1. Albert Einstein School
  2. Albert Einstein School
  3. Lark school
  • Schleswig-Holstein:
  1. Klaus Harms School, Kappeln
  2. Wilhelminenschule, Preetz
  3. Realschule Tellingstedt
Special prize for the most active school: Klaus Harms School, Kappeln
  • Lower Saxony: Felix-Klein-Gymnasium, Göttingen
  • Hamburg: Niels-Stensen-Gymnasium
  • Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania: Friderico-Francisceum-Gymnasium, Bad Doberan
  • Brandenburg: Rangsdorf secondary school
  • North Rhine-Westphalia: Theodor-Heuss-Realschule, Bielefeld
  • Hessen: Old electoral high school in Bensheim
  • Saxony-Anhalt: Elisabeth High School, Halle
  • Saxony: Max Klinger School, Leipzig
  • Thuringia: Jenaplan School, Jena
  • Baden-Württemberg: Comenius Realschule, Wertheim
  • Saarland: ERS Bruchwiese, Saarbrücken
  • Bavaria: Adam-Kraft-Gymnasium, Schwabach
  • Rhineland-Palatinate: Friedrich-Ebert-Hauptschule, Landstuhl

Results 2010

Federal decision on July 2, 2010 in the Marie-Elisabeth-Lüders-Haus of the German Bundestag in Berlin:

1. North Rhine-Westphalia (represented by the Ursuline School, Cologne)

2. Schleswig-Holstein (represented by the Klaus Harms School, Kappeln)

3. Hamburg (represented by the Wilhelm-Gymnasium )

  • Baden-Württemberg: Heisenberg High School, Karlsruhe
  • Bavaria: Louise-Schröder-Gymnasiums, Munich (state decision on June 28th)
  • Berlin: Hermann von Helmholtz School, Berlin-Neukölln
  • Brandenburg: Emil-Fischer-Gymnasium, Schwarzheide (state decision on June 7, 2010)
  • Bremen: Secondary school on Lerchenstrasse (Landesentscheid on April 13, 2010)
  • Hamburg: Wilhelm high school
  • Hessen: Old Electoral High School, Bensheim
  • Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania: Frederico-Francisceum-Gymnasium, Bad Doberan
  • Lower Saxony: HEG, Uelzen
  • North Rhine-Westphalia: Ursuline School, Cologne (state decision on June 21)
  • Rhineland-Palatinate: high school on the Asterstein, Koblenz
  • Saarland: Riegelsberg comprehensive school
  • Saxony-Anhalt: Christian-Wolff-Gymnasium, Halle / Saale
  • Saxony: Luisenstift high school , Radebeul (state decision on June 24, 2010)
  • Schleswig-Holstein: Klaus Harms School, Kappeln (state decision on June 14, 2010)
  • Thuringia: Because of the early vacation, the Thuringian schools decided not to take part in the federal decision.

Results 2011

Federal decision on July 1, 2011 in Berlin:

1. Brandenburg (represented by Emil-Fischer-Gymnasium, Schwarzheide)

2. Hamburg (represented by the Niels-Stensen-Gymnasium)

3. Saxony (represented by the Luisenstift high school, Radebeul) and Schleswig-Holstein (represented by the Klaus Harms School, Kappeln)

  • Baden-Württemberg: Heisenberg High School, Karlsruhe
  • Bavaria: Miesbach high school
  • Berlin: Albrecht Dürer High School , Neukölln
  • Brandenburg: Emil Fischer High School, Schwarzheide
  • Bremen: Albert Einstein High School, Bremen
  • Hamburg: Niels-Stensen-Gymnasium, Harburg
  • Hessen: Old electoral high school in Bensheim
  • Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania: Frederico Franciceum, Bad Doberan
  • Lower Saxony: IGS Fürstenau
  • North Rhine-Westphalia: Inda-Gymnasium, Aachen
  • Rhineland-Palatinate: did not participate in the federal decision.
  • Saarland: GeS Riegelsberg
  • Saxony: Gymnasium Luisenstift Radebeul
  • Saxony-Anhalt: All-day school Burgbreite
  • Schleswig-Holstein: Klaus Harms School Kappeln
  • Thuringia: Lobdeburg School, Jena
  • As a guest team from Austria: HAK Tamsweg

Results 2012

Federal decision on April 27, 2012 in Berlin:

1. Schleswig-Holstein (represented by the Klaus Harms School, Kappeln)

2. Berlin (represented by the Albrecht-Dürer-Gymnasium, Neukölln)

3. Saxony (represented by the Luisenstift high school, Radebeul)

  • Baden-Württemberg: Heisenberg High School, Karlsruhe
  • Bavaria: Walliser Strasse Middle School, Munich
  • Berlin: Dürer-Gymnasium, Neukölln
  • Brandenburg: Emil Fischer High School, Schwarzheide
  • Bremen: Albert Einstein High School, Bremen
  • Hamburg: Niels-Stensen-Gymnasium, Harburg
  • Hessen: Old electoral high school in Bensheim
  • Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania: Frederico Franciceum, Bad Doberan
  • Lower Saxony: Gehrden High School
  • North Rhine-Westphalia: Theodor-Heuss-Realschule, Bielefeld
  • Rhineland-Palatinate: high school on the Asterstein, Koblenz
  • Saarland: GeS Riegelsberg
  • Saxony: Gymnasium Luisenstift Radebeul
  • Saxony-Anhalt: All-day secondary school "Burgbreite", Wernigerode
  • Schleswig-Holstein: Klaus Harms School Kappeln
  • Thuringia: Lobdeburg School, Jena

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Theodor-Heuss-Schule, Bielefeld - students of the THS win the first federal decision of the Ecopolicyade in Berlin
  2. ↑ ecopolicyade - evaluation of the federal states ( memento of the original from June 19, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ecopolicyade.info

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