Teaching materials in English about the EU

The role-playing game about the future of the EU is a game designed to
engage 12 – 30 students for approximately 2½ hours. The purpose of the
role-playing game is to encourage students to participate in a lively and
nuanced debate on the following topics:

1. The EU budget (session 1)
2. EU asylum and refugee policy (session 2 – optional)

The game consists of the following materials:

• 1 Teacher’s Manual
• 1 PowerPoint presentation for the teacher
• 1 spreadsheet for the teacher
• 1 sheet with interventions for session 2 about migration for the teacher
• 12 role cards for the students for session 1 about the EU budget
• 12 role cards for the students for session 2 about migration
• 1 fact sheet to be printed and distributed to the 12 country groups
• 12 cards with the flags and names of the 12 participating EU member states (to be placed in front of each group at the negotiating table)

The role-playing game on the EU’s defence and security policy is designed to engage 20–40 students over approximately 2–3 hours. It can be played in full over three rounds, or shortened to just the first two. In this role-playing game, students take on the role of the government of an EU member state. Each group must lead their country through a political conflict between two fictional nations located at the EU’s external border, and actively participate in the lively and nuanced debates at the negotiation table in every round.

The game consists of the following materials:

• 1 Teacher’s Manual (print x1)
• 1 PowerPoint presentation for the teacher
• 10 Instruction-sheet for the students, EU Proposal (Round 1-3), Information Overview, Economic Overview for round 2 (print x10)

• 1 Measure Cards for round 1 (print x1)
• 10 Government briefings round 1 (print x1)
• 1 Resource sanction cards for round 2 (print x1)
• 10 Government briefings round 2 (print x1)
• 10 Government briefings round 3 (print x1)

This role-playing game about EU meat consumption is designed to engage 20–40 students over approximately 2–3 hours. In the game, students take on the role of the government of an EU member state and debate how EU countries should respond to Europeans’ meat consumption. The purpose of the role-playing game is to encourage students to participate in a lively and nuanced debate on two potential policy packages, revolving around the question: should the EU introduce a special climate tax on meat products or reduce its agricultural subsidies to meat producers?

The game consists of the following materials:

• Teacher’s Manual (print x1)
• PowerPoint presentation for the teacher
• Rolecards for the EU climate diplomats (print on both sides) (print x how many students there are in each group)
• Solution packages (Print x8 – one for each country)
• Fact-sheet (print x8 on both sides – one for each country)