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Announcing new Membership with Catalyst Now

Written by Andre Boeing on . Posted in Allgemein.

I am happy to announce that I have been selected as a new member of Catalyst Now. Catalyst Now is a dynamic global movement of social innovators transforming systems and driving sustainable change to advance the UN Sustainable Development Goals worldwide. We unite social innovators, social entrepreneurs, civic society, funders, private sector leaders, academia, and governments to create lasting systemic change through collaborative action.

The co-creative mindset, spirit of generosity, humble audacity, collaborative leadership, and nature with people at the centre as core values resonate deeply with my own. As I have been collaborating with Catalyst Now members around the world in the last months, I could witness the values lived in co-creative action.

My “Trinity” of partnerships is now complete. The Jena Declaration and project partnership with the UNESCO Chair on Global Understanding for Sustainability, The Conscious Food Systems Alliance convened by UNDP and Now the Catalyst community of social innovators.

I am grateful for all the passionate, people around the world dedicated to help the “Great Quest” of growing into a sustainable, regenerative way of living – with each other, in our beautiful, wonderful, shared home.

To learn more, visit the website:

catalystnow.net/about/

The SWAG 1Y Anniversary Summer Edition launched – free card design templates, a Multiplayer Story and a course

Written by Andre Boeing on . Posted in Allgemein.

The SWAG 1Y Anniversary Summer Edition launched – free card design templates, a Multiplayer Story and a course

July 15th 2025 by André Boeing

☀️ Free Wastemonsters- and Recycling-Mod Card Templates (A6 standard postcard format) representing real waste types and recycling methods — plus free bonus graphics and a video tutorial course on how to adapt the game cards to your context in Education for Sustainable Development and your region, using the free, open-source graphic design software Krita.

☀️ “SWA – The Great Cycle”: An interactive story for 1–3 players as an immersive introduction to the Smart Waste Agency Game (The SWAG), the World of waste types and recycling — featuring different pathways to face our global waste challenge. Also suitable for classroom settings.

☀️ Our 1-Year Summer Anniversary Edition of The SWAG, co-developed with 64 young designers aged 7–15 during the 2024 summer and autumn holiday Playshops in Germany, is out!

You can join the free course, download the material, and experience the story on our website:

🌐 www.the-swag.eu

Thanks a lot Odin Mühlenbein, AI Tinkerer on a chosenpath.ai, for collaborating on this story and the invitation to test the AI story engine in beta — it rocks!

Thank you so much to all the young participants and youth organization partners who co-created during our holiday Playshops 2024. Our photos give a good impression of the analogue and digital skills, and the joyful, playful creation of games for a serious topic.

📷Summer 2024 Photostory

We are now looking forward to see, what you will do with the Card templates and Story on the-swag.eu 🙂

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New Partnership with The Jena Declaration at UNESCO Chair on Global Understanding for Sustainability

Written by Andre Boeing on . Posted in Allgemein.

It is with great joy to announce our fresh ktopia project partnership with The Jena Declaration (TJD) at the UNESCO Chair on Global Understanding for Sustainability.

The principles of the Declaration resonate deeply with Ktopia values and approach to open, grassroots educational game world design intended to spark joy—joy in actively becoming involved in “The Great Quest” of learning to live sustainably, regeneratively, planetary.

“Meaningful, sustainable change can only be achieved if every person on the planet changes their everyday routines, practices, and mindset. This must be true in business, government, schools, and at home.” is one of TJD’s principles.

Play sparks curiosity and invites us to face challenges with joy. Games offer ways to explore, grow, and even learn through failure. Ktopia invites people into narrative education worlds about sustainable living and supports them in co-creating open-source, analogue–digital games as Open Educational Resources. (OER)

In our partnership we wish to explore collaboration in the playful appropriation of the principles of The Jena Declaration through approaches inspired by co-creative game design, prioritizing Africa–Europe partnerships. We also explore collaborative promotion and dissemination of Ktopia eduGames (SWAG, FSYSgame) in combination with the principles of the TJD.

The last weeks have been a wonderful “getting to know each other” with TJD’s Dr. Martin Repohl and UNESCO Chair Prof. Dr. Benno Werlen. To experience Benno’s passion, compassion, commitment, impressive background, and wide, interdisciplinary thinking is inspiring. To join a rich, soil network of currently 65 worldwide TJD project partners—including the World Academy of Art and Science as well as the Club of Rome—makes us grateful.

To a fruitful 🌳 and wonderful partnership. A joyful “Cheers!” 🥂

with our ktopia project partners Ibrahim Gadzama, Jana Fuhrmann-Heise and ktopia founder André Boeing