A Simulation Game on Sustainable Diets and their Contribution to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – its Effect on Learning Outcomes to Support Education for Sustainable Development (ESD)

The interest in sustainable diets gained importance as it has been recognized that a change in consumption patterns, especially in industrialized countries, is urgently needed to overcome global environmental, social, and economic challenges. Nutrition is acknowledged to be linked to all seventeen United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Therefore, a change of nutrition can have major contributions to achieve the SDGs. A promising method in Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) is offered by a simulation game as an action and experiential teaching method, to make systemic connections in sustainable development more tangible. Using an internet-based software, a simulation game on sustainable diets and their contribution to the SDGs was developed and applied as a tool in five test runs, to assess its effect on young adults' learning outcomes to support ESD and achieve more sustainable diets.