How can you, as student representatives, get new ideas and motivation to improve your school life? The card game "School Heroes" offers suggestions for tackling challenges. During the game, you are a team of experienced students who have been involved in school life for a long time. Together, you investigate the problems and wishes of the other students and decide which project is the best solution to your challenge.
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Not every school has the same opportunities for participation in school life. The game "School Heroes" is designed to encourage you to make your school more active, creative, and vibrant.
It was developed by Justus Kiese as a project during his time in the Voluntary Year Participation 2025/26 (Democracy & DialogueSupported by the educational team at wannseeFORUM, Justus adapted the games. „AI Compass“ of the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society gGmbH and neuland & gestalten gGmbH as well as „Data Heroes“ taken over by the German Informatics Society (Gesellschaft für Informatik eV), which is known as Open Educational Resources/OER These materials have been published under Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0. OER stands for freely accessible, free-to-use, and often editable educational materials that are released under open licenses.
„School Heroes“ is therefore also a material that is available to everyone as OER. freely available stands.
Play materials
„School Heroes“ was tested in many trial rounds, e.g. at Student mentor seminars or in jugendBEIRAT.




All Photos in the game originate from seminars of the wannseeFORUM Foundation (Flickr collection of the wannseeFORUM)
Downloads
Card game for download: Print and cut out
(large PDF approx. 70 MB)