Dr. Andrea Frank

University of Birmingham, Teaching Fellow at Centre for Urban and Regional Studies, School of Geography Earth and Environmental Sciences
- Teaching on Sustainable Urban Design, English for Planners and International Planning Principles
- Cooperative, self-directed and experimental learning
- Development/Application of simulation games in research and urban/enviromental planning
Dr. Max Monauni

Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Lecturer for Controlling und simulation-based Learning
- Facilitation of >100 business game based lectures, management training and strategy conferences
- Research and publications on gamification elements and blended learning in combination with simulation game concepts
- Doctoral thesis on "Conversion concepts for production networks
Prof. Dr. Stefan Rappenglück

Professorship for Political Science/European Studies at the University of Applied Sciences Munich
- Developer and trainer
- Research and multiple publications concerning also educational-didactic aspects of the simulation game method
- Conferral of Doctorate on the subject of Simulation Games
Prof. Dr. Friedrich Trautwein (Chair)

DHBW Stuttgart, Academic Head of the ZMS
- Certified simulation game supervisor
- Research concerning also educational-didactic aspects of the simulation game method
- Conferral of Doctorate on the subject of “Occupational Decision-Making and Responsibility as Objective of Studies”
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