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Beer Game (also known as Production Distribution Game) has been developed in the sixties of the last century. System Dynamics Group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), chaired by Jay W. Forrester, prepared the game for the students in order to familiarize them with the issues of system complexity and System Dynamics. The Beer Game draws on the experience gained by Jay W. Forrester through a project for GE and described in his book "Industrial Dynamics" (the first title introducing the issues of System Dynamics modeling and simulation). Over the years, the Beer Game has been successfully used in order to demonstrate the problems that organizations often have to cope with in everyday activities. Currently, all students beginning study at MIT take part in the Beer Game.

"Climate Game" is the title of the project which won support and funding from the Education for Democracy Foundation in August 2008, in the contest entitled "Development Education" in the foreign aid program of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The result of this project is an educational (Internet) game on the subject of climate change. It is addressed to anyone interested in this subject, regardless of the level of knowledge and their opinion about the validity of the scientists' hypotheses. "Climate Game" makes it possible to move to the virtual world and check what may be the consequences of our actions.

“Fish Business” is a game designed to show the problems related to the exploitation of natural resources in the realm of competition.

The game enables the players to search for the ways to avoid the trap of the excessive exploitation of resources, often called “the tragedy of the commons”. The players represent the boards of fishing companies and by way of making decisions aimed at their firms' development, they have a significant impact on the environment.

In the game “Floodplain Management” the players take on the roles of farmers or managers (of public administration) who operate on the area of a river basin. In this way the players, while making decisions, experience their influence on natural environment and shape the future of their home river basin.

The project "Simulation Game - Maintaining the Melioration Structure” was carried out in collaboration with the project CAVES (Complexity: Agents, Volatility, Evidence and Scale) as part of the 6th Framework Program of the European Union. The Centre for Systems Solutions offered an active cooperation in the form of creating the simulation game. The game is aimed at the discovery of the decision rules of the farmers in maintaining the drainage infrastructure. The study combines the elements of several measurement techniques: experimental measurement, a decision-making game based on computer simulation, observation and interview.