On 1 April 2025, the department ‘Diversity and Critiques of Power in Educational Pathways‘ started the new three-year project ‘Serious Game for the Financial Literacy of Migrants - reflecting diversity, multilingualism and vocational orientation’ (FinDMB). The project is funded by the BMBF as part of the ‘Research on Financial Literacy’ funding programme (follow the link in the blue box) and is coordinated by Dr. Franziska Bonna. The aim of the project is to develop and to test an educational game (serious game).
The target group of this learning offer are adult migrants who have come to Germany as professionals, through family reunification, for educational reasons or as refugees and who are learning in German language courses. In addition, the project focusses on young adults in vocational preparation courses at vocational schools. The programme thus addresses learners who are learning German as educational and as vocational language and who are affected by intersectional disadvantage and (still have to) find their way around the German labour and financial market.
Research is being conducted into the question of how it is possible to design educational games that are diversity-sensitive and multilingual in such a way that they enable people who are learning German as an additional educational and vocational language for financial literacy and vocational orientation. The project is also investigating how social media elements and freely accessible artificial intelligence (AI) can be integrated in order to ensure that the game content remains up-to-date beyond the end of the project and to promote media skills at the same time. The development and evaluation of the serious game will be conducted in a participatory and practice-orientated way in cooperation with learners and teachers as well as with multipliers in German language courses and vocational preparation education. Cooperation partners are ‘Agentur für Arbeit Bremen-Bremerhaven‘ (Employment Agency), ‘Bremer Volkshochschule‘ (Bremen Adult Education Centre, Regional Office South, ‘Inge Katz School‘ (School for vocational education) and ‘Zentrum für Schule und Beruf‘ (Centre for Schools and Careers). The participatory approach is intended to develop the content closely in line with the needs of the target group and to ensure that the educational programme is anchored in educational practice right from the start of the project.
Prof Dr Alisha M.B. Heinemann, Dr Franziska Bonna and Julia Tietjen are very pleased about the start of the project and the collaboration.