How to run a business
Setting up a business, promoting it and hiring people.
Program · Economy and entrepreneurship
FutureCity
How does money flow through a city? Students find out by running one. Through games and role play, children learn how a business works, why we need jobs, and what happens to the taxes we pay.
6classroom sessions
1 daygame play workshop as a team
Grades 6–7the age group it was built for
Building the city in a FutureCity workshop
About the program
The economy, in a classroom
FutureCity introduces children to how the economy works and how money flows through it. The curriculum is built on games and role play, so students learn by doing.
The program covers work life, money, the circular economy, the digital economy and entrepreneurship. In a live workshop, students learn how to set up a business. At the end, they run a simulated city, where each student is responsible for a different part: shopkeepers, government officials, entrepreneurs.
Through these activities, children learn to promote their own business, hire employees and pay taxes. They practise sales and marketing, and how to handle their own money.
FutureCity is offered on request. Contact us, and we set it up for your school.
Students learn
What FutureCity covers
Why we need jobs
What work means for people and for a city.
How we get a salary
Earning, spending and handling money well.
Why we pay taxes
And how the government uses tax money for everyone.
How it runs
From classroom to city
Six classroom sessions
Games and role play on work life, money, the circular economy, the digital economy and entrepreneurship.
A one-day workshop
Students work as a team in a live game play workshop and learn how to set up a business.
They run the city
Some are shopkeepers, some government officials, others entrepreneurs. Each runs a part of the city.
A taste of entrepreneurship
Sales, marketing and handling money, learned by doing.
FutureCity in action
Open for business
Playing the city game 
The restaurant is open 
Bank cards for the city 
Running the restaurant on a tablet
Made in Finland, adapted for India
A Finnish idea, tested by students
FutureCity is modelled on a program that has run successfully in Finland, and adapted for schools in India. In October 2019, students from a high school in Helsinki tested the game play and the FutureCity software with our founders.
Included, and how we look after students
What your school can count on
A clear structure
Classroom sessions first, then a one-day workshop where students run the city as a team.
6 classroom sessions and 1 game play workshop
Trained facilitators
Our facilitators run the sessions and guide every team through the game.
200+ facilitators trained, 2023–2025
Privacy and consent
Photos only with consent. Children's data is never used for marketing.
Consent on file for every program
Bring FutureCity to your school
FutureCity is offered on request. Tell us about your school and your students, and we will plan it with you.
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