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Since the first COVID-19 cases appeared, countries have developed different strategies, adapted services and a wide range of innovations came up, requiring flexibility. However, apart from all the innovations that are being developed and the new ways services are now being delivered, there is the need to prepare bottom-up initiatives that build-up the competences of adults in general, especially health and social care professionals, community leaders, informal caregivers and volunteers and public servants due to their privileged role as educational agents of the communities, so that these are prepared to deal with such emergency situations in the future. After the emergency state, a collaborative leadership approach is essential, and working together as a collective, investing in a participatory citizenship, has become key. STEP-UP developed a training tool for these target groups, where they are introduced to the actual impact of behaviours in the spread of a pandemic/emergency situation. There, they can learn what preventive measures exist, their impacts and the different levels of measures – individual, at work, in the family, at state level, among others. Although there is plenty of information available online, it is difficult to know which one is reliable. Also, there is the need to prepare the right training methods to approach the care sector as community educational agents, in an adequate and engaging way. The core of this tool is an educational game, but it can also be used as a recreational game for the common public. It intends to go on the contrary direction of existing games, (e.g. Plague inc., which objective is to create a plague that infects the whole world. In STEP-UP, instead of searching for chaos, the players intend to do the exact opposite - play with the aim to stop a pandemic from spreading. All information available in htpps://stepupgame.eu