A wealth of research has emphasised issues surrounding student well-being, including students’ unfavourable mental health status compared with non-studying young adults. These insights highlight that students do not only represent a population specifically vulnerable to the lasting pandemic, but also outside of the scope of a crisis. Up until now, interventions to enhance student well-being have mainly focused on teaching the individual how to be, among others, more resilient or mindful. Interventions focusing on the academic system aiming to improve student well-being, in contrast, remain scarce. Within the learning environment, the satisfaction of the basic psychological needs (BPN) of autonomy, competence, and relatedness, as stated within the Self-Determination Theory, has repeatedly been found to relate to student well-being and resilience. Consequently, the link between the BPN and student well-being or resilience, respectively, appears a promising research avenue. To this end, we implemented an interaction focusing on need satisfaction within higher education. The intervention consists of three parts: During the first lecture, students and teachers are asked to engage in a board game focused on psychoeducation about the relevance of the BPN in teaching. Afterwards, they will agree upon adjusting the course design to further foster need satisfaction. Midway through the course, a second session is schedule to monitor the progress of how these aspects have been implemented thus far or if the agreement needs further adjustments. During the very last lecture, the whole class including the teacher are asked for feedback on how the agreement has been established and how this affected students’ well-being.