Project logo SIM4NEXUS Duration: 2016 - 2020 Type of Action: Research and Innovation Action Nr of participants: 25 partners Total funding: €7,895,657.50

Background Improving resource efficiency requires exploitation of synergies and mitigation of trade-offs across water, energy, food, climate and land. Implementations needs the active participation among government, the private sector, academia and civil society A Serious Game is developed to learn from modelling tools, using impact assessment approaches and expert knowledge. On top of it, a user will benefit from the knowledge of practitioners who play the game. We develop the game through 12 cases across Europe. The case use transdisciplinary approaches to adequately address the Nexus, driven by stakeholder needs

Knowledge Elicitation Engine

Visualisation and interaction tool

Conclusions Potential to demonstrate a long-term (50 years) integrated approach to business planning and education tool for use with local educators, considering resilience, environmental protection and low-carbon development Challenges remain on playing games across scales: Policy coherence at European scale versus implementation at national and regional scales