GaLA year 2 review European Commission Information Society and Media GaLA Game and Learning Alliance The European Network of Excellence on Serious Games WP10 – Management ELIOS Lab – DITEN – University of Genoa 1

GaLA year 2 review European Commission Information Society and Media Consortium management Control activities performed according to the contract and the Quality Plan Coordination, preparation and collection of the yearly reports (per partner and per WP) Preparation of the Activity and Management Report deliverables Coordination of all the financial reports for the EC to ensure correctness, timeliness and completeness Distribution to all the partners of the payment received from the European Commission No legal status changes, no legal issues Consortium Agreement signature conclusion Management issues –Coordination streamlining –Self-assessment –Deliverable timeliness –Over expenditure 2

GaLA year 2 review European Commission Information Society and Media T10.4 Outreach Advisory Board (Unott) OAB Constituted Apr/May 2012 OAB Members –David Wortley, De Montfort University –Lucia Pannese, Imaginary (SME) –Pascale Xelot, IBM –Donald Brinkman, Microsoft –Sergio Levis & Ruggero Cesaria, FIAT Sepin OAB Physical Meeting VS-Games October 2012 –All OAB members attended –However, FIAT missed the formal meeting due to misunderstanding –Exchange of members’ views of SGs –Discussion of trends –Gamification 3

GaLA year 2 review European Commission Information Society and Media GaLA Game and Learning Alliance The European Network of Excellence on Serious Games WP10 - PERFORMANCE EVALUATION METRICS Alessandra Barbieri CMRE 4

GaLA year 2 review European Commission Information Society and Media PERFORMANCE INDICATORS GENERAL OBSERVABLES on Network Performance INDIVIDUAL WP METRICS 5

GaLA year 2 review European Commission Information Society and Media NETWORK METRICS QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENT OF results obtained impact of the NoE activities 6 OBSERVABLES based on Intellectual Capital Indicators (6 categories) COLLABORATION & INTEGRATION LONG-TERM PROJECT SUSTAINABILITY LONG-TERM PROJECT SUSTAINABILITY 1.Human capital development 2.Structural Capital 3.Education and Knowledge Dissemination 4.R&D Integration 5.Relational Capital 6.Core results 1.Human capital development 2.Structural Capital 3.Education and Knowledge Dissemination 4.R&D Integration 5.Relational Capital 6.Core results

GaLA year 2 review European Commission Information Society and Media PRELIMINARY ACTIVITY Harmonization / deconflicting Avoid redundancies – Other channels – Individual WP metrics 7

GaLA year 2 review European Commission Information Society and Media HUMAN CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT Researchers (human capital) involved in GaLA General data Focus on actual involvement of potentially under-represented categories Assessment of how well the GaLA objective of reinforcing relations among partners and promoting collaboration, mutual fertilization of ideas and sharing of activities is achieved Impact of such actions on HC development and growth  HC profiling and data related to staff exchange, staff transfer and co-supervision of MS / PhD students in the thematic field of GaLA 8

GaLA year 2 review European Commission Information Society and Media STRUCTURAL CAPITAL Provide information on the value of the network structure, in quantitative / qualitative terms. Research infrastructure available at partner and network level and its future expected size and quality based on declared and planned investments Perceived quality of the joint infrastructure (overall / quality and quantity of contents)  input for individual metrics for WP08 Perceived value of the individual products (such as the Society on Serious Games, joint publications, Conference on Serious Games etc) New proposals presented / won in the thematic field of GALA Sources of funding for joint programmes in the field (on top of FP7) 9

GaLA year 2 review European Commission Information Society and Media EDUCATION AND KNOWLEDGE DISSEMINATION New PhD / MsC in the thematic field of GaLA (specific focus on cross-involvement of GaLA partners) Involvement of teachers/students in research projects in the thematic field of GaLA (limited collection) Involvement of users in research projects 10

GaLA year 2 review European Commission Information Society and Media R&D INTEGRATION Assess the degree of integration and harmonization of R&D in own subfield and more generally in the Serious Games field GaLA primary focus on de-fragmentation of research, integration aspects and effective coordination and cooperation among partners. Vertical and Horizontal coordination (awareness of results achieved by other partners, availability of input for own research, perception of redundancies, feedback from/to WPL... Further activities stemmed from GaLA (Serious Games development / new projects) 11

GaLA year 2 review European Commission Information Society and Media RELATIONAL CAPITAL Internal / external relations inter-connections between GaLA project/researchers with entities operating in other fields of activity or coming from different context participation of partners in scientific/political fora (potentials for penetration of GALA themes / events / results) use of shared infrastructure (communication platform / online collaboration tools) / (Y)A social network / LL 12

GaLA year 2 review European Commission Information Society and Media CORE RESULTS Significant reduction following preliminary harmonization effort Questionable suitability of such indicators for expressing core results of the NoE Individual WP metrics found more suitable 13

GaLA year 2 review European Commission Information Society and Media INDIVIDUAL WP METRICS Template provided Each WPL to – determine individual metrics & targets – Collect results Harmonization & discussion 14

GaLA year 2 review European Commission Information Society and Media STATUS  INDIVIDUAL WP METRICS Baseline results collected & targets sets for Y3 / Y4 Reported in individual deliverables  NETWORK METRICS Indicators discussed & agreed at EMB level Questionnaire currently online for completion (Y2) Results to be reported at next EMB / General Assembly 15

GaLA year 2 review European Commission Information Society and Media Project meetings 16 PlaceDateMajor topics London 27 th -29 th February 2012 Gala plenary meeting: Progress Updates and Roadmap for each WP; Workshops; GALA Community Building; GALA strategy and objectives; EMB meeting and general assembly. Paris07 th June 2012EMB meeting Lisbon25 th - 29 th June nd GaLA Alignment School: - Collaborative design of game concepts; - WP collaboration meetings; - EMB and general assembly GaLA plenary session and EMB meeting in VS-Games 2012, October, Genoa, will be reported in Y3 Reduced the number of general meetings More focused (workshops, conference, Alignment school) Frequent thematic virtual meetings

GaLA year 2 review European Commission Information Society and Media Cumulative MM distribution across WPs 17 Actual MMs Planned MMs Diff. WP1 19,013,540% WP2 79,934,5132% WP3 56,23560% WP4 41,6404% WP5 35,639,5-10% WP6 31,327,514% WP7 46,032,541% WP8 23,530,5-23% WP9 35,417108% WP10 12,8126% TOTAL 381,228235%

GaLA year 2 review European Commission Information Society and Media Cumulative MM distribution across partners 18 PartnerActualPlannedDiff. UNIGE 29,526,013% UPS 23,07,5207% MAN 10,810,52% SGI 17,09,089% UWS 15,48,093% ATOS 18,521,5-14% UNI GRAZ 20,59,0128% UCM 20,515,037% COVUNI 12,612,50% PLAYGEN 24,914,078% HWU 12,46,0107% INESC ID 10,613,0-18% TUD 10,07,533% ORT 10,17,044% CNR 15,211,039% PartnerActualPlannedDiff. UU10,58,524% TUT4,05,5-27% UNOTT33,310,0233% BIBA16,212,035% NTNU1,63,5-54% OUNL8,37,019% AAU4,55,0-10% AALTO2,14,5-54% CYNTELIX12,612,05% POLIMI5,25,04% ETHZ3,63,51% ESADE6,93,0129% TUG7,95,544% CEDEP7,77,53% NURC7,76,029% RWTH5,14,027%

GaLA year 2 review European Commission Information Society and Media Cumulative direct costs (K€) across partners 19 PartnerActualPlannedDiff. UNIGE % UPS % MAN % SGI % UWS % ATOS % UNI GRAZ % UCM 85807% COVUNI 103 0% PLAYGEN % HWU % INESC ID % TUD % ORT % CNR % PartnerActualPlannedDiff. UU % TUT % UNOTT % BIBA % NTNU % OUNL % AAU % AALTO % CYNTELIX % POLIMI % ETHZ % ESADE % TUG 49476% CEDEP % NURC % RWTH 34334% %

GaLA year 2 review European Commission Information Society and Media MMs distribution for each WP 20 WP10 Planned PMs per year Year 1 actual PMs Year 2 actual PMs UNIGE3.00 NURC COVUN I UNOTT UU BIBA TOTAL

GaLA year 2 review European Commission Information Society and Media MMs distribution for each partner 21 UNIGE Planned PMs per year Year 1 actual PMs Year 2 actual PMs WP WP WP WP WP WP WP WP TOTAL