Nexus Game

Applications

The Nexus Game offers a unique opportunity to explore the challenges of water management for energy and food production. Participants are put into the roles of key ministries of two countries sharing the same river. From this perspective, they may brainstorm and collaborate to creatively form and verify a number of policies. As they try to meet the growing water demands, they still have to remember about ecological and economical balance within and across the borders. The simulation is foremost targeted at water, energy, and agriculture sector professionals: ministries, power plants, capacity building institutions, etc. It is designed to be used within capacity development programs, both as a training tool and a policy exercise.

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The game met with an enthusiastic reception from players in many countries around the world, including:

Ivory Coast (African Development Bank),
Republic of South Africa (Southern African Systems Analysis Centre),
Egypt (Egyptian Academy of Scientific Research and Technology)
and Pakistan (Lahore University of Management Sciences).

Benefits

Learn

how to balance increasing water demand and solve water-supply conflicts between different sectors and countries

Experience

challenges connected with transitions in complex systems where multiple stakeholders’ interests collide

Discover

and exploit the potential of innovative technologies for increasing energy and water use efficiency

Practice

collaboration among various organizations and groups of interest whose individual and collective goals differ

News and Articles

July 17 2018

UNDERSTANDING THE NEXUS APPROACH

The nexus approach can guide a transition to sustainability, by reducing negative impacts within the system and producing gains that outweigh the costs connected with investing in better policy and “greener” technology.

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July 9 2018

ZAMBEZI SCENARIO WORKSHOP

Piotr Magnuszewski co-organized and co-conducted a workshop on nexus approach in the Zambezi Basin as part of the ISWEL project (Integrated Solutions for Water, Energy, and Land), led by the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), the Global Environment Facility (GEF), and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO).

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July 1 2018

NEXUS GAME SESSION AT AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK IN ABIDJAN

While playing as stakeholders from two bordering countries, players discovered that the game shares many similarities with the situations and problems they challenge in their day-to-day work.

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June 2 2018

3RD INDUS BASIN KNOWLEDGE FORUM

Piotr Magnuszewski participated in the Indus Basin Knowledge Forum (IBKF)! Piotr moderated one of the panels “Water, Energy, and Land Nexus in the Indus Basin: Exploring future and desirable futures”.

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Playing Nexus Game at Lahore University of Management Sciences!

Piotr Magnuszewski, together with his colleagues from the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, led the Nexus Game workshops with the local stakeholders and students of the Center for Water Informatics & Technology at Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS).

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NEXUS GAME IN EGYPT

Piotr Magnuszewski participated in the 5-day ‘Water Modelling Approaches to Egyptian Academics’ workshop organized by the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis and the Egyptian Academy of Scientific Research and Technology (ASRT).

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SASAC 2018 – NEXUS GAME IN SOUTH AFRICA

Integrated, independent, inspiring were the themes of this year Southern African Systems Analysis Centre’s Emerging Researchers Program (SASAC), which was launched 20 August 2017 in Johannesburg, South Africa.
NEXUS GAME SESSION AT DRESDEN NEXUS CONFERENCE

Around 20 people from all over the world participated in our Nexus Game-based workshop as part of the conference “SDGs & NEXUS APPROACH: Monitoring and Implementation.”

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Playing Nexus Game at Lahore University of Management Sciences!

Piotr Magnuszewski, together with his colleagues from the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, led the Nexus Game workshops with the local stakeholders and students of the Center for Water Informatics & Technology at Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS).

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NEXUS GAME IN EGYPT

Piotr Magnuszewski participated in the 5-day ‘Water Modelling Approaches to Egyptian Academics’ workshop organized by the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis and the Egyptian Academy of Scientific Research and Technology (ASRT).

Continue on external page →
SASAC 2018 – NEXUS GAME IN SOUTH AFRICA

Integrated, independent, inspiring were the themes of this year Southern African Systems Analysis Centre’s Emerging Researchers Program (SASAC), which was launched 20 August 2017 in Johannesburg, South Africa.
NEXUS GAME SESSION AT DRESDEN NEXUS CONFERENCE

Around 20 people from all over the world participated in our Nexus Game-based workshop as part of the conference “SDGs & NEXUS APPROACH: Monitoring and Implementation.”

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What participants say

“The simulation gave me more insight into the benefits of interacting with other people and getting their point of view. It also helped me understand the benefit of working in synergy. A problem can be solved from different perspectives - it is a complex system, but eventually, a consensus can be reached.”

August 2018

Southern African Systems Analysis Centre’s Emerging Researchers Program (SASAC)
“I have learned how managing resources is a complex process; without integration of sectors, it can have side effects on water quality, and impacts a large number of people.”

July 2018

3rd Indus Basin Knowledge Forum
“The game is very engaging and - via presenting different scenarios; dry and wet seasons, pollution, etc. - inspires to get interested in the real world’s problems. It also provides an opportunity to come up with solutions that may be further applied to problems outside the game.”

March 2018

Center for Water Informatics & Technology at Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS)
“The Nexus Game is a good visual way to see the nexus dynamics in practice, especially the trade-offs that one has to make at times.”

June 2017

African Development Bank
“Even though the link between water-food-energy is simple in this game, you can observe how these nexus elements interact. You can see how uncertainty of natural processes influences the result of your decisions. Group dynamics can vary a lot between two groups and between 2 games, and is an important (maybe the most important) part of arriving at a decision.”

May, 2017

Dresden Nexus Conference