Serious Game-based and Agent-based Modeling Education for the Forest Value Chain
Abstract
The cooperation project GAME contributes to the core ambition of the EPICUR alliance through the development of transforming research, collaborative knowledge exchange, and educational and transfer practices to train students and stakeholders helping to overcome the dramatic challenges along forest value chains. Our research approach integrates agent-based simulation models to bridge ecology, forestry, and supply chain management research. We aim to avoid process breaks, which enables the closing of critical research gaps within interdisciplinary projects and joint publications to boost innovations beyond borders. Our educational and knowledge transfer approach is based on our shared set of European values, aiming to deepen and widen the European learning experience. We aim to organize workshops and an online international wood supply chain competition, which empower the digital transformation through our serious game-based learning approaches. Furthermore, we discover and discuss the different governance structures of our research institutions and collect mobility experience through the planned research and teaching stays within our project. We stimulate synergies in agent-based modeling as well as in teaching methods for university courses on forest logistics. This enables the development of a strong fundament for promising joint research projects such as the Future Forests Cluster of Excellence application at the German Research Foundation. Consequently, the EPICUR seed funding supports our ambitions to intensify the joint cooperation ambitions of the BOKU University, University of Freiburg, and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.
Project staff
Christoph Kogler
Dr.rer.soc.oec. Christoph Kogler BSc.MSc.
christoph.kogler@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-73421
Project Leader
01.06.2025 - 31.05.2026
BOKU partners
External partners
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Dr. Calum Brown
partner
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
Prof. Marc Hanewinkel
partner