What is the maritime spatial planning challenge?
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Human activities at sea such as off shore wind farming, shipping and fishing, easily get into each others way. And they have a long term impact on the marine environment. Maritime Spatial Planning (MSP) Challenge has been designed to help decision-makers, stakeholders and students understand and manage the maritime (blue) economy and marine environment.
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In the interactive simulation, country planners and stakeholders see the entire sea region and review many different data layers to make an assessment of the current status. They develop plans for future uses of sea space, over a period of several decades. The consequences of decisions for energy, shipping and the marine environment are simulated and visualized in indicators and heat maps.
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MSP Challenge integrates best available geo, maritime and marine data with simulation models for ecology, shipping and energy production. Using advanced game technology and game thinking, MSP Challenge is designed to engage and immerse users, making it a perfect environment for stakeholder engagement, planning through co-design, learning and education.
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our vision
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We see a need to innovate the way we talk, discuss, learn, make plans and take decisions about our seas and oceans. We have to look at the sea from a broader and longer term perspective. Learning to go beyond self- and short-term interests. We think that planning and decision-making about the maritime economy and marine ecosystems can become more intelligent, interactive and immersive.
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By making use of emerging digital technologies, such as games and virtual reality, we can connect geo, maritime and marine data, with eco modelling and maritime simulations. The MSP Challenge is a community-based, open source and not for profit initiative, since 2011. Thousands of people around the world have experienced the MSP Challenge simulation platform and board games. Find them on the community wiki.
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Use it for...
stakeholder engagement |
learning & Education |
planning & co-design |
research |
Ecology |
Shipping |
Energy |
Serious gaming |
The MSP Challenge is an open source, community-based, not for profit initiative since 2011. The simulation platform is powered by Breda University of Applied Sciences, the Netherlands. Funding and contributing partners are fully credited in the user community wiki.