High-tech systems are produced in a joint effort of some hundred teams of highly specialized engineers employed by the system integrator and dozens of suppliers. Because of the sheer size and complexity of the supply chain, it is impossible to oversee the entire operation. Instead, the process is somehow orchestrated by sharing information and coordinating the production planning between upstream teams that produce a subcomponent of the system and downstream teams that need it. Each team decides on its own operations according to this bilateral coordination and information sharing. From all bilateral coordination and decisions together thus emerges the responsiveness, resilience, and cost effectiveness of the overall supply chain. Three complementary work packages together aim to improve this global supply chain performance via concrete improvements to the local planning and coordination process: 1. Coordinated production planning in high-tech supply chains aims to improve the production planning and forecast sharing capabilities of individual actors. Planning models in WP1 are local. To ensure improvement of the global supply chain we complement it with 2. An agent-based model for high-tech supply chains, which develops an accurate and detailed descriptive model of the entire supply chain for understanding and explaining the connection between local decisions and global performance. 3. Emergent behavior and resilience in stochastic processing networks: Practitioners prefer easy-to-understand analytical rules for production planning and capacity allocation that perform well on supply chain level. Using probabilistic scaling techniques, this WP develops such rules based on an abstraction of the detailed supply chain models.

A Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on Design for Inclusive and Adaptive Delta Management, including integrated and sustainable port planning, will be co-produced and delivered through the international EdX platform. The envisaged participants are future and practicing engineers, ecologists and planners interested in deepening their knowledge on delta management. Here the concept of a delta extends beyond the bio-geophysical entity at the confluence of rivers and sea to represent a meeting space for new governance forms at the interface between decision makers, local stakeholders and transdisciplinary scientists. The theoretical components of the course (Units 1, 2, 3) will teach the conceptual foundations of stakeholder-inclusive, ecosystem-based, future-proof design and management. Participants will complete quizzes to check their understanding and undertake graded assignments. Unit 4, the case study component of the course, will offer a range of international material. Case material on planning for sustainable port development from Tema Port and the Volta Delta in Ghana will be included, as will case material from the Netherlands (e.g. Maasvlakte 2 expansion of the Port of Rotterdam, Port of Harlingen), together with illustrative examples from South Africa. The participants will undertake a final design assignment in which they apply the theoretical knowledge they have gained in the first three units to the case study material, developing their own design for inclusive and adaptive delta management. On completing the final design assignment participants will receive feedback on their design and a final grade. While consortium members will contribute theory and case study material, the consortium will draw on the expertise of the TPM Faculty of TU Delft for the design and delivery of the course. All participating universities and training organisations will receive the digital material for ongoing use in campus-based and bended education, so as to ensure sustained capacity development effects.

Fresh water availability for agriculture in the Dutch coastal area is limited and under pressure of climate-change. AGRICOAST aims to enhance the fresh water availability by means of various technological innovations and management solutions; make optimal use of both current and enhanced water resources for agricultural crop production; and support the societal transition towards climate-adaptive agriculture, based on evaluation of existing and newly designed interventions and governance. By means of design-based research, the uptake of the developed water management and crop production innovations is facilitated to pave the way to self-sufficient and climate(-change) robust agriculture in the Dutch coastal region.

GAMPSISS was an interdisciplinary project that researched whether it would be possible to train the listening skills of a concert audience by making use of serious games and gamification that are especially designed for that purpose. Listening being an essential social skill, a concert hall can be interpreted as a massive training environment to become a better listener, and eventually: a better citizen. Combining academic, science and artistic research we researched listening to music and listening to other people. We then researched which game would serve this goal best, and built a smartphone game and created a gamificated orchestra performance.

The programme is motivated by the observation that the adoption of innovative concepts and technologies in the Netherlands? energy system is much slower than required given the urgency of the foreseeable problems and the substantive system delays. The proposed research therefore aims at insights into, on the one hand, factors that contribute to inertia in Dutch energy transition and, on the other hand, innovative governance strategies for overcoming inertia and providing acceleration of the transition. To this end the programme will combine three complementary research approaches: energy systems modelling (project 1), a quasi-experimental design for facilitating multi-actor decision-making (project 2) and an experimental approach using gaming and simulation tools to explore how different constraints and institutional settings may affect actor behaviour (project 3). The programme will primarily focus on the built environment, and will consider variables at the macro, meso and micro-level, and their interactions. Project 1 will deliver interactive models for comparatively assessing the impact of governance strategies including policy instruments on choices and learning curves for specific technological applications in the Built Environment. Project 2 will deliver a procedure for informed decision-making and, as we expect, one or two specific pilots for the built environment. Project 3 will deliver specific insights into the impact of institutional constraints and dynamics for (multi-)actor decision-making.