Harvert Serious Game
Harvert is a serious game that allows you to experience how the Environment and Planning Act works in practice in an interactive way. During the game, you'll gain insight into the changing roles, integrated decision-making, participation, and the cultural change that the Environment and Planning Act demands from organizations. An educational and accessible way to understand the impact of the Environment and Planning Act on your work.
This training is offered exclusively in-company.
What you are going to do
The Environmental Act is in effect and that brings new challenges. Promoters, governments, and other stakeholders will have to deal with different roles, new forms of participation, and an integrated way of decision-making. But how does that work in practice?
In the serious game Harvert, you step into a realistic case. Initiator Abels wants to expand a business park, while the municipality is working on an Environmental Plan in which they want to link the development to housing construction. Therefore, the initiator, together with the municipality, is organizing a round-table discussion with stakeholders.
What does the Environmental Act mean for you as a municipality, province, water board, grid operator, environmental agency, entrepreneur, citizen? In the serious game Harvert, each participant plays a specific stakeholder. Together, you will face the challenge of reaching a supported Environmental Plan and decide whether or not to approve entrepreneur Abels' initiative (invitation-based planning). The trainers will provide a comprehensive debriefing on the participants' chosen approach and on the interim and final results.
The serious game Harvert can be played both physically and digitally, making it suitable for online training.
For whom it is
This training is intended for professionals who deal with the Environmental Act and are involved in decision-making in the physical living environment. This includes employees and officials from municipalities, provinces, water boards, network operators, environmental services, as well as entrepreneurs and other stakeholders.
Following a Basic SSE Training is not required for this training.
What this training will give you
Upon completion of this training:
- You have insight into what the Environment and Planning Act means for yourself, for directors and employees, and for your stakeholders;
- You understand the effect of the Environmental Act on decision-making processes, particularly if the initiative for the participation process no longer lies with the competent authority;
- You know which elements in an Environmental Plan are important as a framework for assessing developments in the physical living environment;
- You know what's changing in the approach to initiatives such as business park expansion and housing development, sustainable energy generation with wind and/or solar, or additional nature development;
- You receive guidance to work with parties to reach an integrally balanced decision on what should be developed in an area.
Why train at the SSE Academy of WesselinkVanZijst
At WesselinkVanZijst, we work on the complex societal challenges of the present day. Our trainers are therefore strongly embedded in the daily practice of SSE: they are involved in societal changes with high stakes, acting as strategic stakeholder engagement professionals, process facilitators, or negotiation experts. For the past fifteen years, our consultants have, in addition to guiding organizations and professionals through complex societal issues, trained 5,000 colleagues and are currently delivering around 100 training sessions annually in the Netherlands and abroad. For all our training courses, we utilize the didactic philosophy of the SSE Academy.
As developers of the SSE method, we are also actively involved in the further development of the field on a daily basis through publications and podcasts, among other things. In this, we work closely with our knowledge partners, including the Global Network of the Consensus Building Institute (CBI) and the Dutch Mutual Gains Network. In the Netherlands, we provide modules within training programs for the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and the AOG School of Management.
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