GuardIAS

GuardIAS is a three-year Horizon Europe project that unites diverse expertise to address aquatic invasive alien species (IAS) management. This multidisciplinary initiative comprises seven interconnected work packages targeting all invasion stages (pre-border, border, post-border) to develop tools for assessing and managing invasions. GuardIAS activities at IGB will focus on the construction and analysis of social-ecological networks for selected aquatic IAS as well as on transferring the generated knowledge to practitioners and the broader society. The networks will thereby serve as basis for the development of applied games (also known as serious games) focusing on the management of aquatic IAS. We will develop two types of games for two purposes: (1) games to be used in stakeholder workshops to co-design management strategies and (2) games to be played by the general public, thus raising awareness about the impacts and management options of aquatic IAS.