SERIOUS GAMES PROSTA SPÓŁKA AKCYJNA

Serious Games PSA is a start-up established to carry out interdisciplinary projects. The company works by forming interdisciplinary task teams composed of experts, scientists and specialists from a wide range of fields, who jointly develop products based on intellectual property. Serious Games also applies a spin-off approach, enabling the solutions developed within its projects to be commercialised effectively and brought to market.

Under formal agreements, Serious Games has taken over the experience, know-how and network of contacts in the scientific and business communities (goodwill) of two companies previously managed by its current shareholder and President of the Management Board, Dr K. Nowak: Profile sp. z o.o. and Demeter sp. z o.o. The company has also acquired from them the rights to the intellectual and industrial property developed by both entities. As a result, Serious Games builds on a proven track record in managing large, publicly funded R&D projects as well as complex communication and social research projects for public institutions, international organisations and business.

Research and development experience

•       Demeter sp. z o.o. – “Innovative technology for the economically and ecologically efficient management of sewage sludge using filamentous fungi, through sludge drying, with added value in the form of processing sludge into solid biofuel”. Duration: 2017–2022. Budget: PLN 14,010,990. Funding: National Centre for Research and Development (NCBR) grant, POIR.01.01.01-00-0071/17.

•       Profile sp. z o.o. – “Development of an innovative catalytic-adsorption technology for the neutralisation of methane emitted to the atmosphere in ventilation air from hard coal mines, based on a platinum catalyst, with added value in the form of waste energy recovery”. Duration: 2018–2023. Budget: PLN 8,815,962.50. Funding: NCBR grant, POIR.01.01.01-00-0367/18-00.

Strategic communication and social research experience

Beyond technology development, Profile sp. z o.o. was for many years one of the leading consulting and research firms in Poland in the field of strategic communication and social research. Selected projects include:

•       European Commission (2009–2022) – management of the Information Point for the Representation of the European Commission in Poland.

•       City of Łódź (2017) – international campaign promoting Łódź’s bid to host International EXPO 2022, carried out in Poland and abroad, mainly in France and Kazakhstan, in Polish, English, French and Russian.

•       Agency for the Modernisation of Ukraine (2016) – sociological study and development of a public awareness campaign strategy on every-day corruption patterns in Ukraine.

•       Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Poland (2014) – “Polska Spring into” image-building campaign promoting Poland abroad (UK, Germany, Sweden, Belgium).

•       Industrial Development Agency (2008–2014) – media and corporate/political communication consulting for the Agency’s activities, including socially and politically sensitive projects such as industrial restructuring, employment downsizing and the liquidation of shipyards.

•       PGE EJ (2013–2014) – management of public relations related to the preparation for construction of Poland’s first nuclear power plant.

•       Educational Research Institute (IBE) (2011–2013) – coordination of two PR campaigns promoting the Polish Qualifications Framework and disseminating the results of the IBE project “Research on the quality and effectiveness of education and institutionalisation of the research backup”.

•       Polish Agency for Enterprise Development (2011–2012) – management of a campaign promoting pro-innovation attitudes.

•       City of Poznań (2010) – coordination of the team preparing Poznań’s bid for the title of European Capital of Culture 2016.

•       Polskapresse, Media Regionalne, Orange Foundation (2006–2012) – coordination of the national “School without Violence” campaign under the patronage of the President of the Republic of Poland, with over 5,000 participating schools, teacher training, grants for schools, regular surveys monitoring violence in schools, and the transfer of the campaign’s experience to Ukraine (2009).

Combining scientific expertise, technological know-how and extensive experience in communication and stakeholder engagement, Serious Games PSA is well positioned to lead complex, interdisciplinary projects from research through to market implementation.