E-PARCC
Annual Teaching Case and Simulation Competition
Collaborative Problem Solving, Collaborative Governance, and Network Governance and Analysis
Competition Prizes
- $5,000 for best teaching case
- $5,000 for best teaching simulation
- $1,000 honorable mentions
Collaboration is not simply a body of substantive knowledge–it also is a set of skills, attitudes and behaviors. This E-PARCC competition track aims to expand access to high-quality, relevant case studies and simulations focused on helping students and practitioners better understand and enact multiple aspects of collaboration to address public issues and problems.
Public and nonprofit managers, civic leaders and elected officials are rarely unitary supervisors of unitary organizations. Instead, they often find themselves collaborating in multi-organizational networked arrangements, as well as with the public, to solve problems that cannot be solved, or solved easily, by single organizations.
April 1
The annual competition is open now until April 1. This year's winners will be announced in September.
Please reach out to Tina Nabatchi, director of PARCC, with any questions (eparcc@syr.edu).
2024 Competition Winners
“International Collaboration in Transboundary Rivers: China-Kazakhstan: A Two-Stage Collaboration Simulation”
Darzhan Kazbekova and Jun Zhang, Syracuse University
First Place Winner of the Glendal E. and Alice D. Wright Prize Fund for Conflict and Collaboration Case Studies in International Development
“Sri Lankan Tea Plantation Workers Struggle for Fair Wages and Empowerment”
Anil Anirudhan and Sanjib Dutta, ICFAI Business School
Honorable Mention of the Glendal E. and Alice D. Wright Prize Fund for Conflict and Collaboration Case Studies in International Development
“Participatory Processes, Generative Artificial Intelligence, and Community Safety”
Jessie Harney, Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Administration, Colorado State University
Co-First Place Winner of the Collaborative Governance Teaching Case and Simulation Prize
“NGO Stakeholder Meeting at Nayon: A Cross-Sector Deliberation Amid Climate Change and Other Wicked Problems”
Jennifer Brass and Marylis Fantoni, O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University
Co-First Place Winners of the Collaborative Governance Teaching Case and Simulation Prize
“Global Europe? Deciding Canada’s Membership Application to the European Union”
Alexandru Balas (SUNY Cortland), Andreas Kotelis (University of Malta) and Noam Ebner
Honorable Mention of the Collaborative Governance Teaching Case and Simulation Prize