(July 2010 - December 2012)

Funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, the project aims to identify the most relevant manufacturing and consumption patterns of the future. Therefore technological and organizational concepts will be analyzed and assessed. Based on the past transformations in the context...

(August 2011 - December 2012)

About 950 million books are produced each year in Germany. Books, magazines and newspapers today are manufactured in industrial processes causing large quantities of emissions, effluents and waste. At the same time the industry has an important intermediary function for communication and spreading...

(October 2011 - September 2012)

While the relevance of nano-products for consumers grows, the level of knowledge among the general public of its applications and potential impacts is still relatively low. Yet the public rates the opportunities of this technology currently higher than the potential risks. These estimates, however,...

(June 2009 - May 2012)

(April 2010 - March 2012)