The markets for the future are green and have considerable growth potential. Green technologies have become one of Germany's key exports and the high specialised and innovative companies expect further rapid growth. At the same time, companies’ [...] More

In the project a Sustainability Atlas will be developed, in which a national and international comparative overview is given on selected governmental and business strategies of sustainable development. Thereby, the underlying (meta-) conceptions of [...] More

The Environmental Technologies Action Plan (ETAP) was presented by the EU Commission in 2004 with the aim of comprehensively exploiting the potential of environmental technologies to improve ecology and sustainability. In the context of the ETAP [...] More

NANOPLAT will develop a platform for deliberative processes on Nano-science and Nano-technology (NS&T) in the European consumer market. The support action will concentrate on deliberative processes concerning human and environmental safety, ethical [...] More

Within the framework of an innovation and technology analysis, the opportunities and risks of self-organising adaptive systems are examined with the focus on organic computing. One of the main driving factors behind such technical developments is the [...] More