40 running Projects // 357 Projects in total

• Social and environmental heat transition in Berlin A project of the joint program ‘Knowledge. Transformation. Berlin’ by the research partnership Ecornet Berlin

  

  About half of Berlin’s carbon dioxide emissions stem from heating buildings. Reducing the demand for heat through energy-efficient building refurbishment and shifting to renewable energy and waste heat for heating are the two [...] More

• Alternative Economies in and for Berlin A project of the joint program ‘Knowledge. Transformation. Berlin’ by the research partnership Ecornet Berlin

  

  The project examines the transformative potential of concepts and concrete practical examples of alternative economies for a social and ecological development of Berlin. It develops suggestions how this potential can be [...] More

• Green City of the Future – Climate-Resilient Neighborhoods in a Growing City Subproject: Analysis of social and economic aspects of green infrastructures

  

  Many German cities experience a significant population growth due to their attractive working and living environment. The consequence is a higher space consumption, triggered by increasing construction activities in the [...] More

• Change in perspective Bioeconomy – for more sustainability A dialogue project in the science year 2020/2021

  

  With the bioeconomy topic, the German science year 2020/2021 was dedicated to the transformation from an oil-based to a bio-based form of economy. In times of a rapidly growing world population, dwindling biodiversity and [...] More

• Suburban Heat Shift Innovation district heating in agglomeration belts using the example of of the existing quarter “Leeste”: Project phase 1

  A third of the final energy consumption in Germany is used for heating and hot water. Thus, heat consumption is an important factor when it comes to tackling global challenges such as climate change, energy efficiency and [...] More

• Evaluation and advancement of CSR reporting

  The CSR Directive Implementation Act (CSR-RUG) of 2017 renders non-financial reporting mandatory for nearly 500 companies in Germany. The Act requires companies to publish information on environmental concerns, employees’ [...] More

• gARTENreich Preferences and constraints for biodiversity conservation in home gardens, project phase 1

  

  Home gardens have great potential to protect and promote biological diversity. Around 17 million private gardens take up almost 2 % of the total and around 10 % of the settlement and traffic areas in Germany. However, the [...] More

• Holistic Biodiversity Management in Construction Materials Industry (GiBBS) Strategies and Measures for Biodiversity Protection in Context of Resource Extraction, project phase 1

  The project aims to preserve and promote biodiversity in the mining sites of the building materials industry. Gravel, sand, clay and gypsum are major resources required for the production of building materials. According to [...] More

• Development of a service to support the adaptation to climate change (KlimAdapt) by extending the knowledge base, specification and implementation support

  

  The German Federal Government declared in its progress report on the German Strategy for Adaptation to Climate Change to establish an overall offer for the provision of climate and climate adaptation services. This initiative [...] More

• Corona and Sustainability In search of a new balance between market, state and civil society for a resilient society

  The global corona pandemic hit most countries unprepared and has had a massive impact on the health of the world's population to this day. At the same time, the measures required to combat the disease have led to considerable [...] More

• Prospective synergistic planning of development options in regiopols for the example of the agglomeration area of Rostock PROSPER-RO

  How large cities and their surrounding areas can develop together has increasingly become a key question for the future viability of regions. This applies especially to rather small cities (also known as ‘regiopoles’) located [...] More

• Climate Protection Potential of Digitalization Potentials of digitalization for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in the energy sector

  Digitalization is a future trend of our society – also in the energy sector. Driven by political goals and processes, legal foundations and market players, a lot of digital innovations from electricity meters, to controlling [...] More

• Advisory opinion on the definition of social economy enterprises (Sökon)

  In Berlin and throughout Germany, a growing number of enterprises associate themselves with the “social economy”. What they have in common is that they aim to use their economic activities to help solve social and/or [...] More

• Entwicklung einer Wärmestrategie für das Land Berlin

  Berlin hat sich mit dem Berliner Energiewendegesetz das Ziel gesetzt, bis spätestens zum Jahr 2050 die CO2-Emissionen auf ein klimaneutrales Niveau zu senken. Zudem hat sich der Senat mit der Anerkennung einer Klimanotlage in [...] More

• ReCap – Capping Macro Rebounds Reconsidering the Role of Energy and Resource Productivity for Economic Growth, and Developing Policy Options for Capping Macro-Level Rebound Effects

  

  For more than 30 years, economic science has dealt with the emergence of rebound effects in the context of resource efficiency improvements both theoretically and empirically. Based on this research and diverse growth [...] More