51 running Projects // 338 Projects in total

• Analysis of Economic, Technical and Environmental Benefits of Energy Storage Systems in Grid-connected Photovoltaic Systems

  This project analysed the potential economic, technical and environmental benefits of energy storage systems in grid-connected photovoltaic systems in domestic households by investigating the following questions:   In [...] More

• Postwachstumspioniere – Kommunikationsprojekt zur Erweiterung des Postwachstumsdiskurses um die Rolle mittelständischer Unternehmen

  Wirtschaft ohne Wachstum – ist das überhaupt möglich? Wie kann eine Postwachstumsgesellschaft aussehen und wie kommen wir da hin? Diese Fragen werden derzeit in der deutschen Politik, Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft verstärkt [...] More

• NATURAL VALUE – Close-to-Nature Company Premises as an Introduction to Environmental Management which Promotes Biodiversity

  By analysing the real estate management of corporatios the project aims at showing concrete starting points for the corporate protection and conservation of biodiversity. Thereby the project concentrates on the potential of [...] More

• Qualification Structure and Requirements in Environmental Protection

  The object of this research project is to gather information about the qualification structure and future qualification requirements of employees working in the field of environmental protection. Professionals and [...] More

• Scientific Support on the Topic: Environmental and Conservation Policy as Social Policy – Concepts and Future Challenges

  Environment and nature conservation policy is also social policy. This statement might seem trivial but it is highly relevant when taking into account the increasing and ever more dramatic effects of failing environmental [...] More

• Regional Adaptation Strategies for the German Baltic Sea Coast (RADOST)

  The aim of the RADOST project is to develop regional adaptation strategies in a dialogue between research institutions, business, public administration and civil society. The IÖW is responsible for the socioeconomic analysis [...] More

• Optimization of a new membrane process for upgrading biogas for injection into the natural gas distribution grid

  The project aims to further develop and optimize a new membrane process for upgrading biogas to methane, whereby the focus is on its potential contribution to climate change mitigation. The company, Ingenieurbüro Buse GmbH, [...] More

• Stakeholder Dialogues: Adaptation to Climate Change

  The adaptation of society, the economy and the environment to the inevitable consequences of climate change gets increasingly important. For this process key stakeholders in economy and society need to be sensitised for the [...] More

• Internet-Based Value-Added Calculator 2.0

  The German Renewable Energies Agency (AEE) developed an internet-based calculation tool in cooperation with the IÖW and on behalf of the Agency for Renewable Resources (FNR) to determine the local value-added effects for the [...] More

• Climate change in Germany: Adaptive capacity and tranformation paths towards a resilient society

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• Concentrating Market Power. Bulk Consumer as Change Agent for Innovation Towards Sustainable Consumption

  The project builds on the experience gained with public procurement (GPP) but breaks new ground by aiming at non-public bulk consumers which, either individually or as a group, could provide supply-side stimuli for innovation [...] More

• Chameleon Adapting Utilities to Climate Change - Analysing and Developing Private and Public Action

  Climate change alters and endangers not only natural areas but also our social and technical infrastructure. Extreme weather phenomena such as storms and flooding can bring down power lines or make rail lines impassible. Heat [...] More

• Retrofit Plan for Federal Buildings: A Special Study to Quantify Rebound Effects After Thermal Retrofits of Non-Residential Buildings/Federal Properties

  The German federal government is aiming at reducing heating energy consumption in its properties by 20% by the year 2020, in conformity with commitments by the wider public service sector, and for this it has developed a [...] More

• Water Flows in Germany

  

  The website www.bmbf.wasserfluesse.de presents interactive graphics and films on Water Flows in Germany. The aim of the research project is to capture the water flows in Germany in an integrative analysis and in innovative [...] More

• Linking Research and Policy Making for Managing the Contradictions of Sustainable Consumption and Economic Growth (RESPONDER)

  The EU-funded project RESPONDER aims at disclosing and discussing the contradictions between sustainable consumption and economic growth. The project seeks to inform policy-making by exploring novel ways of knowledge [...] More