40 running Projects // 357 Projects in total

• Value-Added and Employment Effects by the Expansion of Renewable Energies

  In the last few years, the IÖW has published a series of studies on the quantification of value added and employment by renewable energies. On behalf of Greenpeace Deutschland, the IÖW has updated value added and employment [...] More

• FAIR FUELS? A socio-ecological multi-level Analysis of the Possibilities of and Limits to the international Use of Biofuels Thematic Research Group

  The project “FAIR FUELS?” addresses the question of the extent to which biofuels can be produced and used in a socio-ecologically compatible manner. Since biofuels are produced regionally but the products and raw materials [...] More

• The Potential of Advanced Technological, Decentralised and Personalised Production against the Background of a Low Carbon Economy

  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 [...] More

• Improving strategic environmental policy consultancy in the context of the general principle of sustainable development - study and professional dialogue about approaches and utilization perspectives of environmental and sustainability research.

  In the field of sustainability research it can be observed that the successful transfer of generated knowledge into the various fields of social and political activity remains limited. Causes are, among others, that the [...] More

• Utilization of the current debates on social welfare for the environmental justice and conclusions for the political and societal transformation. Concepts of social welfare and environmental justice

  Subject of the project are the proposals on the transformation of society in the perspective of sustainable, future-oriented development that are currently discussed in wide areas of the interested public as well as in [...] More

• BaltClim - Supporting national adaptation strategies to climate change in the Baltic States

  Although climate change in the Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania is already regarded as an important national issue, addressing the adaptation requirements for climate change such as sea levels rising, changes in [...] More

• CORPUS Enhancing the Connectivity Between Research and Policy-making in Sustainable Consumption

  "CORPUS - Enhancing the Connectivity Between Research and Policymaking in Sustainable Consumption” aims to develop novel approaches to knowledge brokering (KB) between policy-making and research. It will foster evidence-based [...] More

• Sustainable Publishing - New environmental standards for the publishing industry

  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 [...] More

• Energy Partnerships Berlin-Brandenburg

  The usage of renewable energies (biofuels, biogas, green electricity and hydrogen deriving from it) can be considered to be one of different approaches towards a more sustainable mobility. As especially Brandenburg offers [...] More

• Adaptive support device/textile with pressure controlled stiffness and integrated sensor technologies inspired by the human skin

  The research project is funded by the Ministry of Research within the program Biona, which aims to support the development in biomimetic approaches. The project aims to develop an adaptive decubitus mattress for persons whose [...] More

• Green public procurement: Follow up of the SCP/SIP action plan and GPP communication of the European Commission

  Objective of the project is the ongoing support of the market dissemination of environmentally more benign products and services by public procurement (GPP). Additionally, it is intended that the measures announced in the [...] More

• Impacts of the Expansion Plans for Renewable Energies until 2020 on Value Added and Employment

  Prior to the energy summit of the German federal government and the states on November 2nd, 2012, the German government proposed to limit support for wind energy and bioenergy generation similar to the cap imposed on the [...] More

• Research Activities and Core Competences Regarding Renewable Energy from Biomass and Wind Power in Berlin-Brandenburg

  In 2011, the Brandenburg Economic Development Board (ZAB) organized a conference with regional stakeholders from the energy sector to discuss and prioritize measures to support the further development in this sector. One of [...] More

• International analysis of the factors influencing the perception of nanotechnology

  While the relevance of nano-products for consumers is increasing, the level of knowledge among the general public concerning its application and potential impact remains relatively low. Yet, the public values the [...] More

• Investigation and support of two model communities for the assessment of municipal value added

  The Ministry for Climate Protection, Environment, Agriculture, Nature Conservation and Consumer Protection commissioned the IÖW to calculate the value added of renewable energies of two local authorities in the German State [...] More