40 running Projects // 357 Projects in total

• Social innovation and its diffusion: Social marketing and social entrepreneurship

  The research project aims at identifying success factors of new and target group specific marketing strategies for innovative social action. Those marketing strategies initiate both problem awareness as well as willingness to [...] More

• IÖW/future-Ranking of Sustainability Reports 2011

  The IÖW/future Ranking of Sustainability Reports regularly assesses the extra-financial reports of the 150 largest German companies on the one hand and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) on the other. The basis of the [...] More

• Revision of "Blue Angel" regulations in the field of heating rooms and buildings

  The German ecolabel “Blue Angel” (“Der Blaue Engel”) has been applied to environmentally friendly products since 1978. Space heating systems that have been awarded the Blue Angel are particularly efficient and low on [...] More

• Overall-effective measures for sustainable water resources management in the coastal area of Shandong Province, PR China

  Water shortage and water pollution are serious problems in China's Northern provinces which strongly influence not only socio-economic development, but also ecology and quality of life in these regions. Shandong Province and [...] More

• Converging Technologies – Socio-ecological options for shaping innovations (CONTEC)

  The growing connection between nanotechnologies, genetic engineering, information and communications technology and cognitive sciences is one of today’s most influential technological developments with far-reaching [...] More

• Renewable Energies in Brandenburg 2030 - Expansion Potential and Value-added Effects

  Brandenburg seeks to reduce its energy-related CO2 emissions by 40 percent in 2020 compared to the year 1990. Furthermore, CO2 reductions of another 35 percent are planned until 2030. To achieve these objectives, the [...] More

• Development of an internet-based calculator to determine the local value added of renewable energies

  The Institute for Ecological Economy Research (IÖW) carried out the study "Local Value Added through Renewable Energies" between April and September 2010. The project was conducted on behalf of the German Renewable Energy [...] More

• Evaluating Policies for Sustainable Development (EPOS)

  EPOS is a research project funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) in the framework of social-ecological research (SÖF). The main focus of the project is policy evaluation with a focus on [...] More

• Value Added by Renewable Energies in the German Federal State of Baden-Württemberg

  The Baden-Württemberg Ministry of the Environment, Climate Protection and the Energy Sector commissioned the IÖW to calculate the value added and employment effects of renewable energies in the federal state of [...] More

• Energy Efficiency and Employment

  Political targets aiming at mitigating climate change and increasing energy productivity will only be reached if companies significantly increase their energy efficiency. This can be based on efficient production processes or [...] More

• Policies to Encourage Sustainable Consumption

  The objective of the project is to provide policy guidance on how to change consumption patterns to make them more sustainable by using various approaches, including those based on behavioural research. To accomplish this, a [...] More

• Interlinking of climate scenarios with other scenarios from the ecological and social area

  The integration of climate scenarios with other models for social and environmental development is a precondition for a reliable estimate of the future development of coupled human-environment systems under conditions of [...] More

• Analysis of existing measures and development of innovative strategies to an improved application of synergies among environmental and social policy

  The project intends to analyse measures and strategies for an improved application of synergies among environmental and social policy and to develop innovative strategies for their application. Herewith, the preconditions for [...] More

• Evaluation of the NKI project "Eco-label of climate relevant products (climate angel)"

  Objective of the project is the evaluation of the elaboration of 10 additional product group requirements of the German eco-label "Blue Angle", which should strengthen the cluster "Protects the climate". In this context, [...] More

• Evaluation Utopia City Guide

  The task of the IÖW is the evaluation of a project of the Utopia AG called “Utopia City Guide”, where national yellow pages are developed, that are internet based and refer to green products and services only. The project is [...] More