40 running Projects // 357 Projects in total

• Employment and training and qualification requirements for innovation environmental technologies

  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 [...] More

• Meta-Analysis – Strategies of Sustainability in Politics and Economics

  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 [...] More

• Local value added by renewable energy technologies

  Communities are important drivers in the development of renewable energies. They can benefit at the same time because, as a rule, previously imported energy feedstocks or final energy will be replaced by local energy sources, [...] More

• Social Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility in German TNCs

  The project starts from the hypothesis that trade union and CSR actors currently operate in strongly demarcated and differently constituted policy arenas and that the mutual rapprochement of the two arenas can both support [...] More

• ICZM Oder – Research for an Integrated Coastal Zone Management in the Oder Estuary Region

  The Oder Estuary is a rural region at the German-Polish border. It has great ecological and recreational potential. The region suffers from economic and social problems and a steep gradient between West and East and between [...] More

• Climate mitigation via peat land management Assessment of the effects of alternative peatland management on climate mitigation potentials, on farm-level economics and on macro economics.

  The purpose of the network-project is to identify synergies between peatland protection and climate protection, to quantify the contribution of alternative peatland management to climate protection, and to determine the [...] More

• Implementing the EU Action Plan ETAP

  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 [...] More

• Combating climate change and moorland management strategies

  In the debate about alternative strategies for combating climate change and the emission of climate-relevant gases, agricultural land use plays a significant role both as an emitter and with regard to potential avoidance [...] More

• Potentials of renewable energy sources in Berlin 2020 and in the long term - Quantification and generation of measures to reach ambitious expansion targets

  The city of Berlin is developing an integrated energy concept for 2020. In cooperation with the Berlin Energy Agency the IOEW will identify realizable technical potentials for renewable energy sources up until 2020 and [...] More

• IÖW/future-Ranking der Nachhaltigkeitsberichte deutscher Großunternehmen 2009

  Das IÖW/future-Ranking der Nachhaltigkeitsberichte bewertet die gesellschaftsbezogene Berichterstattung der 150 größten deutschen Unternehmen. Die Basis der Bewertung bildet ein umfassendes Kriterienset, das seit 1994 ständig [...] More

• Socio-ecological evaluation in politics

  The importance of evaluation in political decision-making and planning processes is growing. This results on the one hand from the increasing pressure to justify political measures and programmes, the legitimacy and [...] More

• Development of a Platform for Deliberative Processes on Nanotechnology in the European Consumer Market (NANOPLAT)

  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 [...] More

• Implementation of the Tunisian eco-label

  In the context of this project, a workshop has been organised which adressed the organiser of the Tunisian eco-label scheme. The main target was to transfer knowledge and experiences from different eco-label schemes to the [...] More

• Self-organising adaptive systems: an analysis of the opportunities and risks of new ICT approaches and ways to shape them

  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 [...] More

• Limits and possibilities of consumer information through product labelling

  Products can/could tell us a lot – for example about the environment- or health-related effects of certain product features in production, use or disposal. Various instruments have been developed which provide information [...] More