35 running Projects // 361 Projects in total

• 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

• Change dynamics in consumption and sustainable innovation paths (DYNAMIKON)

  Taking the example of leisure-time mobility, the research project DYNAMIKON examines what short- and medium-term factors are responsible for changes in consumer behaviour. Consideration is given not only to economic factors, [...] More

• Coordination Action for innovation in Life-Cycle Analysis for Sustainability (CALCAS) Koordiniertes Projekt

  ife Cycle Assessment (LCA) according to ISO has been the driving power for LCA diffusion, but it has limitations regarding empirical mechanisms, spatial/temporal aspects and economic/social parameters. To increase the [...] More

• EXPEED - Export potential from services for renewable energies service categories, lead market potentials and the development of internationalisation strategies

  Renewable energy sources are a national and international growth market. In particular, countries with so-called lead markets which are quick to develop successful export strategies can hope to achieve long-term employment [...] More

• Opportunities for small and medium-sized service providers in the environmental sector in China

  This project examines the opportunities and risks of exporting environment-related services in the waste water sector to China. In a multi-stage empirical process, which is based on interviews with institutions concerned with [...] More

• Conference „Land Use and Climate Change Mitigation Policies“

  The conference „land use and climate change mitigation policies“ discussed the mitigation potentials of agriculture, biomass for energy generation and peatland renaturation for carbon storage and the trade-offs and synergies [...] More

• Increasing the acceptance and use of mineral secondary raw materials, taking account of the protected interests and application-related requirements of potential macro-economic benefits as well as sectoral economic incentives.

  Well over half the waste generated in Germany is mineral waste. It represents a major potential for resource conservation. Huge quantities of natural, mineral raw materials, such as natural stone, sand, gravel and the [...] More

• Enabling Developing Countries to seize eco-label opportunities

  In 2007, UNEP started a project started which promotes eco-labelling in Brazil, China, India, Kenya and the South East African Region, Mexico and South Africa. The project is funded by the European Commission and the German [...] More

• Futures and Visions: Forest 2100

  Systematic preparation for the world of tomorrow would appear the most logical course of action. Consequently, the project “Forest Futures 2100” wants to illuminate the horizon of expectable, possible and desirable future [...] More

• The Sustainability of DG SANCO policies – New Consumption and Production Patterns

  The main objective of this project was to conduct a process of policy reflection through a professionally facilitated series of three workshops, including a fundamental pre- and after-workshop phase. In doing so the proposed [...] More

• Climate Impacts of Agriculture

  The agriculture in Germany accounts for a significant degree of greenhouse gas emissions. In climate protection strategies (i.e. the energy and climate programme of the federal government), the contribution of the agriculture [...] More

• Assessing the potential of various instruments for sustainable consumption practices and greening of the market (ASCEE)

  Sustainable consumption is a much-discussed topic. To ensure that things move beyond the level of discussion and knowledge of sustainable action also penetrates to the consumers, functional instruments for integrating [...] More