31 running Projects // 364 Projects in total

• 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

• Dendrom - Future perspectives of wooden biomass (so called "dendromass")

  Currently a rapidly growing demand for biomass (largely due to energetic usage like electric power, heat and bio fuels but also material usage like wood materials and paper) is meeting a falling supply of adequate resources [...] More

• Current energy and climate policy framework conditions (international, EU, Germany)

  The short study constitutes a contribution to the development of an energy and climate protection strategy for Vodafone. In the context of a background paper for the company Vodafone AG, the IÖW described the energy and [...] More

• Relief Effects for the Environment through Nanotechnological Processes and Products

  The project “Relief Effects for the Environment through Nanotechnological Processes and Products”, conducted in cooperation with Bremen University, is aimed at the prospective identification and evaluation of the potential [...] More

• Future markets in forest-wood chain (ZUFO) Verbesserung der Innovations- und Wettbewerbsfähigkeit am Beispiel des Holzbaus in der Region Allgäu

  The project ZUFO pursues a modular and multi-dimensional analysis of an exemplary forest-timber-chain in the wood construction sector. Together with businesses and associations, it aims at pointing out practical development [...] 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

• Sustainability Report Ranking 2007

  The Sustainability Report Ranking evaluates the content and communicative quality of the sustainability and environmental reports of Germany’s 150 largest corporations. It is a joint evaluation project of the Institute for [...] More

• preagro - sub-project "Sustainability Communication along the Agro-Food Chain – Actors and Information Platforms" Preagro - Teilprojekt

  Precision farming is mostly dealt with from technical and on-farm perspectives. The integrated project pre agro complements the analysis by the perspective of the value added food chain: food processing industry, retailers [...] More

• Potentials and trends in bionics

  Bionics exercises great fascination for many different reasons. It promises 'adapted', ecologically compatible solutions for social problems. An important contribution towards implementing this promise consists in working out [...] More

• Stakeholderdialogues (Climate Protection, Child/Youth Protection) at Vodafone Germany

  Conception and Realization of two Stakeholder Dialogues (Climate Protection, Child/Youth Protection) with Recommandations for CR Strategy and CR Reporting at Vodafone D2 More

• Communicating the terms "risk" and "hazard" taking account of the opinions of NGOs and trade associations

  Risk communication aims at the interactive exchange of information and opinions concerning dangers and risks between various actors involved in the communication process. Yet misunderstandings and communication problems [...] More

• Logistics towards Sustainability (LOTOS)

  LOTOS developed sustainable solutions for logistics processes from goods procurement to the delivery of products. To this end sustainability criteria in the logistics processes of the company Tchibo GmbH were analysed, [...] More

• Global Governance and Climate Change Analysis of the Conditions, Risks and Chances of Social-Ecological Transformations

  This research project aims to explore the particular features of global-local governance that are nowadays so distinctive in the field of climate change. These features include the complex relationships between global, [...] More