31 running Projects // 364 Projects in total

• Literature Review: Biomimetics in Economics and Business

  The project aims to investigate the current state of the art of biomimetic applications in economic sciences. Therefore, relevant literature will be reviewed and summed up. Suggestions for prospective biomimetic activities [...] More

• Material Efficiency and Resource Conservation (MaRess)

  Environmental burdens due to the extraction and use of resources, the related emissions and the disposal of waste lead directly to ecological and subsequently also social and economic problems. Insecurity of supply, a [...] More

• Evaluation of heating surveys from a campaign of CO2online Target groups and buildings, consumer satisfaction and effect of the measure

  Based on a short questionaire and the last heat cost billing CO2online compiles heating surveys for landlords and lodgers. Due to the heat cost billing and the reply of the questionaire, the heating survey includes [...] More

• Investments of Germany's four big energy companies in the field of renewable energies - update 2010

  The big four German energy suppliers - E.ON, RWE, Vattenfall and EnBW - are also committed to developing renewable energies. This impression is at least supported by television commercials, billboards and other marketing [...] More

• Cohesion Policy and Sustainable Development

  The aim of the study is to: define sustainable development (and in particular the integration of economic, social and environmental objectives) in the context of Cohesion Policy, which will remain primarily an economic and [...] More

• Concept of a product-related toprunner model on EU level

  The eco-design of products gets increasing importance. Also on EU-level, it is to a large extent agreed that environmental regulation with dynamic standards is needed which gives strong incentives for resource-efficient [...] More

• Energy-efficient modernisation of the housing stock of detached and semi-detached houses (Enef house)

  Domestic space heating and hot water account for over a quarter of final energy requirements in Germany. An energy-efficiency refurbishment of buildings could reduce this energy consumption and the related CO2 emissions by up [...] More

• 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

• 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

• 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