48 running Projects // 288 Projects in total

• Rebound Effects by Switching to Renewable Energies? Analysis of consumers and prosumer households (EE-Rebound)

  

  Private households play an important role in achieving Germany’s climate protection targets. In addition to switching energy procurement to renewable energy sources (RE), it is also important for households to reduce their [...] More

• Electricity neighbours: social-ecological self-sufficiency through renewable energies and sector coupling? A project of the joint program ‘Knowledge. Transformation. Berlin.’ by the research partnership Ecornet Berlin

  

  Solar energy and tenants‘ electricity are a focus of Berlin's Energy and Climate Protection Program (BEK 2030), because the technology is central to climate protection and for social participation in the transformation [...] More

• Social and environmental heat transition in Berlin A project of the joint program ‘Knowledge. Transformation. Berlin’ by the research partnership Ecornet Berlin

  

  About half of Berlin’s carbon dioxide emissions stem from heating buildings. Reducing the demand for heat through energy-efficient building refurbishment and shifting to renewable energy and waste heat for heating are the two [...] More

• Alternative Economies in and for Berlin A project of the joint program ‘Knowledge. Transformation. Berlin’ by the research partnership Ecornet Berlin

  

  The project examines the transformative potential of concepts and concrete practical examples of alternative economies for a social and ecological development of Berlin. It develops suggestions how this potential can be [...] More

• Testing of a participation portfolio for optimizing participatory processes for the further development of the German Strategy of Adaptation to Climate Change (DAS)

  In 2015, the German Federal Government has developed further the German Strategy for Adaptation to Climate Change (DAS) by publishing the first progress report and the Action Plan for Adaptation (APA II). The documents lay [...] More

• Holistic Management of Energy and Resource Efficiency in Companies MERU

  We are nearing the planet’s ecological limits, in large part due to current consumption and production patterns of industrial countries. Although innovations have been able to considerably increase energy and resource [...] More

• Change in perspective Bioeconomy – for more sustainability A dialogue project in the science year 2020/2021

  

  With the bioeconomy topic, the German science year 2020/2021 is dedicated to the transformation from an oil-based to a bio-based economy. In times of a rapidly growing world population, dwindling biodiversity and irreversible [...] More

• Green city of the future – climate-resilient neighbourhoods in a growing city Subproject: Analysis of social and economic aspects of green infrastructures

  In vielen deutschen Städten wächst die Bevölkerung. Das führt zu einem erhöhten Flächenverbrauch in den Städten: Wohnungen und Gewerbebauten werden realisiert, zentrale Infrastrukturen etwa im Mobilitätsbereich eingerichtet. [...] More

• Suburban Heat Shift

  A third of the final energy consumption in Germany is used for heating and hot water. Thus, heat consumption is an important factor when it comes to tackling global challenges such as climate change, energy efficiency and [...] More

• Evaluation and advancement of CSR reporting

  The CSR Directive Implementation Act (CSR-RUG) of 2017 renders non-financial reporting mandatory for nearly 500 companies in Germany. The Act requires companies to publish information on environmental concerns, employees’ [...] More

• Holistic Biodiversity Management in Construction Materials Industry Strategies and Measures for Biodiversity Protection in Context of Resource Extraction

  The project aims to preserve and promote biodiversity in the mining sites of the building materials industry. Gravel, sand, clay and gypsum are major resources required for the production of building materials. According to [...] More

• Right Seeds? Commons-based rights on seeds and seed varieties as a driver for socio-ecological transformations in plant cultivation

  

  Seeds, which were traditionally a public good, are increasingly commercialized by strengthened property rights and growing market powers of transnational agribusiness. This trend is accompanied by increases in productivity, [...] More

• gARTENreich Preferences and constraints for biodiversity conservation in home gardens

  Home gardens have great potential to protect and promote biological diversity. Around 15 million private gardens take up almost 1.5% of the total and around 10% of the settlement and traffic areas in Germany. However, the [...] More

• Development of a service to support the adaptation to climate change (KlimAdapt) by extending the knowledge base, specification and implementation support

  

  The German Federal Government declared in its progress report on the German Strategy for Adaptation to Climate Change to establish an overall offer for the provision of climate and climate adaptation services. This initiative [...] More

• Prospective synergistic planning of development options in regiopols for the example of the agglomeration area of Rostock PROSPER-RO

  How large cities and their surrounding areas can develop together has increasingly become a key question for the future viability of regions. This applies especially to rather small cities (also known as ‘regiopoles’) located [...] More