36 running Projects // 387 Projects in total

• Climate Change and Daily Routine Acts: Potentials, Strategies and Instruments for a Low Carbon Lifestyle in a Zero-Emission-City Project part "Climate change and daily routine acts: impact potentials of climate change-adressing instruments"

  The project will analyse the impacts respectively the impact potentials of different climate-change related instruments differentiated according to social groups as distinguished within the project; herewith, efficiency and [...] More

• Sustainable Consumption through Social Innovation – Concepts and Practices

  The project “Sustainable Consumption through Social Innovation – Concepts and Practices” aims to explore potentials of social innovations for environmental policies for sustainable consumption. The focal point of the project [...] More

• Value Added by Renewable Energies - Calculation of the Effects on State and Federal Level

  Value added by renewable energies (RE) is an important argument for political decision-makers on different spatial scales. In the study “Local value added by renewable energy technologies”, the Institute for Ecological [...] More

• Development potential and marketing concept of the German Ecolabel Blue Angel

  The Blue Angel forms an important part of product-related environmental protection in Germany. It is the oldest environmental label in the world, and, in Germany, regarded as the central point of reference for sustainable [...] More

• Public sector and infrastructure financing of German seaports and waterways - Optimization instead of double sponsorship

  In German seaports parallel infrastructures with huge investment and maintenance costs are being funded despite increasing financial constraints. So, at the moment, on the one hand port infrastructures are being increasingly [...] More

• Value-Added and Employment Effects by the Expansion of Renewable Energies

  In the last few years, the IÖW has published a series of studies on the quantification of value added and employment by renewable energies. On behalf of Greenpeace Deutschland, the IÖW has updated value added and employment [...] More

• FAIR FUELS? A socio-ecological multi-level Analysis of the Possibilities of and Limits to the international Use of Biofuels Thematic Research Group

  The project “FAIR FUELS?” addresses the question of the extent to which biofuels can be produced and used in a socio-ecologically compatible manner. Since biofuels are produced regionally but the products and raw materials [...] More

• The Potential of Advanced Technological, Decentralised and Personalised Production against the Background of a Low Carbon Economy

  Funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, the project aims to identify the most relevant manufacturing and consumption patterns of the future. Therefore technological and organizational concepts will be [...] More

• Utilization of the current debates on social welfare for the environmental justice and conclusions for the political and societal transformation. Concepts of social welfare and environmental justice

  Subject of the project are the proposals on the transformation of society in the perspective of sustainable, future-oriented development that are currently discussed in wide areas of the interested public as well as in [...] More

• Improving strategic environmental policy consultancy in the context of the general principle of sustainable development - study and professional dialogue about approaches and utilization perspectives of environmental and sustainability research.

  In the field of sustainability research it can be observed that the successful transfer of generated knowledge into the various fields of social and political activity remains limited. Causes are, among others, that the [...] More

• BaltClim - Supporting national adaptation strategies to climate change in the Baltic States

  Although climate change in the Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania is already regarded as an important national issue, addressing the adaptation requirements for climate change such as sea levels rising, changes in [...] More

• CORPUS Enhancing the Connectivity Between Research and Policy-making in Sustainable Consumption

  "CORPUS - Enhancing the Connectivity Between Research and Policymaking in Sustainable Consumption” aims to develop novel approaches to knowledge brokering (KB) between policy-making and research. It will foster evidence-based [...] More

• Sustainable Publishing - New environmental standards for the publishing industry

  About 950 million books are produced each year in Germany. Books, magazines and newspapers today are manufactured in industrial processes causing large quantities of emissions, effluents and waste. At the same time the [...] More

• Energy Partnerships Berlin-Brandenburg

  The usage of renewable energies (biofuels, biogas, green electricity and hydrogen deriving from it) can be considered to be one of different approaches towards a more sustainable mobility. As especially Brandenburg offers [...] More

• Green public procurement: Follow up of the SCP/SIP action plan and GPP communication of the European Commission

  Objective of the project is the ongoing support of the market dissemination of environmentally more benign products and services by public procurement (GPP). Additionally, it is intended that the measures announced in the [...] More

• Impacts of the Expansion Plans for Renewable Energies until 2020 on Value Added and Employment

  Prior to the energy summit of the German federal government and the states on November 2nd, 2012, the German government proposed to limit support for wind energy and bioenergy generation similar to the cap imposed on the [...] More

• Adaptive support device/textile with pressure controlled stiffness and integrated sensor technologies inspired by the human skin

  The research project is funded by the Ministry of Research within the program Biona, which aims to support the development in biomimetic approaches. The project aims to develop an adaptive decubitus mattress for persons whose [...] More

• Research Activities and Core Competences Regarding Renewable Energy from Biomass and Wind Power in Berlin-Brandenburg

  In 2011, the Brandenburg Economic Development Board (ZAB) organized a conference with regional stakeholders from the energy sector to discuss and prioritize measures to support the further development in this sector. One of [...] More

• International analysis of the factors influencing the perception of nanotechnology

  While the relevance of nano-products for consumers is increasing, the level of knowledge among the general public concerning its application and potential impact remains relatively low. Yet, the public values the [...] More

• Investigation and support of two model communities for the assessment of municipal value added

  The Ministry for Climate Protection, Environment, Agriculture, Nature Conservation and Consumer Protection commissioned the IÖW to calculate the value added of renewable energies of two local authorities in the German State [...] More

• Social innovation and its diffusion: Social marketing and social entrepreneurship

  The research project aims at identifying success factors of new and target group specific marketing strategies for innovative social action. Those marketing strategies initiate both problem awareness as well as willingness to [...] More

• IÖW/future-Ranking of Sustainability Reports 2011

  The IÖW/future Ranking of Sustainability Reports regularly assesses the extra-financial reports of the 150 largest German companies on the one hand and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) on the other. The basis of the [...] More

• Revision of "Blue Angel" regulations in the field of heating rooms and buildings

  The German ecolabel “Blue Angel” (“Der Blaue Engel”) has been applied to environmentally friendly products since 1978. Space heating systems that have been awarded the Blue Angel are particularly efficient and low on [...] More

• Renewable Energies in Brandenburg 2030 - Expansion Potential and Value-added Effects

  Brandenburg seeks to reduce its energy-related CO2 emissions by 40 percent in 2020 compared to the year 1990. Furthermore, CO2 reductions of another 35 percent are planned until 2030. To achieve these objectives, the [...] More

• Development of an internet-based calculator to determine the local value added of renewable energies

  The Institute for Ecological Economy Research (IÖW) carried out the study "Local Value Added through Renewable Energies" between April and September 2010. The project was conducted on behalf of the German Renewable Energy [...] More

• Overall-effective measures for sustainable water resources management in the coastal area of Shandong Province, PR China

  Water shortage and water pollution are serious problems in China's Northern provinces which strongly influence not only socio-economic development, but also ecology and quality of life in these regions. Shandong Province and [...] More

• Converging Technologies – Socio-ecological options for shaping innovations (CONTEC)

  The growing connection between nanotechnologies, genetic engineering, information and communications technology and cognitive sciences is one of today’s most influential technological developments with far-reaching [...] More

• Evaluating Policies for Sustainable Development (EPOS)

  EPOS is a research project funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) in the framework of social-ecological research (SÖF). The main focus of the project is policy evaluation with a focus on [...] More

• Value Added by Renewable Energies in the German Federal State of Baden-Württemberg

  The Baden-Württemberg Ministry of the Environment, Climate Protection and the Energy Sector commissioned the IÖW to calculate the value added and employment effects of renewable energies in the federal state of [...] More

• Energy Efficiency and Employment

  Political targets aiming at mitigating climate change and increasing energy productivity will only be reached if companies significantly increase their energy efficiency. This can be based on efficient production processes or [...] More

• Interlinking of climate scenarios with other scenarios from the ecological and social area

  The integration of climate scenarios with other models for social and environmental development is a precondition for a reliable estimate of the future development of coupled human-environment systems under conditions of [...] More

• Policies to Encourage Sustainable Consumption

  The objective of the project is to provide policy guidance on how to change consumption patterns to make them more sustainable by using various approaches, including those based on behavioural research. To accomplish this, a [...] More

• Analysis of existing measures and development of innovative strategies to an improved application of synergies among environmental and social policy

  The project intends to analyse measures and strategies for an improved application of synergies among environmental and social policy and to develop innovative strategies for their application. Herewith, the preconditions for [...] More

• Evaluation of the NKI project "Eco-label of climate relevant products (climate angel)"

  Objective of the project is the evaluation of the elaboration of 10 additional product group requirements of the German eco-label "Blue Angle", which should strengthen the cluster "Protects the climate". In this context, [...] More

• Evaluation Utopia City Guide

  The task of the IÖW is the evaluation of a project of the Utopia AG called “Utopia City Guide”, where national yellow pages are developed, that are internet based and refer to green products and services only. The project is [...] More

• Decentralised micro biogas plants ("micro-biogas") Development of transferable concepts of sustainable biogene residue and waste materials usage for micro-biogas production in villages and rural areas.

  The project "micro-biogas" aims to develop transferable concepts of sustainable usage of biogene residue and waste materials for micro-biogas production in villages and rural areas. Technical concepts and feasibility studies [...] More

• Effects of self-consumption and grid parity of photovoltaic systems

  Many actors in the photovoltaic (PV) industry often proclaim the forthcoming “grid parity” as an important moment in the market development of PV. However, the exact meaning of this terminus and its potential effects on [...] More

• New Target Groups for the Blue Angel Eco-Labelling Scheme

  The Blue Angel faces a further changing environment: competition with other labels increases and the label's visibility on retailers' shelves declines. Against this background, the expertise aims to develop proposals for the [...] More

• Value added and employment creation of renewable energies in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania 2010 and 2030

  The IÖW develops in conjunction with the Center for Technology and Society (CTS), TU Berlin, and Rostock Energie-Umwelt-Beratung e.V./Institut (EUB) as part of a scientific study, a mission statement for "Mecklenburg-Western [...] More

• Value added and employment effects of wind energy in Baden-Wuerttemberg in the years 2010 and 2020

  Greenpeace commissioned the Institute for Ecological Economy Research (IÖW, Berlin) to determine value added and employment effects of wind energy (onshore) in Baden-Wuerttemberg for the years 2010 und 2020. Additionally, the [...] More

• Bioeconomy – Comment on the statement of the BioEconomy Council

  The BioEconomy Council has presented a study which deals with the perspectives and the action approaches to promote bio-economy. The basic orientation of bio-economy is that a fundamental change from the use of non-renewable [...] More

• SPICOSA (Science and Policy Integration for Coastal System Assessment)

  The overall objective of SPICOSA is to develop a self-evolving, holistic research approach for integrated assessment of Coastal Systems so that the best available scientific knowledge can be mobilized to support deliberative [...] More

• Stakeholder Dialogues: Adaptation to Climate Change

  Six stakeholder dialogues are conducted that aim at discussing challenges resulting from climate change and possible adaptation strategies. The dialogues are organised on different topics such as coastal areas (May 2009), [...] More

• 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