36 running Projects // 387 Projects in total

• Designetz: A Modular Concept for the Energy Transition From Isolated Solutions to an Efficient Energy System of the Future

  

  The ‘Designetz’ showcase spans North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate and the Saarland. It aims to supply solar and wind energy to urban and industrial consumers. For this purpose numerous demonstration projects are [...] More

• Environmental Awareness in Germany 2018 Representative Survey on Environmental Awareness and Environmental Behaviour in 2018, including Socio-scientific Analyses and Development of a Youth Policy Agenda

  The environmental awareness study has been gathering information on environmental awareness of the population in Germany in a representative poll every two years since 1996. Citizens are asked about their assessment of the [...] More

• ProPower: System Analysis Power2Products Economic and socio-ecological implications of a cross-sectoral power utilisation

  Achieving climate protection targets requires defossilisation in all sectors and thus a comprehensive transformation of the energy system and industry. Power-to-X technologies use electricity to supply products and provide [...] More

• LiLa Living Lahn Socio-economic monitoring and assessment of changes in ecosystem services

  The project 'LiLa Living Lahn' looks at positive and negative effects of selected courses of action for the development of the river Lahn on ecosystem services (ES) and evaluates them economically, if possible. Thereby, it [...] More

• Climate Resilient City of Bremen BREsilient

  

  Climate change affects Bremen in many ways. To meet these challenges, the city state created an adaptation strategy. The project “BREsilient” aims at developing Bremen into a climate resilient city of the future. It builds on [...] More

• PROSumers for the Energy Union (PROSEU) Mainstreaming active participation of citizens in the energy transition

  

  The focus of PROSEU is the research into, as well as the design of, incentive structures for mainstreaming prosumerism in the European Union, thereby encouraging and safeguarding citizen participation, inclusiveness and [...] More

• Making Berlin compliant with the Paris resolutions: Update of the Feasibility Study Climate Neutral Berlin 2050 Feasibility Study

  The Paris Agreement, which is binding under international law, has created a new basis for climate policy in all countries and municipalities. In order to contribute to achieving the goal of limiting anthropogenic global [...] More

• Financial participation of affected municipalities in planning, construction and operation of renewable energy plants FinBEE

  Planning, construction and operation of renewable energy plants generate added value and employment. How much of this remains in the region depends heavily on the structure of the project as well as country and region [...] More

• New Alliances for Sustainability Policy Cooperation perspectives for environmental actors with unions, social organization and charities

  Environmental actors increasingly realize the need of cooperative thinking and acting. Links to other policy areas are too close; possible impacts of the necessary transformation too strong. It is essential to convince [...] More

• River Ecosystem Service Index – Practical implementation in the Lahn river basin (RESI-Lahn)

  Rivers and floodplains play an important role for people - from flood protection and water management to recreation and nature conservation. In order to demonstrate the wide range of ecosystem services, the project 'River [...] More

• Online value added calculator for renewable energies – Update 2020

  The Institute for Ecological Economy Research (IÖW) and the Agency for Renewable Energies (AEE) developed, on behalf of and in cooperation with the Rhineland-Palatinate Energy Agency, an update of the previously jointly [...] More

• Social-ecological economy within planetary boundaries

  WWF's goal is to develop an attractive and convincing narrative that a more social and ecological economy is urgently needed due to the serious global environmental problems such as the loss of biodiversity, ocean [...] More

• Energy storage services for smart neighbourhoods (Esquire)

  

  For the energy transition, it becomes more and more important to storage power decentralized. This way, local produced renewable energy can be consumed flexible while reliving the power grid. An important component are [...] More

• Distribute Green Local Supply Chains for Tomorrow’s City

  

  E-cargo bikes instead of vans and light trucks for the delivery of goods on the last mile: This is how the project “Distribute” tries to relieve increasing neighborhood traffic. Door delivery has long been an integral part of [...] More

• Biodiversity Criteria in Public Procurement II Further development and practical concretization of biodiversity criteria in selected public procurement product groups of the German Federal Government

  There is high pressure to achieve an immediate and substantial change towards more sustainable production and consumption patterns. This also applies to biological diversity: the production and consumption patterns prevailing [...] More

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• PADO – Processes and Implications of Dune Breaching at the German Baltic Sea Coast Subproject Economic Valuation

  An implementation of coastal protection processes does not only affect the flood risk for coastal land uses, but also the natural coastal scenery, coastal biodiversity and groundwater quality. For decisions on coastal [...] More

• Regional flexibilities of prosumers in households and in the commercial sector Determination of regional flexibilities as part of the project „WindNODE – showcasing smart energy systems from northeastern Germany”

  In the decentralised energy transition, it is possible for households, prosumers and businesses to make their energy consumption more flexible. As a result, they can shift their energy demand to times of high supply. This [...] More

• Municipalities in Climate Emergency: Processes, Properties and Focuses

  With the worldwide movement of local communities and municipalities, as well as state and regional governments, to declare a climate emergency, they acknowledge the urgent need for climate protection and initiate or increase [...] More

• Urban Heat Shift Participatory Transformation of Coupled Infrastructures, Focusing on Heat Supply in Berlin

  

  Almost 50% of final energy consumption in Germany is used for heating, thus heat consumption is an important factor when it comes to tackling global challenges such as climate change, energy efficiency and resource [...] More

• Sustainable bioeconomy in Brandenburg – Examples of climate-friendly and environmentally friendly regional value chains

  In April 2014, the Federal State Government of Brandenburg passed its Sustainability Strategy. One of the 16 fields of action focus on the management of „natural resources as the economic potential of a sustainable regional [...] More

• Detailed Economic Analysis of Individual Policy Instruments and Measures for Climate Change Adaptation

  Climate change affects Germany in various ways, for example by increased storms, heat waves and extreme rainfall. The research project analyses to what degree adaption measures and instruments can reduce the expected damage [...] More

• Value of Green Urban Spaces Evaluation, Management and Communication as a key for climate resilient and near-natural green spaces

  

  The research project aims at supporting communal activities for identifying, selecting and realising measures for greening public spaces that at the same time enhance climate resilience of cities and contribute to the [...] More

• KonsumWende Sustainable consumption for the preservation of ecosystem services and biodiversity worldwide

  The consumption of goods and services has become a defining characteristic of modern-day (industrial) societies and is accompanied by an enormous and continuously increasing use of resources. Agricultural production is for [...] More

• The governance of deep transitions: The role of International Organisations

  The subproject ‘The governance of deep transitions: The role of international organisations’ is part of a larger research project based at the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU), University of Sussex (SPRU) in the UK and is [...] More

• Approaches to Resource Conservation in the Context of Post-Growth Concepts

  

  The recent institutions of society and economy are mainly focused on economic growth, measured in Gross National Product (GDP). This enhances a consumption of resources that is incompatible with planetary boundaries. Current [...] More

• The Crafts as Shapers of the Heating Transition (c.HANGE)

  The energy transition does not work without a heating transition. More than 80 percent of households' energy consumption is due to the provision of space heating and hot water supply. The average age of heaters in residential [...] More

• Future Potentials of a Rural Bio-Economy Analysis and Assessment of Value Chains of a Multiple and Cascade Based Usage of Renewable Raw Resources (Phase I)

  A resource-efficient economy based on renewable resources, with less or even no use of fossil resources at all – that is the objective of the German “National Policy Strategy on Bioeconomy”. The German Federal Government [...] More

• Consumer Role New Consumption Practices and Changes in the Consumer Role

  In recent years, collaborative economy practices have been boosted substantially by the advent of the Internet and the proliferation of digital networks. As collaboration between strangers has been greatly facilitated by the [...] More

• AcceptEE - Factors for promoting acceptance of renewable energies

  The acceptance of renewable energies is a central condition for a successful German "Energiewende". Therefore, this project aims to investigate the question whether a nature and environmentally friendly expansion of renewable [...] More

• Regional Usage of Groundwater in Climate Change

  

  The goal of this project is to find workable solutions to cover the regional needs of water in the future, regarding to the aspect of climate change. Management strategies towards the regional water resources, the development [...] More

• Scientific Support of Processes for an Enforced Consideration of Environmental Criteria in Public Procurement (GPP)

  Main objective of the project is to support the German Federal Environment Agency in its activities to strengthen green public procurement (GPP) in Germany. The very first task of the consortium consists of drafting a [...] More

• Linking Innovative Forms of Living With Mobility Services in Business Models Housing Providers and Initiatives as Initiators and Actors of Socio-ecological Change

  Housing and mobility are closely interlinked in everyday life. They shape land uses, environmental quality and quality of living. In order to minimize social and ecological impairment, it is useful to consider housing and [...] More

• Carbon-neutral regions as strategic approach for support of sustainable consumption patterns Analysis and development of political recommendations

  The chances of regional policy approaches for climate protection become more and more clear. Strategies like “climate-neutral region” or “100 percent renewable-energy region” are an indicator for promising approaches. The [...] More

• Renewable Energy Projects in Lignite Mining Regions

  The Climate Action Plan 2050 states that the climate protection goals can only be achieved, if there is a gradual reduction of coal-fired power generation. To ensure a bearable development for the affected lignite mining [...] More

• Investigation of the ecological importance of disposable drink cups for out-of-home consumption and possible measures to reduce consumption

  The change in living and working conditions over recent years has led to an increase in out-of-home consumption. Convenience also applies to the consumption of soft drinks and hot beverages. The total quantity of takeaway [...] More

• Marktstudie: Nachhaltige biobasierte Produkte, Gütezeichen, Hersteller und Bedarfe der öffentlichen Hand Artikel für den Bürobedarf

  Dieses Projekt unterstützt die Fachagentur Nachwachsende Rohstoffe dabei, den Markt im Segment biobasierter Büroartikel systematisch zu erfassen – von Büroklammern, Holz- und Biokunststoff-Stiften und Mousepads bis hin zu [...] More

• Cooperation and participation process for the further development of the German Strategy for Adaptation to Climate Change (participation process DAS)

  In consideration of the ongoing climate change, adaptation to its inevitable consequences has gained relevance in recent years both in research and in politics. In Germany, the Federal Government resolved the German Strategy [...] More

• PeerSharing

  

  The project “Peer-Sharing” focuses on innovative online-platforms, which act as an intermediary for peer-to-peer (consumer to consumer) lending, buying or swapping of products or services. At this point digital peer-to-peer [...] More

• Needs and Opportunities for Climate Resilient and Sustainable Design of National and Cross-Border Infrastructure

  The result of the research project will be the systematization and processing of existing knowledge concerning the development dynamics, the guiding principles and the interdependencies of the infrastructures and possible [...] More

• Innovative System Solutions for a Transdisciplinary and Regional Ecological Flood Risk Management and River Basin Management/Water(course) Development Close to Nature

  Aim of the project is to develop tools for a management on river basin level, which contribute to a systematic synergetic effect in the implementation of two directives of the European Union (EU): the Water Framework [...] More

• Commons-based Peer Production in Open Labs (COWERK)

  

  The project COWERK intends to examine the adoption of cooperative ways of organizing the economy by using the example of open-access labs. The project has the aim of analyzing the adoption of new technological methods in the [...] More

• Internet-Based Value-Added Calculator for Energy-Saving Building Refurbishment

  

  The economic effects of energy efficiency measures and especially those of energy-saving building refurbishment are barely mentioned in regional energy concepts. In view of this fact the German Federal Ministry for the [...] More

• Regional and economic potentials of agro-forestry systems Economic analysis of value-added chains for evaluation and quantification of the economic factor of agro-forestry systems in a model region of the research project called AUFWERTEN

  The innovation group AUFWERTEN aims to investigate into needed preconditions for a stronger implementation of agro-forestry systems in rural areas. For that, an trans- and interdisciplinary approach is applied. The IÖW will [...] More

• LowExTra – Low-Exergy-Grids for Storing and Distributing Heat at Different Temperature Levels

  The objective of the project is to investigate and develop a new, intelligent and democratic district heating grid. The grid is - in contrast to exisisting district heating systems with one flow line and one return line - [...] More

• Ranking of sustainability-related product information in E-Commerce (Top100 Online Shops)

  Product information serves to provide consumers with information and guidance about the sustainability of goods. Thus, product information works as a decision-making aid between more or less sustainable products. Given the [...] More

• IT and Electrical Power Supply: Potentials and Risks of Coupling Regarding Vulnerability and Resilience

  

  With the Energiewende Germany has to arrange a fundamental transformation of the energy system, which will be characterized by a high content of volatile renewable energies. The accompanying fluctuations of the energy supply [...] More

• Sustainability Strategies and Policies: Challenges and Approaches

  The project supports the Federal Environment Agency and the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety in the further development of the sustainability and environmental programs [...] More

• Procurement Specifications Considering Biodiversity - Feasibility Study and Action Plans for German Public Procurement and the Construction Sector

  Per year around 480 billion Euro are spent on the public procurement in Germany. This market power can contribute to the conservation of biodiversity if e.g. biodiversity criteria are embedded in public tenders and thus it [...] More

• Current discussion on the introduction of an innovation principle and the relationship to the precautionary principle Short Study

  In order to improve the innovation climate in Germany and Europe, representatives of research-intensive large companies and meanwhile the EU are calling for the introduction of an “innovation principle”, which should [...] More