Current projects of Dr. Frieder Rubik

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  Bringing sustainable consumption into the mass market: Identifying and promoting green key products with high diffusion potential

  Sustainable consumption is an important task within the transformation to an economy and society following the sustainable development goals. In Germany, sustainable consumption has been systematically promoted through the [...] More

• Digitisation and sustainability at EU level Opportunities and risks of digitisation for the implementation of the 2030 Agenda at EU level

  Digitalisation is profoundly changing our society and economy, but its socio-ecological effects are double-edged. The Federal Environment Ministry (BMU) has clearly identified this ambivalence of digitalisation in its [...] More

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  Civil society feedback loops as impulses for sustainable product development A project on consumer protection in the service of the UN Agenda 2030 and the Sustainable Development Goals (SdgPro)

  

  The project refers to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) of the United Nations, specifically to Sustainable Development Goal 12, and considers consumption and production as central elements of a circular economy, in [...] More

• DiTex – Digital Technologies as Enabler of a Resource-efficient Circular Economy: Pilot Test in the B2B Textile Industry

  

  Whether in health care, gastronomy or police: Workwear leads to enormous quantities of identical textiles – with serious consequences for the environment. One possible solution is a closed-loop textile industry with [...] More

• Business models for reducing plastic waste along the value chain: Towards innovative trends in retailing Innoredux

  

  The idea and aim of the Innoredux project is to avoid or reduce plastic waste along the value chain in both distance selling and stationary trade. As part of this, the project partners cooperate with a number of industrial [...] More