Project GourMed - Sustainability assessment of Mediterranean supply chains based on selected case studies
Project start 06/2021
The collaborative project GourMed conducts research with the aim of further developing food supply in the Mediterranean region and making it more effective, cost-efficient and sustainable.
moreProject BioSPRINT
Project start 06/2020
The hemicellulose fraction from side streams of the pulp and biofuel industry is the focus of the EU project. The aim is to purify and process them more efficiently and convert them into sugars that...
moreProject Evaluation of the funding of electric buses in public transport
Project start 06/2020
Since March 2018, the BMU has been supporting transport companies in the purchase of e-buses in local public transport. An impact evaluation of the support programme is now being carried out as part...
moreProject EnEff:Wärme: ENA – Energy Planning to Enable Waste Heat Use in District Heating
Project start 04/2020
In order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the heat supply of buildings, structural thermal insulation must be improved and renewable energies and waste heat must be developed. Heating network...
moreProject RME Eurostat IV
Project start 01/2020
RMC (Raw Material Consumption) is a key indicator to measure progress with regard to resource efficien-cy. It includes domestic extraction and imports minus exports measured in raw material...
moreProject PyroMar
Project start 01/2020
What could new sustainable ways of producing diesel and heavy fuel oil look like? What are the new raw materials? Pyromar is about producing “defossilised”, low-sulphur maritime bunker fuels from...
moreProject REFINE Analysis of raw material demand and environmental impacts of the energy transition in a resource efficient and greenhouse gas neutral Germany
Project start 12/2019
What is the raw material demand, and what are the environmental impacts linked to the energy sys-tem transition in Germany, considering the whole value chain within Germany and outside? What is the...
moreProject Decarbonisation of decentralised energy infrastructures
Project start 11/2019
The decarbonisation of district heating is challenging from a technical, socio-economic and institutional point of view. We analyse the framework conditions in five case studies and show...
moreProject MoniRess II
Project start 10/2019
Based on the results of MoniRess (inventory, monitoring and analysis of the international developments in the policy area of conserving natural resources), in MoniRess II the monitoring system is...
moreProject Accompanying research on catenary truck research in Germany
Project start 10/2019
The BOLD project evaluates the results of three current field tests with catenary trucks. This is intended to bundle the knowledge gained from all projects and to put it on a broader basis.
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