Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISIThe Business Unit Water Resources Management analyzes and assesses current changes in important framework conditions and the application potentials of technical and organizational innovations, and derives measures to improve the sustainability of water systems and infrastructures.
Projects
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Water Resources Management
- Stakeholder dialogue "Trace Substance Strategy of the German Federal Government"
- Dialogue forum "Spurenstoffe im Hessischen Ried" (in German)
- AMPHORE - Regional sewage sludge and ash management for phosphorus recycling for a conurbation
- i.WET Demonstration project in Lünen (in German)
- Water Management Plan Hesse, Draft of the plan (in German)
- Environmental emissions of active pharmaceutical ingredients - assessment of emissions and consequences for risk assessment and management - Part I: Conceptual design of the surveys and Part II: Surveys and balancing of emissions (in German)
- Reducing emissions of residues of pharmaceutical substances into the aquatic environment in selected pilot areas (ReAs 1 and 2)
- Practicability of urine collection systems to reduce X-ray contrast agent input into waste water (in German)
- Bundled infrastructure planning and admissions and integrated conversion of regional supply systems – challenges for environmental and sustainability assessments? (INTEGRIS)
- Climate protection and energy efficiency potentials in the wastewater sector (KlimAW)
- Morgenstadt: City Insights (m:ci): Water infrastructure in the Morgenstadt
- Accompanying research project on the BMBF funding measure MachWas – Materials for sustainable water management (MachWasPlus)
Sustainability Innovation and Policy
The Business Unit Sustainability Innovation and Policy analyzes the environmental impacts of technical and social innovations and examines which political measures are best suited to support environmentally friendly innovations to reach their full potential.
- Conceptualizing, implementing and measuring the Circular Economy from the micro to the macro level (Circularity3)
- Better access and visibility of sustainability information in online trade through artificial intelligence (ZuSiNa)
- Innovative Kreislaufgeschäftsmodelle in der Textilwirtschaft (Wear2Share)
- Bioeconomy innovations in traditional sectors: the example of three innovation lines in meat analogues (TRADINNOVATION)
- Socially responsible research (LeNa-Shape)
- Interactions between the process of digitalization and the transition to a green economy (Digi & Green Economy)
- r+Impuls Funding Program (r+TeTra)
- German Innovation Prize for Climate and the Environment (IKU)
Raw Materials
The Business Unit Raw Materials works in national and international projects, but publicly and privately funded.
- Multi-criteria optimization: Impacts of recycling potentials, critical resources and supply chain risks resulting from the energy transition in Germany (Energiewende) (RESUME)
- Conceptualizing, implementing and measuring the Circular Economy from the micro to the macro level (Circularity3)
- The promise and limits of Urban Mining
- Fraunhofer Lighthouse Project Critical Rare Earths
- Solutions for CRitical Raw materials – a European Expert Network (SCRREEN)
- r4 Integration and Transfer Project (r4 INTRA)
- Global Copper Flow Model: Development of a global copper flow model
- EU Policy on Natural Resources (POLINARES)
- Integration and transfer of the r³ research results on securing a sustainable supply of strategic metals and minerals (INTRA r³ +)
- Raw materials for emerging technologies 2021
Mobility
The Business Unit Mobility develops innovative transport concepts and investigates the impact of transport policy instruments.
- National Cycling Plan 3.0
- The impacts of automated and connected road vehicles on energy and greenhouse gas emissions
- Scientific monitoring and support of the German government’s Mobility and Fuels Strategy (MFS)
- Employment impacts of sustainable mobility
- European Rail Freight Corridors going Carbon Neutral (LowCarb RFC)
- The Results and efficiency of railway infrastructure financing within the EU (Ten-T-Rail)
- ImpRES - Impact of renewable energy sources
- Assessing the Social and Economic Impacts of Past and Future Sustainable Transport (ASSIST)
- Business case to increase female employment in transport (FemTR)