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Projects
The research group conducts research and consulting projects at the national, European and international level. At the European/international level, these have included projects commissioned bythe OECD and the European Commission as well as research projects funded by the “Framework Programmes for Research and Technological Development” (FP) of the EU. At the national level, the clients and sponsors include the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research as well as the German Federal Ministry of the Environment, the Federal Environment Agency, the German Federal Nature Conservation Agency, the State Government of Berlin, the German Parliament and the German Research Foundation.
Ongoing Projects
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2012 Berlin Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change
Duration: 04/01/2012 - 10/31/2012
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Resource Policy - PolRess
Duration: 01/15/2012 - 05/31/2015
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Expert Group on the State of Art in Europe on Responsible Research and Innovation
Duration: 01/01/2012 - 12/10/2012
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Green Jobs in Asia – Potentials and Prospects
Duration: 01/01/2012 - 03/31/2012
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Sustainable Germany 2030 to 2050 – How do we want to live in the future? Concepts and communication processes for a “Grand Design” of the German Sustainability Strategy from an environmental policy perspective
Duration: 10/01/2011 - 11/30/2014
Duration: 09/01/2011 - 12/31/2012
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Duration: 09/01/2011 - 08/31/2013
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Integrated Environmental Governance
Duration: 02/01/2011 - 12/31/2013
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Sustainability Check Luxembourg
Duration: 01/01/2011 - 05/31/2011
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Lead Market-Strategies
Duration: 10/01/2010 - 09/30/2013
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Network of Excellence - Linking Impact Assessment Instruments to Sustainability Expertise (LIAISE)
Duration: 11/02/2009 - 04/30/2014
Completed Projects
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Rio World Summit on Sustainable Development 2012 - Governance for a Green Economy
Duration: 07/01/2011 - 09/30/2011
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Review of Impact Assessment Systems in selected OECD countries
Duration: 07/01/2011 - 11/03/2011
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Institutions and Procedures of Parliamentary Sustainability Policy
Duration: 03/15/2011 - 10/14/2011
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Consideration of Sustainability Aspects in Policy Impact Assessment
Duration: 12/01/2010 - 01/14/2011
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Study on reducing environmentally harmful subsidies
Duration: 10/01/2010 - 12/31/2010
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Tools for Impact Assessment in the field of environmental protection – Development of an EIA tool in Poland
Duration: 09/01/2010 - 04/30/2011
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Improving the Effectiveness of Regulatory Impact Assessment in Ensuring Policy Coherence in the Design and Implementation of Regulatory and Environmental Policy
Duration: 08/01/2010 - 11/30/2010
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Options for the design of a Sustainability Impact Assessment for the OECD
Duration: 08/01/2010 - 09/30/2010
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2010 Berlin Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change: “The Social Dimension of Environmental Change and Governance”
Duration: 04/01/2010 - 01/31/2011
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Scenarios for an integrated sustainable development policy using the example of the Sustainable City 2030
Duration: 12/01/2009 - 11/30/2011
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Stock-taking of lessons learned from development cooperation in the field of environmental policy in selected Asian countries
Duration: 11/15/2009 - 11/30/2010
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Starting points for advancing innovative environmental and efficiency technologies - deliverable 1: export promotion
Duration: 10/06/2009 - 12/31/2010
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Environmental strategy development- Sustainable Management of political environmental goals and strategies
Duration: 09/01/2009 - 12/31/2011
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Peer Challenger Report - Facilitating the Review of German Sustainability Policies
Duration: 12/01/2008 - 10/31/2009
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Innovation Potentials in Eco-friendly Public Procurement
Duration: 10/01/2008 - 09/30/2009
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Meta-Analysis – Strategies of Sustainability in Politics and Economics
Duration: 09/01/2008 - 11/30/2010
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Sustainability Assessment within Regulatory Impact Assessment
Duration: 08/01/2008 - 01/31/2009
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Third Industrial Revolution – Challenges and Opportunities for Society and Politics
Duration: 04/01/2008 - 11/20/2008
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Environment and the Single Market
Duration: 12/01/2007 - 06/30/2010
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Comparative Analysis of Industrial Policy Measures
Duration: 11/15/2007 - 04/15/2008
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Series of Workshops on Ecological Industrial Policy
Duration: 11/15/2007 - 08/31/2008
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Study visit to Kenya ‘Environmental and Natural Resource Governance’
Duration: 10/01/2007 - 10/13/2007
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The Links between the Environment and Competitiveness
Duration: 09/15/2007 - 09/15/2008
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Material Efficiency and Resource Conservation (MaRess)
Duration: 07/25/2007 - 12/31/2010
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2008 Berlin Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change: Long-Term Policies: Governing Social-Ecological Change
Duration: 06/01/2007 - 12/31/2010
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Marie Curie Training Course on the Human Dimension of Global Environmental Change
Duration: 01/01/2007 - 12/31/2010
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Environment, Innovation and Employment in a European Context (UIB)
Duration: 11/01/2006 - 06/30/2007
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Co-ordination Action for Innovation in Life-Cycle Analysis for Sustainability (CALCAS)
Duration: 09/01/2006 - 02/28/2009
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Workshop on the Concept of Ecological Industrial Policy
Duration: 06/01/2006 - 09/30/2006
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2006 Berlin Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change: “Resource Policies: Effectiveness, Efficiency, and Equity”
Duration: 04/01/2006 - 12/31/2006
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Environmental Policy Integration and Multi-level Governance (EPIGOV)
Duration: 02/01/2006 - 01/31/2009
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Evaluating Integrated Impact Assessments (EVIA)
Duration: 02/01/2006 - 01/31/2008
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Modelling National Environmental Capacities
Duration: 10/01/2005 - 11/30/2007
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Evaluating the Austrian Sustainable Development Strategy
Duration: 05/01/2005 - 11/30/2005
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2004 Berlin Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change “Greening of Policies - Interlinkages and Policy Integration”
Duration: 04/01/2004 - 12/31/2004
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International Workshop: 'The Environmental Dimension of Impact Assessment'
Duration: 03/15/2004 - 08/31/2004
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I.Q. Tools - Indicators and Quantitative Tools for Sustainable Development
Duration: 01/01/2004 - 06/30/2006
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Study of Sustainable Development Initiatives and Strategies (Rioplus)
Duration: 12/15/2003 - 05/31/2004
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2003 Berlin Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change 'Governance for Industrial Transformation'
Duration: 04/01/2003 - 12/31/2003
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POINT 3 D: Integration of Sustainability Targets into Sectoral Policies
Duration: 06/01/2002 - 03/31/2004
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From Pilot Markets to Lead Markets. Policy-Frameworks for the Development of International Markets for Innovations of a Sustainable Economy
Duration: 03/01/2001 - 12/31/2003
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Interest groups in industrialised countries and national policy networks and their influence on the global environmental policy
Duration: 06/01/2000 - 12/31/2000
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Integration of social science knowledge into environmental communication
Duration: 10/01/1999 - 12/31/2001
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Influence of the users behaviour on the consumption of gas in insulated houses
Duration: 10/10/1998 - 09/30/1999
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Structural Change and Environmental Protection in Selected Basic Industries (2)
Duration: 02/01/1997 - 02/28/2000
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Structural Change and Environmental Protection in Selected Basic Industries (1)
Duration: 05/01/1995 - 04/30/1997
News
Presentation at Tsinghua University’s Center for Industrial Development and Environmental Governance (CIDEG) on strategies for the promotion of electric vehicles in China and Germany
On April 17, 2013 Holger Bär gave a presentation at the School of Public Policy & Management’s Center for Industrial Development and Environmental Governance of Tsinghua University on strategies in China and Germany to foster lead markets for electric vehicles.
05/02/2013
New Publication: Special Symposium on Nature, Science, and Politics, or: Policy Assessment to Promote Sustainable Development.
Nature+Culture, Volume 8, Number 1, Spring 2013
Editors: Sabine Weiland, Vivien Weiss and John Turnpenny
This special symposium explores how the construction and utilization of scientific knowledge in policy making and its impact in the policy process itself can be better understood.
04/21/2013
Presentation at Fraunhofer ISE on the evolution of the solar energy industry in China and Germany
On April 8, 2013, Rainer Quitzow gave a presentation at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE) on the development of the solar energy industry in China and Germany.
04/11/2013
Events
Workshop: Green innovation and its implications for economic growth
Am 12. Juli 2012 organisiert die Policy Assessment Gruppe des Forschungszentrums für Umweltpolitik gemeinsam mit der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) einen Workshop zum Thema "Green innovation and its implications for economic growth. A comparative perspective on German and Chinese experiences."
07/12/2012, 04:30 PMTime
Berlin Sustainability Talk mit Richard Hill
Am 03.09.2012 um 16h wird Dr. Richard Hill (University of Cape Town) zum Thema "Philosophical Ideas and Theoretical Insights to Improve the Practice of Environmental Assessment" sprechen.
09/03/2012, 04:00 PMTime
2012 Berlin Conference:
"Evidence for Sustainable Development."
10/05/2012
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10/06/2012
