Memory Energy Transition

Environmental Policy Research Center

Partners:                      Ökoinstitut Federal Environment Agency Agentur für Erneuerbare Energien Wuppertal Institut u.v.e The process of a societal Energy Transition is an undertaking that lasts for decades. To learn from the events experienced during ...

SUSTAIN IT! Initiative for Sustainability + Climate Protection

Kathrin Henße Leyla Ayas

Sep 01, 2010

The initative SUSTAIN IT! has the comprehensive goal of discussing local and global questions  of sustainability in the fields of politics, science, economics, adminstration, technology, society and education. Moreover, we want to contribute to making the Freie Universität Berlin a "greener" ...

Scientific Coordination of the Funding Priority Sustainable Economy (NaWiKo)

Jacob, Klaus

Project partners: Ecologic Institute, Fraunhofer ISI

Distributional effects of environmental policy measures in the transportation sector and designing a comprehensive concept for a socially compatible transportation turn (VERVE)

Rafael Postpischil

Jan 01, 2021 — May 31, 2023

The project aims at developing solutions for a socio-ecologic transformation of the transportation sector. Aside from environmental and climate change policy goals, social aspects covering distributional effects are supposed to be considered. learn more

Social cohesion, food and health. Inclusive food system transitions

Oct 15, 2020 — Oct 14, 2023

Consortium: Humboldt-Universität (Thaer-Institute for Agricultural and Horticultural Sciences), Charité (Medical Clinic of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Nutrition), Technische Universität (Center for Technology and Society, Food Biotechnology and Food Process Engineering), Freie Universität ...

Joint implementation of 2030-Agenda / SDGs and Paris Agreement

May 01, 2020 — Dec 31, 2021

Five years after passing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, and the Sendai-Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, there is considerable space for disillusionment: the implementation proves challenging, and progress does not suffice for achieving the ...

COME RES- Community Energy for the uptake of RES in the electricity sector. Connecting long-term visions with short-term actions

Sep 01, 2020 — Feb 28, 2023

Project partners       Freie Universität Berlin – Environmental Policy Research Centre, Germany (Coordination) Asociación Canaria de Energías Renovables (ACER), Spain Becker, Büttner & Held (bbh), Germany Center for International Climate Research (CICERO), Norway ...

ENABLE - Enabling the green transition in Norway

Jun 01, 2020 — Jul 01, 2023

Overall project objective The overall objective of ENABLE is to develop a more dynamic understanding of societal responses to emerging sustainable technologies and to explore how policy packages could be designed in response. The project is funded by the Norwegian Research Council and led by ...

Evaluation des Umweltinformationsgesetzes (UIG) – Analyse der Anwendung der Regelungen des UIG und Erschließung von Optimierungspotentialen für einen ungehinderten und einfachen Zugang zu Umweltinformationen

Nov 01, 2016 — May 31, 2019

Projektbeschreibung Das deutsche Umweltinformationsgesetz (UIG) ist in Form einer retrospektiven Gesetzesfolgenabschätzung zu evaluieren. Dabei ist zu untersuchen, ob die gesetzlichen Ziele des UIG, für einen freien Zugang zu Umweltinformationen bei informationspflichtigen Stellen sowie für ...

Evaluation, monitoring and adaptation of existing programmes and further development of the National Climate Initiative (NKI)

Dr. Maria Rosaria Di Nucci , Dr. Klaus Jacob, Dr. Kerstin Tews

Jul 01, 2015 — Jun 30, 2019

Project partners: Öko Institut e.V., IFEU, Prognos, Hochschule Karlsruhe, Dr. Ziesing, Prof. Dr. Klinski

Methods and measures to deal with socio-technical challenges in storage and disposal of radioactive waste management

Environmental Policy Research Centre

Apr 01, 2017 — Apr 30, 2020

How to carry out the site selection, construction, and operation of a final repository especially for high-level radioactive waste? How to organize the long-term interim storage, which is necessary until this final repository is built? Scientists and technologists contribute considerably to ...

Policy Scenarios of Resource Policy

Feb 01, 2017 — Sep 01, 2019

Partner: Fraunhofer ISI, Forum Ökologisch-Soziale Marktwirtschaft (FÖS)

Schüleruni Nachhaltigkeit und Klimaschutz

Environmental Policy Research Centre, Freie Universität Berlin

Sep 01, 2011 — Oct 01, 2015

Research Focus: Environmental education

Socio-ecological transformation of the food-system

Nov 01, 2017 — Sep 30, 2019

Partner: NAHhaft e.V., Albert-Ludwig-Universität

TRends In Global Governance and Europe’s Role (TRIGGER)

Nov 01, 2018 — Dec 31, 2021

The European Union is a multi-dimensional, constantly changing player in global governance. Depending on the policy area, the EU has different levels of “actorness” and “powers”. The EU evolves by featuring different multi-level governance arrangements in different sectors and policy ...

The political economy of e–mobility. An analysis on the potentials and obstacles in the transformation to a sustainable transport policy in Germany and the European Union

Environmental Policy Research Centre

Nov 01, 2017 — Apr 30, 2021

In the last years, numerous technical, social and political impulses have been set for an expansion of electro-mobility. The technological progress of providers such as Tesla, the introduction of quotas for electric vehicles as in China, the so-called “diesel affair” or the imposed ban on new ...

WinWind - Winning social acceptance for wind energy in wind energy scarce regions

Forschungszentrum für Umweltpolitik

Anna Will

Oct 01, 2017 — Mar 31, 2020

Project partners        Freie Universität Berlin – Environmental Policy Research Centre, Germany (Coordination) Canary Association of Renewable Energies (ACER), Spain Center for International Climate and Environmental Research (CICERO), Norway Ecoazioni, Italy ECORYS ...

„Keeping a cool head in hot times“: How "governance by integrative visions" (GoIngVis) can support cities in achieving heat risk resilience

Oct 01, 2018 — Sep 30, 2021

Climate change affects cities in various ways and requires the development of new strategies to adapt to extreme weather events. To date, strategies for small towns have not been addressed sufficiently enough in adaptation to research and politics. In contrast, almost all major cities have created ...