Funding Measures Archive

Worldwide there is an increasing share of people that are moving. To a large extent, people from rural areas move to cities. Many immigrants have also found a new home in European cities. Those immigrants primarily chose urban districts that are ...

The Automated Multisensor Stations for Monitoring of BioDiversity (AMMOD) project will enable large-scale automated counting and identification of animal and plant species. Modelled on the weather stations used to record meteorological data, this network ...

Facing the threat of biodiversity decision makers need from research sustainable concepts for using and retaining natural resources. The parternship BiodivERsA coordinates biodiversity research funding in Europe.

The collaborative research project “Diversity of Insects in Nature protected Areas (DINA)” examines the causes of insect decline in nature reserves. The project develops joint recommendations for decision making and viable measures for the better ...

How can we preserve ecosystem services? For example, the Amazon rainforest's performance as a global oxygen producer and carbon dioxide reservoir is being significantly reduced. The BMBF is funding research into the causal chains of action.

The Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the French National Research Agency (ANR) are continuing their long-standing successful cooperation in science and research. The goal of the latest call for proposals is to strengthen ...

Alongside globalization and climate change, digitization is one of the major megatrends of the present day that is changing the lives of all people. Digitization also offers promising opportunities for more resource and energy efficient water management. ...

How can food supply, energy systems and urban digital infrastructures develop sustainably? How can water industries be sustainably managed and flood risk in urban areas better be tackled? What is the role of intellectual property rights to accelerate ...

The Paris Agreement on Climate Change poses unique challenges for science as the Parties recognized ''the need for an effective and progressive response to the urgent threat of climate change on the basis of the best available scientific knowledge''.

More than half of the world’s population lives in cities, and by 2050 this figure will rise to over 70%. Even today, cities consume up to 80% of the energy produced worldwide and are responsible for up to 70% of global resource consumption. This means ...

The Federal Ministry of Education and Research will fund nine collaborative research projects on rebound effects under the Research for Sustainable Development (FONA) framework programme. It aims to generate knowledge about the management of rebound ...

Approximately 24 billion cubic meters of natural gas will be stored underground in Germany. These subterranean reserves could provide gas throughout Germany for a quarter of a year. In addition to underground storage, the uses of subsurface geostructures ...

(only available in German) Bedarf trifft auf Lösungen: In der „Roadshow Nachhaltige Entwicklung“ erhalten Städte und Gemeinden Informationen und Beratung, wie sie ihre Ressourcen Energie, Wasser und Land gewinnbringend nutzen können. ...

The target of funding under the “CLIENT II – International Partnerships for Sustainable Innovations” programme is to support international partnerships in the areas of climate, environment and energy. The programme plays a significant role in the ...

The funding measure "CO2Plus - Utilisation of CO2 to broaden the raw material base" supports joint research projects in applied and industrial research and development (R&D). The call aims at the broadening of the raw material base in particular that of ...