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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

The Assessment Reports of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) are the basis for national and international policy in terms of mitigation of and adaptation to climate change. These reports document the most recent scientific knowledge ...

Around the world, rural and urban spaces are changing at an unprecedented pace. Demographic and economic processes, increasingly also climate change and environmental pollution, compel us to take action. The challenge is to design the modernisation ...

(only available in German) Viele relevante Entscheidungen für die Zukunft Deutschlands werden auf kommunaler Ebene getroffen. Kommunen prägen und gestalten die Bewältigung von Schrumpfung und Wachstum, die Anpassung von sozialen und technischen ...