Dr Edgar Göll
Senior Researcher
Dipl.-Sociologist | Administrative Scientist
The person
Dr Edgar Göll has been working as a Senior Researcher at the IZT since 2020. From 2014-2020 he was Co-Research Director of the Cluster "Futures Studies and Participation" and "Futures Studies and Transformation" at the IZT. Edgar Göll joined the IZT in 1995 as a research associate. His work focuses on futures studies, sustainable development, Local Agenda 21, governance, participation and globalisation. At the IZT he is responsible for the relationship and membership of the WFSF (World Future Studies Federation) and was involved in the preparation of the 24th WFSF World Conference ("The Openness of Futures").
In 2016, he was elected to the board of the Netzwerk Zukunftsforschung e.V.. He is a member of the Academic Board of the "European Journal for Futures Research" (Springer). In spring 2014, Dr Göll was a short-term lecturer at the University of Antananarivo, Madagascar. From 2007 to 2009, Dr Göll worked as a consultant and researcher at the Center for Future Studies (CFS), a staff unit of the Cabinet Information and Decision Support Center (IDSC) in Cairo, Egypt. His stay was organised by CIM (Frankfurt/M.) in the "Integrated Experts" programme. Dr Göll was awarded the Robert Jungk Research Fellowship 2011 by the City of Salzburg and the Robert Jungk Centre Salzburg. Since 2010, Dr Göll has also been a lecturer in the Master's programme "Futures Studies" at the Institut Futur of the FU Berlin in the field of "Politics/Governance".
He is a founding member of the "Berlin 21" association (and its predecessor bodies) and was an expert for the Berlin House of Representatives' enquiry commissions on sustainable development and Local Agenda 21. As a long-standing editor of the now defunct magazine "Zukünfte", he is still the contact person for the magazine's archive. Research stays have taken him to the Austrian Institute for Sustainable Development (ÖIN) in Vienna and to the Salzburg University of Applied Sciences ("Land Salzburg Research Fellowship").
He studied sociology, administrative sciences and social sciences at universities and colleges in Bielefeld, Madison/USA, Speyer, FU Berlin and completed his doctorate at the University of Göttingen. Before that he trained as a toolmaker.
Expertise
- Applied futurology
- Governance
- Future studies and foresight projects
- Sustainability assessments
- Social innovation
- Politics/Governance
- Society
Selected projects and publications
Projects
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2021 - 2024
Valuing Biodiversity - On the Modernisation of Economic Reporting in Germany
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2021 - 2024
Konnekt - Inter-communal cooperation and transformation as the basis for a regional circular economy and sustainable regional development in the district of Saarlouis
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2021 - 2023
Impact assessment and dissemination potentials of social innovations for sustainable consumption - FoSInKo
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2021
School of the Future - Futures of Education. Transformation processes at schools in Germany
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2019 - 2020
Mobility Foresight Study China & Germany. Within the framework of the BMU IKI-Project "Sino-German Cooperation on Low Carbon Transport" (CLCT)
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2019
Conception, implementation and follow-up of an initial and a follow-up workshop "Sustainable Work in the Context of the 2030 Agenda/German Sustainability Strategy".
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2017 - 2018
NAT Thuringia
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2016 - 2019
Participation and impact - target group-oriented methodology and impact measurement in environmental education
Publications
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2022
Practical Relevance, Usefulness, and Effectiveness
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2022
Circular Cities in Europe. Learnings from Amsterdam, London and Copenhagen for a Circular City Berlin
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2022
EcoCityVillages: An option for sustainable coexistence
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2022
How open to change is the education system? Relevant developments and education policy requirements. Interview
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2021
Assessments of the future of digital collaboration in companies. Results of the "Digital Future Salon" on digital collaboration
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2021
Sustainability and climate policy in Cuba. Born out of necessity, but successful.
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2021
Blocked Neighbourhood. USA and Cuba between rapprochement, sanctions and Cold War
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2021
Grand Challenges. Transformation and research on futures
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2021
Internal crowdsourcing in companies
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2020
Cracking mental path dependencies