Dr Edgar Göll
Senior Researcher

Dipl.-Sociologist | Administrative Scientist
The person
Dr Edgar Göll has been a Senior Researcher at the IZT since 2020. From 2014-2020, he was IZT's Co-Research Director of the Futures Studies and Participation and Futures Studies and Transformation clusters. Edgar Göll joined the IZT in 1995 as a research associate. His work focuses on futures research, sustainable development, Local Agenda 21, governance, participation and globalisation.
In 2016, he was elected to the board of 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 the recipient of the 2011 Robert Jungk Research Fellowship from 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 application "Politics/Governance".
He is a founding member of the association "Berlin 21" (and its predecessor bodies) and was an expert in the commissions of enquiry of the Berlin House of Representatives on sustainable development and Local Agenda 21. As a long-standing editor of the now defunct journal "Zukünfte", he is still the contact person for the journal's archive. Research stays took him to the Austrian Institute for Sustainable Development (ÖIN) in Vienna and to the Salzburg University of Applied Sciences ("Land Salzburg Research Fellowship"). Edgar Göll is a member of the practical network "Extracurricular Educational Worlds" in the UNESCO World Action Programme Education for Sustainable Development in the FRG.
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
Selected projects and publications
Projects
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2021 - 2024
Valuing biodiversity to modernise business reporting 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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2020
Cracking mental path dependencies
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2020
Trends and megatrends as an approach to modern futurology. Development and practice
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2019
Imagining Future(s) for the Middle East and North Africa
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2019
Sustainable Development in the Mena Region
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2019
On the way to a Green Economy
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2020
Imaginer l(es) avenir(s) du moyen-orient et de le'afrique du nord
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2019
Looking to the future: Socio-economic and socio-cultural trends in resource conservation
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2019
The future in view: Technology trends in the nexus of resource efficiency and climate protection
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2018
Repair Cafés
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2018
Foresight and Modern Future Research: Possibilities and Practice