Our fields of research
The IZT stands for the major topics of sustainability and shaping the future, technology assessment and technology design, and is a pioneer in key cross-cutting and integrative fields such as sustainability, digitalisation and resilience.
Education and Digital Media
At the IZT, "Learning" stands for future-oriented media-didactic education with a focus on sustainability and applied practice-relevant future topics such as artificial intelligence or sustainable nutrition.
Selected projects and publications
Projects
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2021 – 2024
KlimaRatSchule - Protecting the climate through democratic participation in schools. School: Change: Act.
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2020 – 2022
CLIKIS Network
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2019 – 2024
BilRess network: Support for education providers in the field of resource efficiency
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2015 – 2019
BilRess network: Education for resource conservation and resource efficiency
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2020 – 2021
KEEKS-Berlin: Climate and Energy Efficient Kitchen at Berlin Schools
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2020 – 2023
Resource competence for the use of raw materials in global value chains: an exemplary analysis using the example of the study programmes in design and engineering sciences
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2019 – 2022
go green! The future is in your hands!
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2018 – 2021
KORN-SCOUT - Of the grain and its many users - Strengthening grain competences for sustainability in the food craft sector
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2019
WAVE - Know, Apply, Understand and Experience Artificial Intelligence
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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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2018
SLOW Smart Learning - Use of media in online continuing education
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2018 – 2019
CLIKIS - Climate friendly Kitchen in Schools
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2012 – 2016
BilRess: Identification and development of offers for all educational sectors on the topic of resource conservation and resource efficiency.
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2019 – 2020
Land with AI - Land with a future?
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2015 – 2019
LehrRess - Support for education providers in the field of resource efficiency
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2016
Development of a curriculum for further training for trainees as "ResourceScouts".
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2018
Digitisation of the skilled crafts using the example of eight learning stations
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2016
Environmental education for migrants - the development of short videos
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2014 – 2017
Smart Learning - Use of media in further training in the crafts sector
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2022 – 2023
Project Agency Vocational Education and Training for Sustainable Development (PA-BBNE) of the Partner Network Vocational Education and Training
Digitisation
The IZT investigates the causes, interrelationships and effects of digitalisation on the economy and society in research projects and commissioned work.
Selected projects and publications
Projects
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2020
Data governance and regulation for a sustainable Berlin
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2020 – 2023
CO:DINA - Transformation Roadmap Digitalisation and Sustainability
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2021
Supporting UBA in the preparation of a report on the topic of "Digitisation and Sustainability" in the German-Chinese Environmental Partnership Phase II
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2021
Policy Paper on Digital Geopolitics in the Global South in a Development Policy Context
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2021
Digital Transformation in the Global South: Transatlantic principles for value-based cooperation
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2017
Real-Time Delphi: Digitisation and Sustainability
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2019
Real-Time Delphi for the CAIS Research Incubator "Prospects for Digitisation Research
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2019 – 2020
Land with AI - Land with a future?
Energy, climate and infrastructure
The focus of the "Energy" topic area is research on the energy transition or the transformation of our energy system and energy use.
Selected projects and publications
Projects
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2022 – 2025
EmPowerPlan - Participation and justice on the ground and looking at the big picture
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2020 – 2023
Preparation of the content of public participation in the context of updating the National Clean Air Programme
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2019 – 2023
5G-VICTORI - Vertical demos over Common large scale field Trials for Rail, energy and media Industries
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2023 – 2024
Scientific support of a concept, piloting and guideline development in the context of energy sharing
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2017 – 2022
Innovative Solutions in Future Stations, Energy Metering and Power Supply (In2Stempo)
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2017 – 2019
NERC Directive: Further development of forecasts for air pollutants for national clean air programmes
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2021
Use of digital technologies in energy communities
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2014 – 2016
Strong female craftswomen Energy + Efficiency
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2020
Germany on the way to climate neutrality: What opportunities and risks does digitalisation present?
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2017 – 2018
HERBIE - Comparative Evaluation of Vegetation Control and Management Methods for European Railways
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2016 – 2020
Evaluation of the National Efficiency Label for old heating systems
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2020 – 2022
More quality of life, less environmental consumption - user-oriented development of sufficiency policy project outlines in the environment ministry
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2017 – 2019
Evaluation of the project "Market Monitoring Support" in the framework of the National Action Plan on Energy Efficiency (NAPE)
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2016 – 2017
SUSTAIN - Best Practices, Benchmarking and Recommendations for Sustainable Stations
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2013 – 2016
VerNetzen: Social-ecological, technical and economic modelling of development paths of the energy transition
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2019 – 2020
TRISTRAM - TRansItion STRategy on vegetAtion Management
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2018 – 2019
Research map on coupled, climate-resilient, sustainable infrastructures in Europe
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2017
Prospects for citizen participation in the energy transition, taking distribution issues into account - BuergEn
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2018 – 2021
City of the future: Climate-resilient urban-rural cooperation. Innovations of regional biomass production, circular economy and governance
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2017
Ukrainian Railways: Energy efficiency, energy policy and organisation
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2018 – 2019
Recycling in the age of digitalisation: Specific recycling targets for metals and plastics from small electrical appliances in the ElektroG: Regulatory approaches
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2016 – 2019
KliReX - Identifying and evaluating the greenhouse gas reduction potential of resource efficiency policies
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2017
Comparative economic and ecological evaluation of innovative, stationary energy storage technologies in industrial production
Health and well-being
Meeting structural challenges through active future design, transdisciplinary dialogue and transformation
Selected projects and publications
Projects
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2019 – 2020
Status and perspectives of telemedicine
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2016 – 2017
Quantified Self - between lifestyle and medicine
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2016 – 2017
Health apps
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2017 – 2019
LogMySelf - Opportunities, risks and future of lifelogging and self-measurement in discourse with young people
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2014 – 2016
New electronic media and addictive behaviour
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2017 – 2020
Norms in demographic change. Health and illness, solidarity and justice
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2020 – 2021
Crowd Process Audiovisual Storytelling on the Problematic Use of Electronic Media
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2021 – 2023
Crisis radar - Strengthening the resilience of society, politics and the economy through crisis prediction
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2022
Expertise on the establishment of an interdisciplinary and multigenerational competence centre for social digitalisation
Communication and publicity
The research field includes, in particular, investigations into how private individuals can be informed in a target group-related manner and motivated to discuss scientific and technological developments.
Selected projects and publications
Projects
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2018 – 2019
Evaluation of the BfS messages and texts from the area of electricity grid expansion
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2015 – 2016
Discourse ELSA: Young people and how they deal with ethical, legal and social issues of performance enhancement through brain doping
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2018 – 2020
BioDisKo-Bioeconomic Use Paths - Discourse and Communication
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2020 – 2023
Citizens' dialogue on nuclear energy (1974-1983) - State action in the debate on nuclear waste disposal and its significance for today's site selection procedure
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2019 – 2020
Possibilities of tailoring risk information in radiation protection to different target groups on the Internet
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2017 – 2019
Substitutes for food: technology assessment, sustainability, future orientation in discourse with young people
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2021 – 2022
Investigation into the usability of Citizen Science to obtain data on indoor radon concentrations
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2016 – 2017
Stakeholder surveys in the municipalities of the BMBF Energy Efficient City competition
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2016 – 2017
Handbook on the inter- and transdisciplinary integration of humanities, social and cultural sciences (GSK) in research projects at the Viennese Universities of Applied Sciences
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2015 – 2016
Discrimination risks in Germany related to boys and men, their prevalence and public perception as well as possible protection gaps
Mobility and urbanity
Embedded in social, economic, technical and regulatory developments, our mobility and transport system is experiencing an accelerated transformation process. The focus of this research field is on helping to shape this change in the sense of increasing resilience and social justice in the context of climate neutrality.
Selected projects and publications
Projects
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2021 – 2023
Crisis radar - Strengthening the resilience of society, politics and the economy through crisis prediction
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2021 – 2022
Henriette Kiez Cruiser
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2017 – 2022
Innovative Solutions in Future Stations, Energy Metering and Power Supply (In2Stempo)
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2021 – 2022
micromobility expo 2022
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2020 – 2022
DIGNITY - Digital Transport in and for Society
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2020 – 2021
Resilient mobility - approaches for a crisis-proof and social transport system
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2020 – 2021
Potential analysis in the innovation field "New Ways
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2020 – 2021
Public transport between the common good and commerce. Changing value creation structures through new mobility services
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2020
How COVID-19 working routines can save emission in a post-Covid-19 world. An estimate of the emission saving potentials through home-based telework
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2019 – 2020
micromobility expo digital 2020
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2019 – 2020
T4 For Under 2° - The Global Foresight Project on Transforming Mobility by Mid-Century
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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 – 2020
TRISTRAM - TRansItion STRategy on vegetAtion Management
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2019
Mobility services - employment, distribution effects, access opportunities
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2018 – 2019
Mobility as a Service in the Graz City Region
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2015 – 2018
Innovative Intelligent Rail - In2Rail
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2017
Ukrainian Railways: Energy efficiency, energy policy and organisation
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2016 – 2017
SUSTAIN - Best Practices, Benchmarking and Recommendations for Sustainable Stations
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2016
Environment and scenario analysis: The future of the global motorbike market in 2030
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2023 – 2026
Region as Campus | University network for practice-oriented research, teaching, knowledge & experience transfer in the Elbe Valley
Publications
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2023
Mobility justice as a guiding concept of transport policy
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2023
Henriette Kiez Cruiser
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2023
How COVID-19 working routines can save emissions in a post-COVID-19 world
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2023
Resilient mobility. Approaches for a crisis-resistant and social transport system
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2023
The impact of digital platforms on public transport. New strategies for the design of mobility.
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2023
Potential analysis in the innovation field "New Ways" for the joint project "Wendland-Elbe Valley - Sustainable Elbe Valley. New Work - New Paths - New Forms of Living".
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2023
The value of public transport between the common good and commerce
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2023
Sustainable data regulation for the Berlin transport sector
Resources, economies and resilience
Investigation of innovations and future markets for the success of a social-ecological transformation of the economy
Selected projects and publications
Projects
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2019 – 2024
Agro-Northwest. Experimental field for digital transformation in agricultural crop production
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2021 – 2023
Roadmap Future of Water Management
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2021 – 2023
Crisis radar - Strengthening the resilience of society, politics and the economy through crisis prediction
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2020 – 2021
Public transport between the common good and commerce. Changing value creation structures through new mobility services
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2020
CiBER: Circular City Berlin - Pathways from Potential to Implementation
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2019
Implementation concept for the establishment of a repair quality community in Berlin
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2019 – 2020
Ad papers and sustainability
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2021
bio:fictions. Co-creative design fictions of the bioeconomy with innovators, stakeholders and influencers
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2017
Comparative economic and ecological evaluation of innovative, stationary energy storage technologies in industrial production
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2015 – 2018
Evolution2Green - Transformation Pathways to the Green Economy: Shaping the Path Change
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2001 – 2002
Ecological optimisation of used appliances - Technical solutions for energy-efficient upgrading of used washing machines
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2015 – 2018
Peer-to-peer sharing - Internet-based business models for collaborative consumption as a contribution to sustainable economic activity
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2014 – 2017
Substitution as a strategy to reduce the criticality of raw materials for environmental technologies - potential identification for second-best solutions
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2018
Feasibility study on the establishment of a repair quality community in Berlin
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2016 – 2019
From pioneers to urban practice - potentials of communal living to solve demographic and social challenges. Laboratory City Potsdam
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2013 – 2016
Sustainability 2.0 - Modernisation approaches to the guiding principle of sustainable development
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2019
Economies of Transformation. Approaches to sustainable economic development
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2016 – 2019
KliReX - Identifying and evaluating the greenhouse gas reduction potential of resource efficiency policies
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2020
[bio'nd] Outlooks into biobased futures
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2020
Re-Use Berlin 2020: Actions and measures to strengthen the reuse of second-hand goods in Berlin
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2018 – 2021
Environmental opportunities and risks of digitalised services of general interest in suburbanised areas - A concept study using the example of the district of Wolfenbüttel
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2019
Re-Use Berlin 2019: Actions and measures to strengthen the reuse of second-hand goods in Berlin
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2023 – 2025
Rebound effects through digital services and products
Technology Assessment and Participation
By technology assessment we mean scientific and forward-looking studies that identify and assess potential technology impacts at an early stage.
Selected projects and publications
Projects
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2019 – 2020
Opportunities of digital administration
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2017
Risk Analysis Emergency Data Management (NFDM)
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2019 – 2020
Petitions to the German Bundestag - Awareness and use of the right to petition
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2019
Guidelines for humane work in the digital world
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2017 – 2019
Algorithms in digital media and their influence on opinion forming
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2014 – 2016
Online citizen participation in parliamentary work
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2016 – 2017
Health apps
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2017 – 2019
LogMySelf - Opportunities, risks and future of lifelogging and self-measurement in discourse with young people
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2014 – 2016
New electronic media and addictive behaviour
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2018 – 2019
Potential benefits of innovative and participatory methodological procedures for the German Bundestag
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2013 – 2022
Technology Assessment at the German Bundestag
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2021 – 2023
Crisis radar - Strengthening the resilience of society, politics and the economy through crisis prediction
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2016 – 2017
Quantified Self - between lifestyle and medicine
Futurology and Transformation
In a world increasingly characterised by complexities and uncertainties, orientation knowledge is needed, which is what futurology at the IZT provides.
Selected projects and publications
Projects
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2020 – 2022
DIGNITY - Digital Transport in and for Society
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2019
Dit is Berlin! The capital and its living conditions
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2015 – 2018
Evolution2Green - Transformation Pathways to the Green Economy: Shaping the Path Change
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2016
Environment and scenario analysis: The future of the global motorbike market in 2030
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2014 – 2016
Berlin Sustainability Profile
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2017 – 2018
NAT Thuringia
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2016 – 2019
MENARA - Middle East and North Africa Regional Architecture: mapping geopolitical shifts, regional order and domestic transformations
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2019 – 2020
T4 For Under 2° - The Global Foresight Project on Transforming Mobility by Mid-Century
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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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2018 – 2019
Study on the future of Human Machine Interfaces (HMI)
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2017
Future workshops at garden exhibition (IGA)
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2017 – 2018
HERBIE - Comparative Evaluation of Vegetation Control and Management Methods for European Railways
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2019
Mobility services - employment, distribution effects, access opportunities
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2017 – 2021
Trend radar resource policy: socio-economic and socio-cultural drivers of resource use and potentials of non-technical measures and instruments for resource conservation
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2016
Global trends and scenarios: Compass Agenda 2030. More Policies for Sustainable Development
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2015 – 2018
Innovative Intelligent Rail - In2Rail
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2020 – 2021
Resilient mobility - approaches for a crisis-proof and social transport system
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2022 – 2023
Scientific preparation and monitoring of four expert workshops on the topic of "mobility transition
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2023 – 2026
Region as Campus | University network for practice-oriented research, teaching, knowledge & experience transfer in the Elbe Valley
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2021
School of the Future - Futures of Education. Transformation processes at schools in Germany