Research at the chair also is conducted within the framework of various externally funded projects. Here you can find an overview of ongoing and completed projects.
Externally Funded Projects
| GiVEn - Just interregional distribution of costs and benefits of the energy transition - Concepts, impacts and implementation options for the expansion of energy infrastructure | |
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| Funding | BMWK |
| Cooperation | Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ; |
| Duration | until 2025 |
| Status | running |
| Link | Projekt page |
| GONASIP - Governing multi-scale heterogenities to activate natural carbon sink potentials | |
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| Funding | BMBF |
| Cooperation | Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ; Leibnitz-Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF) e.V.; ZEW - Centre for European Economic Research |
| Duration | until 2025 |
| Status | running |
| Link | Projekt page |
Junior Research Group "Sustainable Deployment of Renewable Energies with Multiple Environmental Impacts - Policy Strategies to mitigate Ecological Trade-offs of the Energy Transition" | |
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| Funding | BMBF |
| Cooperation | Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ; CoKnow Consulting |
| Duration | until 2022 |
| Status | running |
| Link | Project page |
| Integrated Analysis of Freshwater Resources Sustainability in Jordan | |
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| Funding | DFG |
| Cooperation | Stanford University (USA); University College London (UK); Université Laval, Québec (Canada); King's College, London (UK); University of Jordan, Amman (Jordan); Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ |
| Duration | until 2017 |
| Status | running |
| Link | Projektseite Freshwater Resources in Jordan |
Helmholtz-Alliance ENERGY-TRANS "Future infrastructures for meeting energy demands towards sustainability and social compatibility" | |
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| Funding | Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres |
| Cooperation | Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Forschungszentrum Jülich (FZJ), German aerospace center (DLR), University of Stuttgart, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, Freie Universität Berlin, Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) |
| Duration | until 2015 |
| Status | running |
| Link | Project page ENERGY-TRANS |
Excellence Cluster "BioEconomy" | |
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| Funding | Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) |
| Cooperation | Research association of Fraunhofer institutes, Helmholtz Centres, universities and industry |
| Runtime | 2012-2017 |
| Status | running |
| Link | Project page BioEconomy |
| Development of the energy and electricity tax legislation in the interest of the extension of renewable energies and the further implementation of the 'energy transition' (Energiewende) | |
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| Funding | Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU) |
| Cooperation | Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ; Agnes Behm, Institute for Climate Protection, Energy and Mobility (IKEM), Berlin |
| Duration | until 2015 |
| Status | running |
| Link | Project page (in German) |
| Sustainable consumption: Strengthening sustainable consumption in the area of product use by making adjustments to civil and public law | |
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| Funding | Umweltbundesamt |
| Cooperation | Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Leipzig; Prof. Schlacke, Münster University; Institute for Environmental and Planning Law (IUP); Prof. Tonner |
| Duration | until 2015 |
| Status | running |
| Junior Research Group "RegAWa – local adjustments to global transformation – Economic instruments for ensuring sustainability" | |
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| Funding | SAB (Saxony) |
| Cooperation | Prof. Holländer, IIRM, Leipzig University; Prof. Bruckner, IIRM, Leipzig University; Prof. Ringel, ISB, Leipzig University; HTWK, Leipzig |
| Duration | until 2014 |
| Status | running |
| Portfolio Topics 'Local Climate Change: Causes and consequences' and 'Sustainable biobased economy' | |
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| Funding | Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ |
| Duration | until 2015 |
| Status | running |
| Systems of biomass and bioenergy | |
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| Funding | Initiative and Networking Fund of the president of the Helmholtz Association |
| Cooperation | Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ |
| Duration | until 2014 |
| Status | running |
| Link | Department Bioenergy, UFZ |
| Practical design of a wastewater levy to be further developed and possible contents of a regulation | |
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| Funding | Umweltbundesamt |
| Cooperation | Prof. Holländer, IIRM, Leipzig University |
| Duration | March/2012-2014 |
| Status | running |
| Link | Project page wastewater fee |
| HIGRADE Doktoranden-Stipendium: Water Pricing Strategies in an IWSM Framework | |
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| Funding | Helmholtz Association HIGRADE-Programme |
| Cooperation | Prof. Holländer, IIRM, Leipzig University |
| Duration | until 2013 |
| Status | completed |
| Link | HIGRADE Homepage |
| Infrawass - Sustainability institutions for the governance of long-lived technical infrastructure systems using the example of European water supply and wastewater disposal under the conditions of climatic and demographic change | |
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| Funding | BMBF |
| Cooperation | Prof. Holländer, IIRM, Leipzig University, Prof. Laskowski, Universität Kassel |
| Duration | until 2013 |
| Status | completed |
| Link | Projektseite Infrawass |
| Publications | Projektseite Infrawass |
| Further development of wastewater charges and water extraction fees to a comprehensive water use charge | |
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| Client | Federal Office for the Environment |
| Cooperation | Prof. Holländer, IIRM, Leipzig University |
| Duration | 2009 - 2011 |
| Status | completed |
| Link | Water use charges project website |
| Publications | Water use charges project website |
| Evaluation of the climate protection mitigation plan in the federal state of Hessen | |
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| Client | Hessen Ministry for the Environment, Energy, Agriculture and Transport (HMUELV) |
| Cooperation | Prof. Hansjürgens, UFZ |
| Duration | 2009 - 2011 |
| Status | completed |
| Basic prices for drinking water charges | |
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| Client | Residential building cooperative "City of Cottbus" registered association |
| Duration | 2009 |
| Status | completed |
| Publications | Gawel, E.: Grundgebühren und Grundpreise beim Trinkwassertarif. Probleme der Bemessung nach Wohneinheiten (Basic charges and prices for drinking water tariffs. Problems of calculation according to housing units), in: Der Gemeindehaushalt, 111. Jg. (2010), S. 73-82. |
| Perspectives of economic research on climate change | |
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| Client | Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) |
| Duration | 2009 |
| Status | completed |