Completed Projects

IZNE offers consulting and support to its internal and external partners, and conducts its own projects on local, regional, national, and international level.

Improving PV yield prediction for storage control - a pilot project with rooftop systems (PV-Sp): In the feasibility study carried out in the PV-Sp project , it is examined whether a radiation map can be created that leads to an improvement in PV performance.
Alternative husbandry systems for more sustainability in pig meat production (ROIPORQ): The operational group "Roiporq" deals with sustainability along the "value chain pig" and bundles competences from practice and science.
Expansion of the electric mobility infrastructure: A study on the strategy for the expansion of the charging infrastructure for e-cars and e-two-wheelers. (Accompanying scientific research)
Bonn International Summer School on Responsible Business 2012 (BISS): The aim of the Summer School is to discuss challenges of the future together with CEOs of large and medium-sized internationally active companies and to strengthen responsibility in the corporate sector in the long term.
CSR communication put to the test: In the project, media-analytical methods, surveys and experiments were used to examine how consumer groups inform themselves about the topic of animal welfare and which arguments determine the discussion.
Efficient mobility: The aim of this project is to investigate the limits of efficient mobility.
e-H@C HUPAction: Pilot project on crisis management and communication.
ELaBoR: The aim of this project was to develop a strategy for the successive development of charging infrastructure for electric mobility in Bonn and the Rhein-Sieg district.
Energy Self-sufficiency for Health Facilities in Ghana (EnerSHelF_DEF): International partnerships for sustainable innovation: The main objectives of the project were to form a consortium of science and business partners.
Flasher: Development of a flasher for photovoltaics for direct location- and time-related yield measurement of photovoltaic modules.
Food-Protects: Material and energetic use of biomass by means of Hydrothermal Carbonization (HTC) and new fertiliser technologies. The research project provides a contribution on how previously poorly utilised or unused biomass material flows can be converted into high-quality products.
Food-Protects Knowledge Transfer: The activities of the Knowledge Transfer sub-project together form the backbone for a key objective of Food Pro-tec-ts: the transfer of knowledge to the region and the cross-border opening of markets.
Research and transfer network on sustainable public procurement in NRW: Public procurement offers the opportunity to consider environmentally friendly and fairly traded products in tenders.
Health and sustainable mobility in companies: As part of the funding measure "ZukunftsWerkStadt" in the Science Year 2012 - Future Project Earth, the IZNE developed and implemented a moderated communication and motivation process together with its project partners.
Global Partnership - North Rhine-Westphalia for International Sustainable Development: A series of events by the International Centre for Sustainable Development (IZNE), funded by the Ministry of Innovation, Science and Research of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (MIWF).
International policy learning and policy change: Scientific Inputs for the Dialogue on Social Protection with Global Partners.
Land use-related influence of aerosols on solar energy production: The PhD project of Ina Neher investigates the effects of aerosols on different radiation components and their effect on the yield of solar energy systems of different technology forms.
Local "assessment" of ecosystem services and biodiversity in the Bonn area: A pilot study of the Biodiversity Network Bonn (BION) for the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals.
Sustainability assessment of participatory production concepts and development of a qualitative assessment tool based on satisfaction: Managing sustainably, measuring this and communicating about it is becoming increasingly important - regardless of the size of a company or farm. The aim of the planned project is to assess the sustainability of participatory food production concepts in NRW using the Guidelines for Sustainability Assessment of Agriculture and Food Systems (SAFA Guidelines, FAO).
NutriHAF: NutriHAF is investigating possibilities for fruit and vegetable cultivation in agro-forestry systems, especially in areas with high biodiversity, in cooperation with smallholder farmers in Ethiopia and Madagascar.
Livestock strategy is to establish a long-term sustainable structure that meets the requirements of animal welfare and environmental justice, but also the business and social needs of livestock farms.
'One Health' I - Understanding metropolitan regions holistically: 'One Health' encompasses an integrative and an interdisciplinary perspective of health, recognising the links between humans, animals and the environment.
Indoor climate app: Development of a software tool to recommend individualised indoor climate settings using weather forecast data.
Restoration of the Fosu Lagoon in Cape Coast / Ghana: Together with the City of Bonn and the Cape Coast Metropolitan Assembly (CCMA), the IZNE is working on the restoration of the Fosu Lagoon in Cape Coast (West Africa).
Satellite and meteorology-assisted prediction of PV power generation at distribution grid level: development, validation, application (MetPVNet): Development of innovative satellite-based methods for improved PV yield prediction on different time scales for applications at distribution grid level.
Social and Health Policies for Inclusive Growth (SHPIG): Breaking the vicious circle between poverty and disease. Do cash transfers and social health protection measures complement each other in Ghana and Kenya?
Trilateral partnership with African universities: With Cape Coast University in Ghana and the University of Nairobi in Kenya, a trilateral academic alliance was initiated with a thematic focus on sustainable development. The starting point was the cooperation between the Institute for Development Studies (IDS) in Kenya, the institute of the same name in Ghana and the International Centre for Sustainable Development (IZNE) at Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences.
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News 05.03.2014
News 11.03.2014
News 12.06.2014

Study on a sustainable and resilient urban food system in the city of Cologne: stocktaking, problem analysis, further development for the Verbraucherzentrale NRW, Kompetenzzentrum Verbraucherforschung NRW.
Vehicle based photovoltaic system for energy efficiency and cost saving: An effective PV system for conventional buses and cars.