The institute’s systemic orientation is reflected in its different research departments which address aspects referring to the energy transition, climate protection and climate impact, resource conservation, land use, and local and regional development.
Sustainable solution models with the knowledge of interactions between technology, material flows, environmental protection and nature conservation, economics, people and the diversity of living environments are becoming increasingly important. The institute primarily embeds solution models based on the concept of a sustainable economic, that has an impact on the ecological, economic and socio-cultural dimensions.
Current and future research projects contribute to this objective. These goals are also anchored in the updated mission statement which was developed together with the employees.
The challenge of the solution models is their multidimensionality in order to establish the right connections from the associated data and information, structure them and prepare them in a way that is understandable for different stakeholders. This is why the Transformation Knowledge Research Group was created. Its underlying interest is researching and applying approaches and methods for recording, analysing and presenting as well as designing and developing tools for transformation knowledge in the energy and material flow transition. Furthermore the research group works together in an integrative manner with the other departments and supports them in recording, processing, analysis, visualisation and modelling of data.
The respective thematic research focus, the specific research approaches and the associated challenges are presented on the pages of the different departments.