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Completed Research Projects

BioMANik

Market actor networks and market dynamics in bioeconomic value chains

  • Project management: Prof. Dr. Heiner Schanz
  • Project staff: Marzena Wilczynski, Julia Federer
  • Duration: 01/2017 – 03/2020
  • Funding: Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) in the funding priority “Bioeconomy as societal change”
  • Results of the project:
    • Wilczynski, M., & Schanz, H. (2021). The role of market perceptions in bridging the innovation gap of bio-based markets: The example of Biomass-to-Liquid in Germany. Journal of Cleaner Production, 125926. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.125926
    • Schanz, H., Federer, J., & Wilczynski, M. (2019). Markets as leverage points for transformations of economic systems: The example of the German bioeconomy. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 33, 140-161. doi: 10.1016/j.eist.2019.04.003
    • Schanz, H., Wilczynski, M., & Federer, J. (2020). BMBF-Projektabschlussbericht BioMANiK.

KERNiG

Municipal food systems as the key to comprehensive, integrated sustainability governance

  • Project management: Prof. Dr. Heiner Schanz
  • Project coordination: Jana Baldy, David Sipple
  • Duration: 10/2016 – 03/2020
  • Funding: Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) in the funding priority “Social-Ecological Research” (SÖF)
  • Cooperation partners: University of Freiburg (Professorship for Sustainability Governance, Professorship for Environmental Governance, Professorship for Forest and Environmental Policy), University of Kassel (Center for Environmental System Research), Zeppelin University (Research Center for Consumers, Markets and Policy), NAHhaft Berlin, City of Leutkirch im Allgäu, City of Waldkirch, FiBL Research Institute of Organic Agriculture
  • Results:
    • Schanz, H., Pregernig, M., Baldy, J., Sipple, D., & Kruse, S. (Eds.). (2020). Kommunen gestalten Ernährung – Neue Handlungsfelder nachhaltiger Stadtentwicklung (Vol. Nr. 153). Berlin: Deutscher Städte- und Gemeindebund. doi: 10.6094/UNIFR/154838
    • Sipple, D., & Schanz, H. (2019). Nachhaltige Stadtentwicklung über kommunale Ernährungssysteme: Marktakteursnetzwerke als Ansatzpunkte zur Gestaltung und Steuerung. Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsgeographie, 63(1), 1-22. https://www.degruyter.com/view/journals/zfw/63/1/article-p1.xml
    • Schanz, H., Sipple, D. & Baldy, J. (2020). BMBF-Projektabschlussbericht KERNiG.
    • Sipple, D., & Schanz, H. (2021). Hebelpunkte lokaler Ökonomien. Der Betrieberückgang im lokalen Lebensmittelhandwerk aus systemischer Perspektive. Raumforschung Und Raumordnung | Spatial Research and Planning, 79(1), 58-72. doi: 10.14512/rur.33

Integration of municipal food systems into market networks

  • Project management: Prof. Dr. Heiner Schanz
  • Project collaborator: David Sipple
  • Duration: 10/2016 – 03/2020
  • Funding: Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) in the funding priority “Social-Ecological Research” (SÖF)
  • Sub-project “Policy-market-knowledge as central integration dimensions of governance in municipal food systems” together with the Chair of Sustainability Governance and the Chair of Forest and Environmental Policy within the framework of “KERNiG – Municipal food systems as the key to comprehensive-integrative sustainability governance”
  • Results:
    • Sipple, D. & Schanz, H. (2021): Hebelpunkte lokaler Ökonomien. Der Betrieberückgang im lokalen Lebensmittelhandwerk aus systemischer Perspektive. Raumforschung Und Raumordnung | Spatial Research and Planning. doi: 10.14512/rur.33
    • Sipple, D., & Schanz, H. (2019). Nachhaltige Stadtentwicklung über kommunale Ernährungssysteme: Marktakteursnetzwerke als Ansatzpunkte zur Gestaltung und Steuerung. Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsgeographie, 63(1), 1-22. doi: 10.1515/zfw-2018-0024

Explorative study “Women in agriculture in Baden-Württemberg today”

(as part of the research project “Dynamics of the sustainable development of rural areas”)

  • Project management: Prof. Dr. Heiner Schanz
  • Project staff: Katja Baur, Beatrice Biro
  • Duration: 10/2017 – 09/2018
  • Funding: Ministry for Rural Areas and Consumer Protection Baden-Württemberg
  • Results:
    • Schanz, H., Baur, K., & Biro, B. (2018). Women in Agriculture – Results of an explorative online survey on the current situation of women in agriculture in Baden-Württemberg (Research Report 11-2018, Volumes I and II). Freiburg: Institute for Environmental Social Sciences and Geography, University of Freiburg. 571 p. doi:10.6094/UNIFR/16804

ZKJ-N!

Sustainability roadmap for the clinic of the future

  • Project management: Prof. Dr. Heiner Schanz
  • Project coordination: Marzena Wilczynski, Julia Federer
  • Duration: 02/2017 – 11/2017
  • Funding: Initiative for our Children’s and Youth Clinic Freiburg e.V.
  • Results:
    • Bonneau, A., Wilczynski, M., Federer, J., & Schanz, H. (2018). “Knowing the facility first” – Analysing envi-ronmentally relevant structures and processes in hospitals: A case study. Journal of Hospital Administration, 7(5), 28-40. doi: 10.5430/jha.v7n5p28

HyCO2

The hydrogenation of CO2 to liquid fuels as a basic technology for the chemical storage of fluctuating renewable energies (associated)

  • Project management: Dr. Chantal Ruppert-Winkel
  • Funding: Sustainability Center of the Fraunhofer Society and the University of Freiburg.
  • Cooperation partners: Center for Renewable Energies (ZEE) and Institute for Anorg. and Analyt. Chemistry at the University of Freiburg, Fraunhofer ISE and Fraunhofer IWM. ZEE: Accompanying social science research (in particular: Determination of possible areas of social conflict and social evaluation of different utilization paths for liquid energy sources and the conversion/utilization of CO2 or the processes developed by the project)

SoNaTe

Social Neighborhood and Technology (associated)

  • Sub-project management: Value creation analysis, business and organizational model development:
  • Simon Funcke and Dr. Chantal Ruppert-Winkel
  • Funding: Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), as part of the “Innovations for municipalities and regions in demographic change” (InnovaKomm) call for proposals
  • Cooperation partners: Center for Renewable Energies (ZEE), Institute for Microsystems Technology (IMTEK), Institute for Information Technology and Society (IIG) and Chair of Computer Networks and Telematics at the University of Freiburg;Bauverein Breisgau eG, Freiburg;FIVE – Innovation and Research Network at the Protestant University of Applied Sciences Freiburg e.V.; Freie Liegenschaftsverwaltung GmbH, Balingen; ITstrategen GmbH, Karlsruhe; SPES e.V., Freiburg; City of Bühl; City of Freiburg im Breisgau; Telocate GmbH, Freiburg; ZTM Bad Kissingen GmbH, Bad Kissingen; ZEE, sub-project management: value creation analysis, business and organizational model development

Regio TransKMU

Regional transformation through socio-ecologically active companies (associated)

  • Project management: Dr. Chantal Ruppert-Winkel
  • Funding: Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) in the funding priority “Social-ecological research” (SÖF)
  • Cooperation partners: Center for Renewable Energies (ZEE) at the University of Freiburg, Öko-Institut e.V. and the Office for Climate Protection and Sustainability of the District of Steinfurt. ZEE: Overall project management and processing of sub-project 1: Regional value creation through social and ecological action by SMEs: skilled workers, market partners and customers

Doctoral program “Decentralized sustainable energy systems” (associated)

  • Project management: Dr. Chantal Ruppert-Winkel
  • University of Freiburg and Offenburg University of Applied Sciences in cooperation with the Fraunhofer Institutes ISE and IPM at the Center for Renewable Energies at the University of Freiburg. Interdisciplinary doctoral program with 12 scholarships.
  • Funding: Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts. ZEE: Supervision of a doctoral thesis