Funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the Federal State of Brandenburg, the IASS aims to identify and promote development pathways for a global transformation towards a sustainable society. The IASS employs a transdisciplinary approach that encourages dialogue to understand sustainability issues and generate potential solutions in cooperation with partners from the sciences, politics, the economy, and civil society. A strong network of national and international partners supports the work of the institute.
The Global Climate Forum is a non-profit association of research institutes, think tanks, companies, NGOs and individual researchers that together initiate and perform innovative research on climate change and related global challenges. Our aim thereby is not necessarily to reach a consensus, but to develop a variety of well-considered opinions. The forum thus cultivates a pluralistic exchange in which different points of view are freely expressed and debated, on a basis of mutual respect.
UNIVE has an outstanding international reputation for excellence in teaching and research. Advanced research is developed in 8 departments and 20 interdisciplinary centers among which is the European Centre for Living Technology (ECLT, www.ecltech.org). ECLT is dedicated to the study and creation of a new science associated with technologies which exhibit life-like characteristics, such as self-organization, adaptability, capacity to evolve and react to environmental stimuli, etc.
The University of Oxford’s Environmental Change Institute, part of the School of Geography and the Environment, pioneers a distinctive programme spanning from interdisciplinary scientific research toward understanding environmental change and its impacts to sustainable solutions for decision-makers responding to the convergent and interacting combination of systemic challenges posed by social-environmental change.
E3-Modelling (E3M) is a knowledge-based company created as a spin-off of modelling and economic research performed over many years in E3MLab. E3-Modelling is specialized in the development of complex models and carries out impact assessment studies focusing in the fields of economy, energy and the environment as well as markets, for 36 countries in Europe, G-20, MENA countries, the Russian Federation and the emerging economies globally.
Deltares is an independent institute for applied research in the field of water, subsurface and infrastructure with areas of expertise in flood risk and adaptive planning. Throughout the world, Deltares works on smart solutions, innovations and applications for people, environment and society. The primary task of Deltares is bringing together science and application: translating scientific knowledge into innovative solutions needed in sustainable (clean and safe) development of deltas.