全球智库信息集成服务系统

The efficient use of raw materials is becoming more and more important, both economically and ecologically. In order to accommodate this significance, the transfer project aims at strengthening innovative powers by integrating and connecting similar professional Institutes, both within and outside the Fraunhofer compound. The r² Event Series supported this network on a personal and professional level. The Ecologic Institute contributed to the project through the organization of the following events:

• r² Kick-off Conference
  Innovative Technologies for the Efficient Use of Resources - Resource-Intensive Production Processes
  Bonn, 23 June 2009
   
• r² Workshop
  Sustainability Review
  Karlsruhe, 24-25 November 2009
   
• first r² status seminar
  Berlin, 4 November 2010
   
• r² Workshop
  Innovative Technologies and Services: Increasing Resource Efficiency through Integrated Product-Service Systems
  Frankfurt, 11 May 2011
   
• second r² status seminar
  Berlin, 26-27 October 2011

Background

The project "r²" aims at supporting the goal of the German national sustainability strategy to double Germany’s productivity regarding the use of energy and raw materials between 1994 and 2020. Strengthening and promoting innovations in the area of resource efficiency in commodity-intensive sectors are means of implementation. In this context, the Fraunhofer-Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI is heading an integration and transfer project with the purpose of linking and integrating related and secondary research.