The reflexion meeting of the SuMo-Rhine project took place from November 28th to 29th. The co-financing partners, DFIU, KIT-ECON, Universität of Freiburg, Universität of Koblenz- Landau, Université de Haute-Alsace, Université de Strasbourg and CNRS, created a work plan to build the framework of the indicators system.

Im Rahmen des Projektes „Upper Rhine Cluster for Sustainability Research“  bietet das DFIU einen Themenabend zum „Kohleausstieg“ an. Anhand von drei Impulsvorträgen aus Wissenschaft, Wirtschaft und Politik wird das Thema aus verschiedenen Blickpunkten beleuchtet und im Anschluss im Plenum diskutiert. Die Veranstaltung ist öffentlich für alle Interessierten. Das Veranstaltungsplakat finden Sie hier.
Referenten:
- Dr. Massimo Genoese, Ministerium für Umwelt, Klima und Energiewirtschaft Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart
- Dr. Clemens Cremer, Konzernexperte Energiewirtschaft und Energiemärkte, EnBW AG
- Dr. Dogan Keles, Leiter der Forschungsgruppe Energiemärkte und Energiesystemanalyse, Institut für Industriebetriebslehre und Industrielle Produktion (IIP), Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
Veranstaltungsort:
Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
Campus Süd, Gebäude 20.30
Kollegiengebäude Mathematik,
Seminarraum 0.014
Englerstr. 2, 76131 Karlsruhe

The “Frankreich-Konzeption” is intended to give new impulse to the cooperation between Baden-Württemberg and France in a targeted manner. As part of a conceptual process, the State Ministry of Baden-Württemberg, together with German and French actors, intends to explore how Baden-Württemberg's cooperation with France could be further improved and deepened in the future. The DFIU attended the workshop on "Transport and Mobility" on 14 May 2018.

Das DFIU betreut eine Praktikantin von der École des Mines d'Albi von Mai bis September 2018.

The DFIU has supervised a master thesis from October 2017 to June 2018 with CNRS Reactions and Process Engineering Laboratory on the issue "Techno-economic assessment of biogas production with integration of material and energy flows based on ADM1".

NovaTris, the cross-border competence centre of the University of Haute-Alsace, is conducting a survey on the accelerators and barriers to the meeting in a trinational context. DFIU participated in a collective interview on June 27th, 2018 to gather opinions, proposals and expectations related to the subject.

The DFIU participated in the transfer workshop "Regional Solutions for a Secure and Sustainable Energy System in the Upper Rhine Region" on 20 June 2018. The DFIU presented its work in a presentation entitled "Decarbonization of the Energy system through the increased use of renewable electricity - Impacts on security of supply in Southern Germany".

The European Union is supporting the project "SuMo-Rhine – Sustainable Mobility in the Upper-Rhine Region" with a total of 1.36 million euros from the European Regional Development Fund. The decision on the allocation of the funds was taken on June, 14th at the meeting of the European INTERREG programme in Neustadt an der Weinstraße. DFIU coordinates the project (duration: 1.7.2018 to 30.6.2021). The project consortium consists of the Institute of Economics (KIT-ECON), the University of Freiburg, the European College for Human Ecology, the University of Koblenz-Landau, the University of Strasbourg, the CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), the University of Colmar-Mulhouse (UHA), the Strasbourg School of Architecture and the City of Lörrach.

In the week from 18.6. - 22.6. the SERIOR Graduate Academy Summer School will take place in Goersdorf in France according to the motto "Risk Without Borders". On Thursday, June 21, Dr. Marcus Wiens, in cooperation with Prof. Eva Louvet and Dr. Florence Spitzenstetter (both Faculty of Psychology at the University of Strasbourg), will conduct an interactive teaching unit on the topic "Risk and social comparison - experimental research in psychology and economics".