Session

B Hightech für Nachhaltigkeit - Kooperationen von Wissenschaft und Industrie

B4 Nachhaltigkeit und Forschung - Forschung und Industrie

zu den Session Ergebnissen

Datum: 24/09/2008
Zeit: 16:30 - 18:00
Ort: Hall F.1

Zielgruppe: Internationales Publikum aus Wirtschaft (Unternehmen, Verbände), Politik, Verwaltung, Wissenschaft und angewandte Forschung

Ziele:

Start neuer Initiativen, Aufzeigen des Innovationspotentials von Forschung für Nachhaltigkeit und Transfer in die Umsetzung, Formulierung von Handlungsbedarf für Politik, Wissenschaft und Wirtschaft, Angebote zur Vernetzung.

Format: Vorträge mit Diskussion
Sprache: Englisch

Sustainable production technologies will be one of the fastest growing branches of industry in the 21st century and will be one of the major export sectors of Germany and the European Union. Therefore, the European Union will soon release its Action Plan „Towards a Sustainable Industry Policy“ and a complementary Action Plan on Sustainable Consumption and Production will also be issued turning current environmental challenge into innovation and sustainable economic opportunities for the EU.

To take this forward and as a follow-up of the 4th FONA Conference 2007, the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft as the leading organisation for applied research in Europe has recently set up a working group on “Sustainability and Research” to develop and implement indicators and criteria to arrive at a quality label “Sustainable technologies and products created with Fraunhofer” to help improving the competitiveness of industrial partners while raising their environmental performance.

This session will focus on innovation and sustainability in production engineering addressed by the European Technology Platform MANUFUTURE comprising more than 30 industrial sectors, on novel bionic polymeric materials helping industry to increase life time of equipment and materials, on up scaling of an eco efficient solar technology for SMEs and on resource efficient production of polyurethane foams from renewables and by using environmentally friendly processes. The session will start with an invited lecture about the commitment of Fraunhofer to sustainable development and how and in which fields Fraunhofer contributes to develop sustainable technologies and transfer into industry. 

Session Chair

Leissner, Johanna
Fraunhofer Brüssel, Belgien
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Beiträge

”Sustainable Technologies created with Fraunhofer™” – an initiative of Fraunhofer
Hirth, Thomas
Fraunhofer Institut für Grenzflächen- und Bioverfahrenstechnik, Stuttgart, Deutschland

Dye Solar Cells - Up scaling of an eco efficient solar technology for SMEs
Lang - Koetz, Claus
Fraunhofer Institut für Arbeitswirtschaft und Organisation, Stuttgart, Deutschland
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Self healing polymers based on novel biomimetic materials
Nellesen, Anke
Fraunhofer Institut für Umwelt-, Sicherheits- und Energietechnik, Oberhausen, Deutschland
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Sustainable production technologies and the European Manufuture Technology Platform
Stender, Siegfried
Fraunhofer Institut für Produktionstechnik und Automatisierung und Universität Stuttgart, Germany
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Resource efficient production of polyurethane foams from renewables and by using environmentally friendly processes
Woidasky, Jörg
Fraunhofer Institut für Chemische Technologie, Pfinztal, Deutschland

Session Ergebnisse

Contribution of research to a competitive and sustainable Europe

• Development of sustainable methodologies, products, processes and technologies which are just before market implementation
• The cooperation with industry and SMEs is the main driver to implement the research results

Research priority areas for the foreseeable future

• Energy storage
• Sustainable production processes
• More interdisciplinary and cross domain research
• Adaptation to climate change
• Better enhance cooperation between basic and applied research

Other important issues or topics discussed during the session

• Cooperation with industry

Organisation

Dr. Johanna Leissner
Fraunhofer Brüssel
Rue du Commerce 31
1000 Brüssel
Tel.: (32) 02 506 42 43
Fax: (32) 02 506 42 49
Johanna.leissner@zv.fraunhofer.de