Date: 24/09/2008 Time:
09:00 - 10:30 Location: Hall F.2
Target Audience: interested participants of the environmental innovation; representatives from ad-ministration, federations, economics, financial establishment, scientific institutions and small- and medium sized enterprises.
Objectives:
Integration of new
participants of the environmental innovations into the national ETAP network
identify priorities for common action
Format: Speeches; Open discussion Language:
German (English translation)
The Environmental Technologies Action Plan
(ETAP) is geared towards strengthening the market dynamics of environmental
protection and improving the competitiveness of European companies on the
global market. It contributes
to the Lisbon Strategy. In Germany, a
national ETAP network has been set up in order to improve information and
coordination of actions in line with the German ETAP Roadmap. A fundamental element of the ETAP Strategy is bridge building between
research and markets.
After an introduction of the ETAP process it
will be discussed how research results could be made marketable. As example of
successful collaboration between planning, research and technological
innovation the rehabilitation of open cast lignite mining sites in eastern
Germany - Europe’s largest landscaping work - will be presented.
One aim of the discussion will be to define which part new participants
can play in the ETAP national network.
Contribution of research to a competitive and sustainable Europe Environmental technologies achieve a three-time dividend
Unloading of the environment and avoidance of economical damages
Improvement of the economical structure and directing on future markets
Creating highly qualified jobs, based on knowledge and innovation ingniting sustainable employment activity
Research priority areas for the foreseeable future
There is a high priority on the range of the measures
The exchange of innovation-protagonists in the fields environment, research and economy has a top priority
The spectrum of the measures for providing of environment innovations ranges from financing instruments for market introduction, standardization, using governmental demand and informational instruments to “policy export” with the intention to promote “best practice” internationally
Other important issues or topics discussed during the session
Carbon Footprint - there is a requirement of 2.5 planets by transferring European lifestyle worldwide
increasing pressure in the sector of environmental politics
besides lifestyle questions the focus should be set on environmental technologies solutions
environmental innovations include product innovations as well as planning- and process innovations
Research for Sustainable Development - full paper (DIN-A4) - 68 pages (URL: http://www.fona.de/pdf/publikationen/research_for_sustainable_development.pdf)
Research for Sustainable Development - abstract (DIN-A5) - 20 pages (URL: http://www.fona.de/pdf/publikationen/research_for_sustainable_development_short.pdf)
Research for Sustainable Development
