Date: 24/09/2008 Time:
16:30 - 18:00 Location: Hall F.1
Target Audience: International audience from Industry, Politics and Administration, Science and Applied Research
Objectives:
Start of new initiatives,
description of the innovation potential of research for sustainability and ist transfer into practice,
need for action of politics, Science and Industry,
offers for cooperation.
Format: Presentations followed by discussion Language:
English
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.
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
