Environmental Technologies and Sustainable Business

The role of climate protection and environmental technologies in providing solutions to the depletion of raw materials, climate change and increasing environmental burdens
Sustainable economic activity and innovative environmental and climate protection technologies can provide ways to help counteract the burden we have placed on our ecosystems and environment. Scare resources can be preserved and energy requirements can be minimised, thereby contributing to the fight against climate change and improving the competitiveness of the companies involved. In this way, innovative environmental technologies can deliver significant benefits for our environment, the economy and society.

Environmental innovations need funding and have the potential to create new markets. Our funding programme focuses on:

  • Sustainable climate and environmental protection technologies
  • Environmentally compatible bionic innovations
  • Innovation as a key to sustainability in the economy 
  • Lightweight products
  • Energy efficient technologies in chemistry
  • Use of CO2
  • International partnerships
  • Sustainable product management concepts
  • Innovative services
  • Products and production processes and operational management in various commercial sectors (metal production, plastics and rubber industry, ceramics industry and foundry industry, electronics and electrical engineering)

These sectors offer lucrative markets for German firms. As such, environmental technologies are an integral component of funding for research activities that fall within the category of "sustainable economies and resources".    

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Contact Persons

  • Dipl. Ing. Bernd Hartmann

    • Telephone: 0228 3821-1550
    • Email Address: Bernd.Hartmann@dlr.de

  • Dr. Peter Sliwka

    • Telephone: 0228 3821-1550
    • Email Address: Peter.Sliwka@dlr.de

  • Roland Keil

    • Telephone: 0228 3821-1573
    • Email Address: Roland.Keil@dlr.de

  • Dr. Oliver Scherr

    • Telephone: 0228 3821-1575
    • Email Address: Oliver Scherr

  • Dr. Tatjana Kiesow

    • Telephone: 0228 3821-1559
    • Email Address: Tatjana.Kiesow@dlr.de

  • Dr. Birgit Nabbefeld

    • Telephone: 0228 3821-1537
    • Email Address: Birgit.Nabbefeld@dlr.de

  • Dr. Olaf Pollmann

    • Telephone: 02208 3821-1535
    • Email Address: Olaf.Pollmann@dlr.de