Projects

EUFORIE

The EUFORIE (European Futures of Energy Efficiency) project responds to the EU Horizon2020 programme, call identifier H2020-EE-2014-2-RIA and to topic EE-12-2014, Socio-economic research on energy...

Consumption in Europe

In recent years, the environmental impacts of consumption have received an increasing amount of attention, in particular in the international discussions of sustainable development. But what...

Globalization and Consumption

That globalisation influence our consumption - nearly in every country - is a common place. But which determinants are in charge here? Sustainable consumption and globalisation literature seem to...

SCOPE²

The quest for making consumption and production patterns more sustainable has already a long history. From extensive insight on Integrated Product Policy, Sustainable Consumption and Sustainable...

FIN-MIPS

MIPS, the Material input per unit of service, is a concept which can be used to measure eco-efficiency of a product or service. Generally it can be applied on all scales from a single product to...

Household Energy and Water Consumption

Shifting the focus of concern from the reduction of emissions to resource consumption, from industrial chimneys towards the sales point, is as well changing the role of households from being a victim...

ALARM

Assessing large scale environmental risks for biodiversity with tested methods ALARM is essentially a project to improve the instruments for assessing the threat to and the loss of biodiversity in...

A sustainable development project for Luxembourg

The Luxembourg government in 2007 decided to develop a now and effective national sustainability strategy ; SERI Germany has been coaching the process ever since. In Spring 2009 the new strategy was...

Action Town

The Action Town project focuses on concrete actions by creating partnerships between civil society organisations (CSO) and research organisations. It looks into how CSOs can provide new insights for...

EJOLT

EJOLT is a large collaborative project bringing science and society together to catalogue ecological distribution conflicts and work towards confronting environmental injustice. As global consumption...