IN-SOURCE
CONSORTIUM
The IN-SOURCE project's consortium includes the following partners:
GERMAN PARTNERS*
University of Applied Sciences Stuttgart (HFT)
Center for sustainable energy technology research
Centre for Sustainable Energy Technology (zafh.net)
Ten billion gigawatt hours – that is the amount of energy that Europe consumes each year. The operation of buildings alone counts for 44 per cent of this energy consumption.
This fact is the reason behind the drive of the “Centre for Applied Research at Universities of Applied Sciences – Sustainable Energy Technology (zafh.net)” to concentrate on in-depth building energy research as well as on the development of integrated energy concepts for buildings and regions. Their goal is to find economical and energy-efficient solutions and to make these solutions available for use in a way that is practical and integrative.
Interdisciplinary research and development in this field of study is the central goal of the Research Centre for Sustainable Energy Technology at the Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences (zafh.net).
For more information, please visit: http://www.zafh.net
Ursula Pietzch (Project Manager) | Email: ursula.pietzsch@hft-stuttgart.de
Prof. Dr. Volker Coors | Email: Volker.Coors@hft-stuttgart.de
Landratsamt Ludwigsburg, Department 22 Environment & Climate Protection (LKR)
The Landkreis Ludwigsburg is a district, comparable to an English or American County with an own local council and government administration. The Landratsamt is the county’s administrative unit, Department 22 Environment deals with all legal and technical issues related to water, soil and air and is mainly concerned with regulatory tasks that have a regional or environmental relevance. These include topics like waste, soil protection and contaminated sites, sewage, groundwater and surface water, nature and species protection, landscape care and climate protection.
AH Consult, Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Alfred Helble
Center for sustainable energy technology research
AH Consult offers
services in the following areas with emphasis in the pulp and paper industry:
Concepts for the effluent treatment and advanced effluent treatment
Water circuit optimisation and internal prevention measures
Technical environment protection and risk analyses
Charges for Wastewater Discharge and formal applications
Monitoring of execution and project management
Environmental management systems
In house seminars for companies
Further information regarding our services can be found under the Title Activity Profile.
For more information, please visit http://www.ah-consult.com/en/
Contact: Alfred Helble, Dipl.-Ing. (FH) | Email: ah@ah-consult.com
*Main Applicant of the IN-SOURCE project
AUSTRIAN PARTNERS
AIT - Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH
The AIT Austrian Institute of Technology is Austria’s largest non-university research institution with more than 1,260 employees. With its eight Centers, AIT regards itself as a highly specialized research and development partner for industry and concerns itself with the key infrastructure topics of the future.
CENTER FOR ENERGY
The AIT Center for Energy is developing solutions designed to ensure a sustainable energy supply for the future.
More than 220 employees investigate in solutions for sustainable energy supply at the AIT Center for Energy with Wolfgang Hribernik being the Head of Center. Many years of experience and scientific excellence as well as high quality laboratory infrastructure and a global network are being offered to businesses and applied research services, which guarantees a clear competitive advantage in future markets. The Center for Energy structures its theme portfolio according to three central systems: Sustainable energy infrastructure, decarbonisation of industrial processes and facilities as well as innovative technologies and solutions for urban transformation (buildings, cities).
https://www.ait.ac.at/en/about-the-ait/center/center-for-energy/
DIGITAL RESILIENT CITIES UNIT (DRC)
The DRC unit within the Center for Energy is an independent, urban know-how partner that develops cutting-edge urban management and planning solutions. By embracing today’s complexities, we’re pioneering new ways to plan and realise the sustainable, smart and resilient habitats of tomorrow.
Our approach is our differentiator. We combine innovative processes with the latest digital planning tools using big data and Artificial Intelligence (AI). Transcending the boundaries of traditional disciplines and enhancing our services with scientific innovations, we formulate and answer questions today about the urban tasks and challenges of tomorrow.
Our extensive experience enables us to craft unconventional solutions in a collaborative way to meet the specific needs of private businesses and public institutions worldwide.
In addition to high-level research, consulting and capacity building services, we provide our clients with a global knowledge network and access to selected expert communities.
https://www.ait.ac.at/en/research-topics/digital-resilient-cities/
Dr. Ernst Gebetsroither- Geringer | Email: Ernst.Gebetsroither@ait.ac.at
University of Natural Resources & Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU)
Department of Economics and Social Sciences (WiSo)
Institute of Social Ecology (SEC)
The Institute of Social Ecology Vienna (SEC) is part of the Department of Economics and Social Sciences (WiSo) at University of Natural Resources & Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU). Three professors span the triangle between natural and social sciences and the humanities: Verena Winiwarter holds a chair in Environmental History, Christoph Görg in Social Ecology and Fridolin Krausmann in Sustainable Resource Use.
Research and teaching at the Institute of Social Ecology deals with the interrelationship of social and natural systems in the context of sustainable development. Research is structured into five main fields (i) Social Metabolism, (ii) Land Use and Colonization of Ecosystems, (iii) Long-term Socio-ecological Research and Environmental History, (iv) Social-Ecological Transformations and (v) Integrated Socio-Ecological Modelling. It approaches contemporary environmental problems and looks for their systemic and historical causes in society-nature interaction. The institute’s staff comprises 25 researchers and 6 administrative staff members as well as a number of PhD students. Researchers come from interdisciplinary backgrounds such as biology, ecology, sociology, anthropology, political and technical sciences.
We aim to describe the interaction between social and natural systems, which we see as co-evolutionary, in scientifically sound theoretical and methodological terms. The two concepts of social metabolism and the colonization of natural systems constitute the core of our socio-ecological theory. These concepts draw from quite differing scientific traditions - biology, sociology, political sciences, economics, technical sciences, history, geography and cultural anthropology - and offer a coherent perspective on the society-nature relationship. This perspective guides us conceptually and practically in developing information systems for the environmental consequences of human activity ("pressures upon the environment"). It also orients us in our research on ecological and socio-economic aspects of sustainable development at the local, national and global levels and the analysis of socio-ecological transformations.
For more information: https://boku.ac.at/en/wiso/sec/
Dr. Barbara Smetschka, barbara.smetschka@boku.ac.at
Austrian Funders
UNITED STATES (US) PARTNERS
City University of New York – CUNY
CUNY Institute of Urban Systems (CIUS) and CUNY Energy Institute
CIUS seeks to help cities adapt to their changing infrastructure needs through research, education, policy advisement, and advancement of the state of professional practice. CIUS aims to bring together leading scholars and practitioners to help catalyze innovation at public agencies in the planning and management of urban infrastructure systems. CIUS promotes interdisciplinary and inter-campus collaboration across the entire CUNY system on infrastructure education and research to address environmental, economic, and technological challenges. It also aims to serve public agencies by leveraging CUNY’s unique array of research and technology transfer capabilities.
For more information, please visit: http://cunyurbansystems.org/
Prof. Ahmed Mohamed, PhD | Email: amohamed@ccny.cuny.edu
New York Institute of Technology (NYIT)
Explore New York Institute of Technology—a dynamic, highly ranked, and accredited not-for-profit university committed to educating the next generation of leaders, and to inspiring innovation and advancing entrepreneurship.
Our 9,000 students representing nearly all 50 states and 100 countries at campuses around the world become engaged, technologically savvy physicians, architects, scientists, engineers, business leaders, digital artists, health care professionals, and more.
For more information, please visit: http://www.nyit.edu
Prof. Ziqian Dong, PhD | Email: Ziqian.Dong@nyit.edu
A detail list of all team members of each partner is listed on the respective Cities pages.
ADDITIONAL PARTNERS
Canada Excellence Research in Smart, Sustainable and Resilient Cities and Communities
Launched in 2008, the Canada Excellence Research Chairs (CERC) program supports Canadian universities in their efforts to build on Canada's growing reputation as a global leader in research and innovation. The CERC awards are among the most prestigious and generous available globally.
Concordia is one of only 9 Canadian institutions to advance in the CERC competition in the current funding year.
The research and training activities of the CERC within Concordia’s new ‘Smart Cities’ cluster will be organized around four interrelated axes:
Clean energy systems for the built environment
Integrated built environment design
Smart technologies and optimized community operation
Collaborative community, knowledge mobilization and policies
For more information, please click here.