Schlagwort: Environment
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Co-operative grocery shops – a different way of shopping
Strengthening sustainable trade structures: JLU research project WERTSCHÄTZEN represented at the Darmstadt Transformation Days Giessen/Germany, March 10, 2025. Cooperative grocery shops focus on an alternative way of trading: As consumer cooperatives, they not only enable their members to participate and actively contribute, but also offer high-quality organic food at fair prices. By working with small…
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New perspectives for sustainability and the circular economy
Fraunhofer at the Hannover Messe Press Preview Stuttgart/Germany, February 20, 2025. Concrete solution for urgent challenges: In the CYCLOMETRIC project, researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering IAO have developed a solution that enables companies to integrate sustainability assessments and circular economy concepts into early development phases – precisely where the greatest levers for…
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Future research and technology integration for urban ecosystems
Fraunhofer IAO is partner of the future festival FUTUROMUNDO FORESIGHT Stuttgart/Germany, February 20, 2025. Fraunhofer IAO and Futuromundo Multi-Conference & Festivals officially announce their cooperation and the speaker line-up for Futuromundo Foresight 2025. The Future Urban Economies Forum on the future of value creation opportunities and design potential of urban spaces is one of several…
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AI-supported sorting system for textile recycling – ‘SprayCloth – Sorting System’ research project launched
By precisely recognising and separating textiles according to their material composition, the ‘SprayCloth’ innovation network aims to achieve a sustainable circular economy with a new sorting system. The Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection (BMWK) is funding the joint project at Kempten University of Applied Sciences for three years with a sum of…
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First AR-based Fraunhofer app developed at Fraunhofer HHI
The augmented reality app DEVA (Dynamic Exposure Visualization App) from the Fraunhofer Heinrich-Hertz-Institut (HHI) is now available for free in the Google Play Store and Apple Store. The app enables users to visualize air pollution and other environmental data in their surroundings in real time. Using AR visualizations such as floating particles, it displays pollutants…
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Pioneers of the food transition Ten German municipalities selected
– The funding project ‘Zukunft aufgetischt! Shaping nutrition together’ supports ten pilot initiatives for the design of healthy and sustainable food systems in seven federal states over a period of two years.– Forward-looking concepts that develop and test new ideas for local access to healthy food together with citizens were selected.– Municipalities in Bavaria, Brandenburg,…