Workshop: BDS-Workshop Innovation

Within the framework of the guideline for the funding of projects on the topic of "Exploring Regional Factors for Innovation and Change - Strengthening Societal Innovative Capacity" under the funding measure "REGION.innovativ", the project consortium is researching transformative capacities, i.e. the societal capacity based on various innovations and the activation of regional innovation systems to initiate and shape transformation processes.

On behalf of the Federal Environment Agency, ISIconsult, in collaboration with the Institute for Ecological Economic Research (IÖW), the Fraunhofer Institute for Reliability and Microintegration (IZM), and UNITAR, is investigating the societal causes of shortened lifespans of electrical and electronic devices. How do established social practices, societal norms, milieu-specific values, or (digital) consumer infrastructure influence the service lives of electrical appliances?

As part of the funding guideline "The digital municipality - supporting interactive, participatory and data-driven planning processes", the project consortium is researching the participatory involvement of children and young people in hybrid municipal planning processes using a gamified mixed reality platform.