Project consortium

Wuppertal Institute

The Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy, (www.wupperinst.org) founded in 1991, is committed to application-oriented sustainability research and has long-term experience in assessing opportunities and challenges of technologies. Based on interdisciplinary research results and scientists' professional know-how, the institute possesses large experience in developing methods and shaping new research fields in networks and across disciplines and institutions. By researching for politics, economy and society the institute plays a wide reaching meditative role. As member of the interdisciplinary Science Centre North Rhine-Westphalia, including the Institute for Work and Technology it is part of a larger international network of institutes focusing on the (sustainability) assessment of technologies.

EMPA

EMPA (http://www.empa.ch) is the ETH (Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology) domain's institution for multidisciplinary research into sustainable materials and systems engineering. As an independent, neutral research institution, EMPA solves selected tasks and problems of a scientific and technical nature. EMPA is most active in nanotechnology and is generating new knowledge, new materials and new applications and is transferring this know-how to potential users. Nanotechnological reliability factors play a major part in EMPA's research.

Forum for the Future

Founded in 1996 the UK's Forum for the Future (www.forumforthefuture.org.uk) is a sustainable development charity working to accelerate the transition to a sustainable way of life through a positive-solutions orientated approach. The Forum works through partnerships with leading companies, local authorities, regional bodies and universities, to deliver a shared commitment to sustainability.

triple innova

triple innova (www.triple-innova.de) founded in 2002, is a Pan-European applied research and training organisation on triple bottom line (TBL) tools, methods and innovation concepts for enhanced global product network management. It works on awareness raising about the importance of an integrated understanding of social, cultural, environmental and related legal aspects among decision maker in business, academia and politics. It develops solution-oriented concepts to investigate in technical and organisational TBL improvement opportunities in a single organisation and in a network of organisations. It helps to facilitate communication and information sharing in interdisciplinary and intercultural networks.