Fraunhofer Institute for Environmental, Safety and Energy Technology UMSICHT
Fraunhofer Institute for Environmental, Safety and Energy Technology UMSICHT

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The topics energy, raw materials, climate, sustainability, and the shift from a linear to a circular economy are relevant for Germany and internationally. This is why we get actively involved in transnational project development. We would like to present some international projects to you that we are carrying out in Europe and around the world.  

In order to exploit synergies in technology development and to expand scientific added value we cooperate with partners from all over the world. We have strategic cooperations with Kuwait, the University of Alberta in Edmonton/Canada and the University of Birmingham, UK.

You can find examples of our transnational project development here.

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Current projects

AgTOGasEI

Use of an agricultural by-product by means of torrefaction and gasification to generate electricity

BiNiFe

High operational reliability, long service life as well as low-cost materials and production: these are the factors that the stationary battery storage system being developed as part of the German-South African project should fulfil.

BIOCLEAN

BIOfilm management and CLEANing by leveraging fundamental understanding of biological, chemical and physical combined approaches

CARE

Towards Circular Indonesion AgricultuRE: Promoting Rice Husk-to-Electricity for clean rural eletrification
Technical evaluations, TV: Technical evaluations and Innovation Acceptance

  • CARE (umsicht.fraunhofer.de)

FERTIMANURE

FERTIMANURE will develop, integrate, test and validate innovative Nutrient Management Strategies to efficiently recover mineral nutrients and other products with agronomic value from manure.

flexJET

A large number of organic waste raw materials are used for the production of sustainable aviation fuel.

HIGFLY

Developing the next generation of technologies for the production of sustainable aviation fuel

ICON - International Cooperation and Networking

Sustainable concepts for energy production and supply of the future

LCESforPV

Cost-effective, decentralized energy storage for solar photovoltaic fixation

LimnoPlast

European project to investigate microplastics in freshwater environments

MultiCycle

Advanced and sustainable recycling processes and value chains for plastic-based multi-materials

To-Syn-Fuel

The project focuses on the question of how fuel and hydrogen can be produced from residual biomass without synthesis.

Finished projects

AERTO

Value from waste: sustainable recovery of scarce metals and safe management of nanowaste

AllGas

Industrial scale demonstration of sustainable algae cultures for biofuel production (Germany, Netherlands, Austria, Portugal, UK)

BEn

Development of a biomass energy register for a sustainable site development for European regions

Bio-HiPe-Composite

Development of composite materials containing innovative high-performance cellulose fibers from Performance BioFilaments

BioMates

The BioMates project aspires in combining innovative 2nd generation biomass conversion technologies for the cost-effective production of bio-based intermediates (BioMates) that can be further upgraded in existing oil refineries as renewable and reliable co-feedstocks.

Bio-MS

Development of a starch compound to produce flower packages   

BioRice

BIOtechnology for the recovery of valuable peptides from industrial RICE by-products and production of added value ingredients for nutraceuticals, functional foods and cosmetics

BioSuck

Decision support system on optimized waste collection by vacuum technology with simultaneous production of bioenergy from wastes

BLES

Blended learning in environmental science in the field of biodegradable waste (Bulgaria, Germany, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland)

BRIMEE

»Cost-effective and sustainable Bio-Renewable Indoor Materials with high potential for customisation and creative design in Energy Efficient buildings«

Cachet

CO2 Capture with hydrogen production (Bulgaria, Denmark, Germany, Austria, UK)

COACH

Strengthening the energy use of biomass in Central and Eastern Europe by establishing a standardised transnational consulting net for regions

COALSWAD

Investigation of adsorption and swelling behaviour of coal to determine the feasibility of CO2 sequestration and CH4 production enhancement

Com-Cat-Tar

Wood gasification with catalytic gas purification

CoMeth

Coal mine methane – new solutions for use of CMM - reduction of GHG emissions

DoHIP

Training program for the design of resource and energy efficient products by high pressure processes

ECLIPSE

Renewable eco-friendly poly(lactic acid) nanocomposites from waste sources

ECOplast

Research in new biomass-based composited from renewable resources with improved properties for vehicle parts moulding

Energizing Development

Biofuels as a link between environmental priorities and poverty alleviation: a possible challenge? (Argentina, Brazil, Italy, Portugal, Romania)

euCEP

European center for elastomeric powders (Germany, Netherlands)

EUWAS

European Waste Sector Assistant

FAME (biodiesel): Improving the Sustainability of Fatty Acid Methyl Esters

The aim of this tender is to assess several ways to improve the green house gas balance of biodiesel based on fatty acid methyl ester (FAME)

Gasification Guide

Guideline for safe and eco-friendly biomass gasification (Bulgaria, Denmark, Germany, Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland, UK)

greasoline

A new technology for conversion of waste fats to high-qualitative fuels (Germany, Netherlands, UK)

GreenGasGrids

Boosting the European market for biogas production, upgrade and feed-in into the natural gas grid

HELIS

High energy lithium sulphur cells and batteries

Integration4Water

Initiative 4 facilitating the integration of research potential from the accession candidate countries with the potential of member states in the area of water cycle and soil related issues (Germany, Poland)

IRMATECH

Integrated researchers on materials, technologies and processes to enhance MCFC in a sustainable development (Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Turkey)

JERRI

Joining Efforts for Responsible Research and Innovation

Leadership

Leading European RTD sustained high value innovative production for manufuture (Belgium, Denmark, Germany, France, Italy, Portugal, Poland, Spain, UK)

Micrograss

Release of sugars from cellulosic biomass using microwave plasma technology for the production of bioethanol (Denmark, Germany, Sweden, UK)

MiDeCO2 – Microbiological Decontamination with CO2

An innovative CO2 decontamination technology to ensure the food safety of food products with low water activity

MouldPulp

Development of durable, fully bio-based thermoplastic composites from bioplastics and pulp fibres for injection molding applications (Germany, Finland, Sweden)

OilProDiesel

Reuse of used frying oils to produce biodiesel (Municipality of Oeiras, Portugal) (Germany, Portugal, Switzerland, Spain, Hungary)

PoLaRoll

Fast and environmentally friendly laser structuring of tools for film production

ProEthanol2G

Integration of biology and engineering into an economical and energy-efficient 2G bioethanol biorefinery (Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland, Spain)

SHeMat

Training network for self-healing materials: from concepts to market

SHINE

Self-healing innovative elastomers for dynamic seals, damping and noise reduction

SOJUS Bioenergy

Initiation and support of international science cooperations between the partner countries Germany, Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus

SPLASH

Sustainable polymers from algae sugars and hydrocarbons

Surge-Net

Organisations involved in the prediction and analysis of fluid transient in pipe systems (Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Slovenia, UK)

SUSMILK

Redesigning of dairies for sustainable milk processing

Sweedhart

Separation of weeds during harvesting and hygienisation to enhance crop productivity in the long term

Vietnam Green Cities

Future cities are green (Germany, Vietnam)