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Privat
"Soil organisms are important ecosystem engineers"
The effects of climate change on soil biodiversity are the research focus of Leibniz Prize winner Nico Eisenhauer.
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Universität Stuttgart/IGVP
"Microalgae on building facades can green the city"
Linus Stegbauer wants to use microalgae to improve the urban climate by developing facade elements for buildings that are coated with a special biofilm of living microalgae.
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Privat
"Perennial grain crops are a resource-saving alternative"
Plant researcher Maria von Korff Schmising wants to make food production more sustainable by breeding perennial cereal crops.
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Haute Innovation
"Design-to-fade concept particularly promising for the future"
Sascha Peters is a materials expert and trend scout for new technologies. He is convinced: The recycling of resources must already be considered in product design.
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Susanne Kambor
"Bioeconomy is the core of sustainability policy"
Sustainability researcher Dirk Messner has been President of the Federal Environment Agency since January of this year. In an interview he talks about the opportunities and challenges on the way to a bio-based economy, the corona pandemic and the value of global networking.
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FZ Jülich
Creating regional bioeconomy areas
Ulrich Schurr wants to turn the Rhenish lignite mining area into a model region for a sustainable bioeconomy. To achieve this, he is relying on the regional strengths and conditions to master the structural change.
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Understanding the bioeconomy system
The Leipzig Helmholtz researcher Daniela Thrän systematically examines Germany's path to bioeconomy. As co-author of the first Bioeconomy Monitoring, she knows the strengths and weaknesses of bio-based change – especially with regard to bioenergy systems.
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Anne Günther/FSU Jena
The smut whisperer
Jan Schirawski is researching the genome of smut in order to better understand the mechanism of action of this plant parasite.
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Martin Weinhold
Building houses from fungi
Vera Meyer is fascinated by fungi: As a biotechnologist, she wants to use the metabolic potential of the living organisms to breathe life into the bioeconomy – but she also wants to inspire with art.
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PAPACKS
Customizing green packaging
Since 2013 PAPACKS has been developing packaging and products from renewable resources.
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Jan-Peter Kasper, FSU
New impulses for electrobiotechnology
Biochemist Miriam Rosenbaum is a true pioneer in the field of electrobiotechnology. In the following interview she explains how she intends to replace oxygen in biotech processes.
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DSMZ
Smart analysis of microbial data treasures
Microbiologist Jörg Overmann wants to investigate the diversity of bacteria and relies on artificial intelligence.
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German Livestock Association (BRS)
The dairy cow of the future
The veterinarian Jens Baltissen talks about modern breeding approaches for dairy cows favored by bioeconomy researchers in the German Livestock Association.
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IÖW, Gordon Welters
New solutions to reduce packaging waste
Together with partners from business and municipalities, Frieder Rubik is looking for new strategies to minimize the use of plastic packaging in retail.
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Tonni Grube Andersen
How plant roots communicate
Plant researcher Tonni Andersen is the 2019 Kovalevskaja Award winner. He seeks to understand how roots exchange information with soil microbes and is setting up a new research group at the Max Planck Institute in Cologne.
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Getting the best from biowaste with worms
Michael Quintern breeds earthworms to transform biowaste into precious humus.
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G. Hägele, SRS, University of Duisburg-Essen
Training plants like athletes
Friederike Kögler has developed a method with which plants learn to survive with less water.
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Mattes Linde
Capturing global biodiversity
The Berlin biologist Michael Ohl wants to record the diversity of animal species on earth with the help of innovative technologies - at the new Center for Integrative Biodiversity Discovery.
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Novis GmbH
Biogas from mushrooms
Thomas Helle, Managing Director of Tübingen-based Novis GmbH, is developing a biogas plant using mushroom compost as part of the EU project "Smartmushroom".
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IPR
Utilizing jellyfish
Scientific assistant at the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research, Kiel, and coordinator of the EU project "GoJelly".