Projects

IGB (project lead Thomas Mehner) is part of a consortium that is running a new Horizon 2020 project ‘PONDERFUL’, led by the University of Vic (Spain). The project’s overarching aim is to develop improved methods for maximising the use of ponds and pondscapes in climate change adaptation and mitigation, biodiversity conservation and the delivery of ecosystem services.

Water-ForCE will bring together experts on water quality and quantity, in policy, research, engineering and service sectors to develop a Roadmap for the water component for the future Copernicus services.

RESIST- A Collaborative Research Centre on multiple stressor affecting streams and rivers.

Which network of protected areas could assure freshwater biodiversity and ecosystem services under present and future environmental conditions, at the lowest possible cost?

The new German-Chinese cooperation project deals with ice-covered lakes of the Tibetan and Mongolian plateaus and their reaction to climate change. The aim is to set up an international research network that will close the gap in knowledge about ice-covered lakes as important but hitherto little-studied components of the hydrological and climatic system.

Our current era is characterized by increasing amounts of data and information that make it increasingly hard to gain and keep an overview of research fields. To tackle this challenge and using the research field of invasion science as an example, we will develop an open and interactive navigation tool that allows to dive into the field’s research questions and hypotheses, discover relevant publications and datasets.

In this project, we will develop a prototype for an argumentation machine that supports users in and during the argumentation process in a scientific context. The goal is to enable for example fresh PhD students to develop and refine their own research hypotheses in the research field of invasion biology by referring them to the relevant scientific terminology and respective publications.

Nature based solutions in cities can help mitigate the negative effects of future climate change and improve biodiversity and urban life.