Our research projects

Projects

• DAKIS-pro – Digital Agricultural Knowledge and Information System (DAKIS) - Digitale Wissens- und Informationsverarbeitung in der Landwirtschaft - professional ▶

  The DAKIS-pro project is developing an automated decision support system (EUS) that integrates ecosystem services (ES) and biodiversity (BioDiv) into agricultural utilisation. It takes site-specific and landscape context…

  

  Start:

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  01.01.2025

  30.09.2025

  Funding authority:

  Bundesministerium für Forschung, Technologie und Raumfahrt (BMFTR)

• NEXRUR – New sustainable business and production models for farmers and rural communities ▶

  URSOILL primary objective is to bolster the restoration of urban soils across the EU, and to repurpose it for new uses, continuing and improving the capacity of soil to provide ESs. This aim is pursued by establishing 5 …

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  End:

  01.10.2025

  30.09.2029

  Funding authority:

  Europäische Union (EU)

• AnkER – WIR! biogeniV - AnkER - Anklamer Energie Region bV-D1 ▶

  This project investigates systemic innovation pathways for the material and energetic valorisation of agricultural residues and by-products. The focus lies on the practical implementation of these approaches in a designa…

  

  Start:

  End:

  01.05.2025

  30.04.2028

  Funding authority:

  Bundesministerium für Forschung, Technologie und Raumfahrt (BMFTR)

• MoorMass – Potenziale für die Bereitstellung, Lagerung und Konservierung von Paludibiomasse durch landwirtschaftliche Betriebe ▶

  A number of large companies are currently developing prototypes for the utilisation of biomass, including as paper and packaging or building and insulation materials. If rapid further development into products is emergin…

  

  Start:

  End:

  01.04.2025

  31.01.2026

  Funding authority:

  Edmund Rehwinkel-Stiftung

• RLA – KI Reallabor Agrar ▶
  

  Start:

  End:

  01.08.2025

  31.07.2030

  Funding authority:

  Land Niedersachsen

• projekt-696 – European Network of Agroecology Living Labs and Research Infrastructures ▶
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  End:

  01.05.2025

  31.12.2033

  Funding authority:

• SQAT – Soil Quality Analysis Tool: Implementing Smart Farming Applications using EO Data, Soil Sensors & Robotics ▶

  Digitalisation, robotics, and smart algorithms have brought the data economy to the farm. However, farms face large societal pressures related to soil: cleaner water, healthier soils, improved carbon storage and increase…

  

  Start:

  End:

  01.02.2024

  31.07.2026

  Funding authority:

  Europäische Union (EU)

• Soil-X-Change – Fostering cross-border knowledge exchange and co-creation on sustainable soil and farm management ▶

  The Soil-X-Change Initiative aims to facilitate knowledge exchange and collaboration on sustainable soil and farm management. It will connect farmers, policymakers, projects, and initiatives to accelerate innovation and …

  

  Start:

  End:

  01.01.2024

  31.12.2026

  Funding authority:

  Europäische Union (EU)

• FutureFoodS – European partnership for a sustainable Future of Food Systems ▶

  The Partnership for Sustainable Food Systems - SFS - aims for the transformation of national, EU and global food systems, making them safe, sustainable, healthy, resilient and trusted - for everyone and within planetary …

  

  Start:

  End:

  01.06.2024

  30.05.2034

  Funding authority:

  Europäische Union (EU)

• POUNDER – POllution in UrbaN ponds, eco-evolutionary Dynamics, and Ecosystem Resilience ▶

  The POUNDER project focuses on the adaptation of urban ponds to pollution to enhance the resilience of aquatic ecosystems. It aims to explore eco-evolutionary dynamics and ecosystem resilience in the face of environmenta…

  

  Start:

  End:

  01.01.2024

  31.12.2026

  Funding authority:

  Senatsausschuss Wettbewerb (SAW) der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft