research project

Digitalisation

Serious Gaming and Sustainability

Game controller with landscape

Gaming on PCs, consoles and smartphones has gained immense importance in recent years and not just since COVID-19 pandemic. The research project “Serious Gaming – Potentials for Knowledge Transfer and Change of Awareness for more Sustainability” of the German Environment Agency takes a look approaches to the use of games. The project has developed its own game "Little Impacts". read more

Health

Pilot project on environmental justice in German municipalities

Having a healthy living environment should not be coupled to level of income.

The socially disadvantaged neighbourhoods of many municipalities in Germany suffer from a high number of environment-related health risks. A research project by the German Institute of Urban Affairs (Difu) is testing key elements of a strategic approach to achieving environmental justice in three pilot municipalities. read more

The Umweltbundesamt

For our environment