Innovation research has long been dominated by two theory-method-bundles which only deal with a rather small section of this wide research area. The editors of the HSR special issue aim at overcoming this "extreme self-constraint”....more

For another four years Dr. Shahrooz Mohajeri, inter 3 director, will support the regional group North-East of the German Association for Water, Wastewater and Waste (DWA) as a member of its advisory board....more

Land is a vital and increasingly scarce resource all over the world. On April 14th and 15th, the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) gave the go-ahead to nine Innovation Groups from all over Germany to develop solutions for sustainable land management. Together with the Leibnitz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), the inter 3 Institute for Resource Management will provide scientific coordination and support to all projects. ...more

With a kick-off meeting on March 24th in Berlin the project on integrated water resources management at the Zayandeh Rud has entered its second phase. Until 2018, old and new partners from academia and business will develop and implement sustainable water use strategies for one of Iran’s most important rivers....more

An ESiTI seminar on "Sewage and Sludge Treatment in the Focus of the Future Energy Market” took place on the 3rd of March 2015. The assessment criteria for system variations of wastewater treatment plants are now to be validated....more

The multilingual book "Policy transfer in technical and vocational education to Egypt” which has just been published provides an interesting overview over processes and experiences of the R&D project Water Energy Building Training and Transfer (WEB-TT)....more

The practical guide on the idea, planning and implementation of rooftop greenhouses entitled "There’s something growing on the roof” has now been translated into English. ...more