Research Database: Projects

Two billion people worldwide suffer from the consequences of inadequate nutrition and micronutrient deficiencies, which result in physical weakness, disease and, in extreme cases, death. Against this background, the German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL), with the support of the project executing agency Federal Agency for Agriculture and Food (BLE), is funding four German-African research consortia with a total funding amount of around 4.5 million euros for the next three years.

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Food Pro.tec.ts was developed to be able to bring high-class, technological innovations to the German-Dutch economic area. In the project, companies from both countries cooperate with innovation experts within various technology clusters with the aim of jointly developing new and novel technologies and learning how to use them. The sub-project "Food Pro.tec.ts Knowledge Transfer" develops exercises, trainings and knowledge transfer for consumers and users of new technologies in one of 8 work packages. The work packages focus on the development of sustainability and CSR management, communication as well as education strategies to promote a common understanding of sustainability in the Rhine-Waal region. This is the basis for the development of trend-setting technologies and processes that meet the ecological, ethical, social and economic market requirements. Through these developments, the competitiveness of SMEs in the agricultural and food industry in the Rhine-Waal region is secured in the long term. The reputation of the Rhine-Waal region beyond regional borders as an attractive and sustainable business location is strengthened.

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The project intends to better exploit the potential of edible insects for nutrition. It explores different processing technologies of local insect species and expands small-scale commercial production and processing activities. The goal is to produce safe and nutritious end products that fill seasonal gaps, increase household food security, and improve the income situation of poor women in Madagascar and Myanmar. The network coordinator is the Center for Development Research ZEF at the University of Bonn.

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The international Summer School "Green and Social Entrepreneurship for Biodiversity Conservation and Local Development" will take place from November 4 to 11, 2018 in the South African province of KwaZulu Natal and is jointly organized by a network of the following African and German partners.

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Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences has adapted its existing transfer instruments to the changing demands and requirements of business and needs of business, society and science and developed new suitable transfer mechanisms. The project was funded by the federal-state initiative "Innovative University".

Within the framework of the NRW-Ghana Partnership and the funding program "NRW-Partnerships for the Promotion of Technical Universities in Ghana", the Ministry of Innovation, Economy and Research (MIWF) has been funding the university partnership project "Partnership for Applied Sciences - PASS" between the Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences (consortium leader), the Cologne University of Applied Sciences, the International University of Applied Sciences Bad Honnef and the two Ghanaian universities Kumasi Technical University and Cape Coast Technical University through the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) since 2017.

The aim of the project is to establish a structure that is sustainable in the long term and meets the requirements of animal welfare and environmental justice, as well as the business and social needs of livestock farms. Due to the consequences for the livestock farming industry, a broad dialog is required. This is to be worked out in the further course of a dialog process with agriculture, including the upstream and downstream economy, environmental and animal welfare associations as well as the food retail trade and consumer associations.

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BET Ghana is a transdisciplinary research and transfer project between the Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg, the University of Cape Coast and partners from the consumer goods and food processing industries in Germany/Europe and Ghana. The stated overall project goal is to enhance employability and (self-) employment opportunity of students and graduates specifically in the Ghanaian consumer goods and food processing industry.

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NEIS is a project of the consumer advice center of North Rhine-Westphalia, which is carried out in cooperation with universities at three locations in NRW. It is funded by the Ministry of the Environment, Agriculture, Nature Conservation and Consumer Protection of North Rhine-Westphalia.

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The KLUGER Transfer project stands for knowledge transfer in the fields of climate, environment and health research. The aim is to strengthen the transfer of knowledge from basic research at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry (MPIC) via applied research at the International Center for Sustainable Development (IZNE) at Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences (H-BRS) to the public, politics and business. Different formats for targeted exchange are being tested in order to improve communication between science, society and politics.

Project management at the H-BRS