Current Projects
Third-Party Funded Projects
WISSENS.KERNiG - Systematisches Wissensmanagement zur Stärkung kommunaler Nachhaltigkeitsgovernance im Bereich Ernährung
- Project lead: Prof. Dr. Heiner Schanz
Project member: David Sipple
- Period: 04/2020 - 10/2022
Funding: Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) within funding line „Social-Ecological Research“ (SÖF), thematic focus on "Nachhaltige Transformation urbaner Räume"
- Partner: Stadt Leutkirch im Allgäu
Cooperation partners: Arizona State University, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability (Prof. Dr. Arnim Wiek), Deutscher Städte- und Gemeindebund
- Project-Website (in german)
KASCoP - Cascades in Biomass Value Chains as 'Communities of Practices'
- Project lead: Prof. Dr. Heiner Schanz
Project Members: Chiara Iurato, Elena Mager
- Period: 05/2019 - 09/2023
Funding: Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) im Förderschwerpunkt „Bioökonomie als gesellschaftlicher Wandel, Modul 2"
Cooperation partners: Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences (Prof. Dr. Harald Sverdrup)
Scientific Qualification Projects
Governance of markets for sustainability transitions - Towards a sustainable circular bio-economy?
sub-project within „KASCoP - Cascades in Biomass Value Chains as 'Communities of Practices'”
Dissertation - Chiara Iurato
- First supervisor: Prof. Dr. Heiner Schanz
Second supervisor: Prof. Dr. Piergiuseppe Morone (Unitelma Sapienza Rome)
Period: 07/2020 - 09/2023
Funding: Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) in the funding priority "Bioeconomy as Social Change, Module 2"
Governance of a Cascading Use of Resources: a System Dynamics Perspective
sub-project within „KASCoP - Cascades in Biomass Value Chains as 'Communities of Practices'”
Dissertation - Elena Mager
- First supervisor: Prof. Dr. Heiner Schanz
Second supervisor: Prof. Dr. Harald Ulrik Sverdrup (Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences)
- Period: 08/2020 – 09/2023
Funding: Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) in the funding priority "Bioeconomy as Social Change, Module 2"
Fishing for Litter – A Market-Actor-Network Perspective on Marine Plastic Waste Management
Dissertation - Emma Gothár
First supervisor: Prof. Dr. Heiner Schanz
- Period: 01/2019 – 09/2023
Funding: Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich Scholarship Fund
Agricultural policy and the destabilization of socio-technical regimes
Dissertation - Leonard Frank
- First supervisor: Prof. Dr. Heiner Schanz
Second supervisor: Ass. Prof. Dr. Guiseppe Feola (Universiteit Utrecht)
- Period: 7/2020 - 3/2023
Funding: Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes
Market configurations in emergent value chains of the bioeconomy
within „BioMANik – market actor networks and market dynamics within bioeconomic value chains”
Dissertation - Marzena Wilczynski
First supervisor: Prof. Dr. Heiner Schanz
- Period: 01/2017 – 09/2022
Funding: Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) im Förderschwerpunkt „Bioökonomie als gesellschaftlicher Wandel“
Business models of collaborative consumption
Dissertation - Martin Ritter
- First Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Heiner Schanz
Second supervisor: Prof. Dr. S. Lengsfeld
Period: 07/2016 - 07/2019
Funding: IKT2020-Innovationen für Kommunen und Regionen im demographischen Wanden (InnovaKomm)