Topics and Projects

Topics

• Green infrastructure and nature-based solutions
   
• Ecosystem services
   
• Climate protection, climate adaptation and natural risks
   
• Internalisation of environmental costs
   
• Sustainable management of biotic and abiotic resources
   

Current Projects

InterGrad-EGD

InterGrad-EGD is an International Graduate Academy planned by four universities of applied sciences in Saxony-Anhalt, which aims to create 22 doctoral positions on topics related to the European Green Deal (EGD) and to promote and retain international doctoral students in the region through networking, qualification and research stays.

Our working group hosts one doctoral student and is focussing on the following questions: How do the current status, planning approaches and implementation mechanisms of urban green infrastructures differ in different cities of the European Union, especially in Magdeburg and Vienna? What effects do urban green infrastructures have on urban and spatial planning, socio-economic aspects, the urban climate and the health of the population?

KAT-Network

The Competence Network for Applied and Transfer-Oriented Research (KAT) is an association of four Universities of Applied Sciences in Saxony-Anhalt. With the relaunch of this network for the period 2024-2027, the joint goal of research cooperation on climate neutrality in Saxony-Anhalt is being pursued for the first time.

What sustainable, resilient solutions for the challenges of climate change and the demands of the Green Deal can be developed [starting from Saxony-Anhalt]? Our contribution concerns the question: What solutions exist for a climate-resilient blue and green infrastructure?

UGI-Plan

Valorisation of ecosystem services of urban horticulture as part of urban green infrastructure in municipal development planning (2022-2024)

How should a GIS-based software be designed as a tool for municipal planning to quantify urban ecosystem services such as urban horticulture?

Climate Protection Concept of the University of Applied Sciences Magdeburg-Stendal

(2020-2023, continuation is requested)

How can emissions be neutralised in the area of energy and mobility by 2030 and in all university operations by 2050 at the latest?

RENO-TITAN

Reuse of NORM Residues from the Titanium Industry in Vietnam (2023 – 2026)

How can radioactive mining residues from the titanium industry in Vietnam be safely used, along with the associated sustainable management of resources, land and water, including coastal protection?

DryRivers

Goals, requirements, strategies and tools for sustainable low water risk management

(2022-2025, project management Prof. Bachmann, AG Engineering Ecology contributes in the thematic field of socio-economics)

How can an instrument look like that supports authorities in low water risk management and takes water management, socio-economic and ecological aspects equally into account?

Input-Oriented Cap and Trade (IOCT)

Supply-side certificate trading for fuel extraction (since 2021)

What are the advantages of IOCT compared to output-oriented emissions trading systems such as the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) and what are the key aspects to be considered for implementation?

Latest paper

International Collaboration for Sustainable Fisheries and Environmental Management in Bangladesh

Since 2018, Professor Dr. Petra Schneider of Hochschule Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences, Germany, and Dr. Mohammad Mozumder from the University of Helsinki, Finland, have been leading a significant international collaboration focused on the sustainable management of small-scale fisheries in Bangladesh.

How do socio-economic and ecological factors interact to shape the sustainability of small-scale fisheries in Bangladesh? What effective strategies and frameworks are required to govern and enhance Bangladesh's coastal and marine ecosystem resilience? 

Photo by Ashraful Haque Akash on Unsplash

Completed projects