WP 1: Potential Analysis of Lead Products / Technologies

Work Package 1 aims to identify products and technologies with a high resource efficiency potential (key products and technologies) and to analyse markets for the provision of resource-efficient products (lead markets). The projected result is a list of central, innovative, resource-efficient lead products, lead technologies and lead markets. This will form the basis for an in-depth analysis of the resource efficiency of approx. 20 selected key products, technologies and markets. In addition, the project will take into account the obtainability of innovative services, which makes access to key markets possible in the first place.

Content and Method

• Work Package 1 classifies innovative key products and technologies that increase resource efficiency according to relevant criteria, e.g. by sector, categories of needs, product groups and technologies.
• A survey on key products and technologies and international experience gathered in industrialised, emerging and developing economies will feed into the selection process; the choice will be evaluated in a workshop attended by specialists in the field.
• A network of experts will carry out an analysis of the potential for resource efficiency in the fields under investigation. A degree programme will be linked to the work of the experts.
• More comprehensive analyses will be carried out under expert supervision within the framework of a "resource-efficiency potential" degree programme. The analyses will be discussed and evaluated by a circle of qualified specialists (e.g. in an experts' workshop and two degree students' workshops). The results will be published on the "Network Resource Efficiency" (Work Package 10). The findings of the analyses will be incorporated into the compilation of technology roadmaps in Work Package 9 on an ongoing basis.

Participators Work Package 1:

• Trifolium - Beratungsgesellschaft mbH
• Fraunhofer-Institut für Arbeitswirtschaft und Organisation (IAO)
• UNEP/Wuppertal Institute Collaborating Centre on Sustainable Consumption and Production (CSCP)
• Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen (RWTH)
• Technische Universität Berlin
• Technische Universität Darmstadt
• Technische Universität Dresden
• Universität Kassel
• Fraunhofer-Institut für Umwelt-, Sicherheits- und Energietechnik (UMSICHT)
• Institut für Energie- und Umweltforschung Heidelberg GmbH (ifeu)
• BASF SE
• ThyssenKrupp Steel AG
• Daimler AG
• Effizienz-Agentur NRW
• Deutsche Materialeffizienzagentur (demea)