Sustainability Center Freiburg

Humanity is confronted with great challenges today. Problems such as climate change and scarcity of ressources can only be successfully dealt with through sustainable development. We will only succeed in doing so with new findings in research.

This is the reason why the University of Freiburg and Freiburg's five Fraunhofer institutes have decided to establish the inter- and transdisciplinary Sustainability Center Freiburg together.

Freiburg is the ideal location for this alliance. The City of Freiburg pursues an ambitious sustainability policy. Its excellent research institutions are driving forces of this development. The University of Freiburg with its long tradition in sustainability research and the city's five Fraunhofer institutes belong to the leading institutions worldwide regarding relevant research fields such as material and energy research.

The LZN funds research projects in the key areas of a) sustainable energy systems, b) sustainable materials, components and products and c) resilient infrastructure and habitats. In this way, technologies are (further) developed and knowledge is generated in a total of 9 thematic fields within the key areas on the fundamental as well as a more application-oriented level. You can find out more about the LZN's key research areas and research projects here.

The LZN also focuses on the transfer of scientific results and technologies along the Fraunhofer transfer paths to various areas of industry and society. The core areas of transfer are contract research, spin-offs, transfer via heads and transfer via co-operations. You can find our transfer services here.