Institute for Future Studies and Technology Assessment
| IZT - Institute for Future Studies and Technology Assessment | |
|---|---|
| Category: | non-university research institution |
| Carrier: | none |
| Legal form of the carrier: | profit company |
| Membership: | Ecological Research Network (Ecornet) |
| Facility location: | Berlin |
| Arose from: | Institute for Future Research |
| Type of research: | Applied research |
| Areas of expertise: | Future research , technology assessment |
| Management: | Roland Nolte (Managing Director) Stephan Rammler (scientific director) |
| Employee: | 36 |
| Homepage: | www.izt.de |
The IZT - Institute for Future Studies and Technology Assessment is a non-university research facility for future research and technology assessment in Berlin . The research is aimed at supporting decision-makers in business and society by providing knowledge to promote innovative products, processes and services as well as practical knowledge.
overview
The institute was founded - with the participation of futurologists Robert Jungk , Dietrich Goldschmidt and Ossip K. Flechtheim - in 1981 in Berlin by the physicist and sociologist Rolf Kreibich and the architect and urban planner Jakob Schulze-Rohr .
The motivation behind the establishment was the firm anchoring of scientific futurology in Germany. Right from the start, the research institute focused on analyzing and helping to shape new technologies and is committed to the principle of sustainable development . It is internationally oriented and cooperates with numerous European and non-European research institutions, it sees itself as independent and non-profit.
In over 400 research projects to date, the IZT's studies are primarily concerned with the development and evaluation of ecological products, the creation of new strategies for the rational use of energy and the evaluation of the effects of information and communication technologies on privacy, the environment and health.
30 scientists from the natural, social, cultural, economic, engineering and human sciences work in interdisciplinary project teams. The research results are published in specialist publishers such as Springer Verlag and in three of the IZT's own publication series. Roland Nolte is managing director of the IZT and the mobility and futurologist Stephan Rammler has been the scientific director since October 2018.
Main topics
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Future research and participation
- Applied futurology
- Theory and method development
- Social innovations
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Sustainability and transformation
- Governance , learning
- Energy , resources , emissions
- Infrastructure , city , mobility
- Technology and innovation
Client
The IZT raises its budget mainly from third-party funds . Important customers are the EU Commission and international organizations, federal and state ministries, business associations, sole proprietorships, foundations and national institutions for technology assessment.
Methods
The IZT has many years of experience with the methods of participatory future research ( future workshops , scenario development , Delphi method, etc.). Research approaches are taken up and further developed in ongoing projects, such as B. Sustainability assessment , road mapping , identification of focus groups , benchmarking , early technology detection and service engineering.
Bodies
The scientific advisory board consists of:
- Christine Ahrend (1st Vice President for Research, Appointments and Promotion of Young Talent at the Technical University of Berlin )
- Hans-Liudger Dienel (German technical historian and scientific director of the Center for Technology and Society at the Technical University of Berlin )
- Felix Ekardt (German lawyer , philosopher and sociologist )
- Maximilian Gege (founding member and chairman of the German working group for environmentally conscious management )
- Hartmut Graßl (Chair) (emeritus professor at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology , Hamburg)
- Armin Grunwald ( ITAS / KIT Karlsruhe )
- Martin Jänicke (em. Prof. of the FU Berlin Environmental Policy Research Center )
- Lenelis Kruse-Graumann (Professor of Psychology at Heidelberg University and Vice President of the UN Decade for Sustainable Education )
- Peter H. Mettler (former professor at Wiesbaden University of Applied Sciences )
- Reinhold Popp ( former scientific director of the Center for Future Studies, Salzburg University of Applied Sciences )
- Uwe Schneidewind ( President Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment, Energy )
- Walter C. Zimmerli ( Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus ) .
IZT Future Prize
Since 2004, the IZT has been awarding the IZT Future Prize for “social imagination” and creative innovations. The award is presented every two years and each time is placed under a different relevant topic of futurology.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Client and donor
- ^ "Architect Jakob Schulze-Rohr died" , Berliner Morgenpost, November 24, 2008
- ↑ Projects
- ↑ Publications
- ↑ [1] press release
- ↑ http://www.innovations-report.de/html/profile/profil-1099.html
- ↑ [2] Scientific Advisory Board of the IZT (February 2019)