Food waste, from harvest losses to consumption losses at the end consumer, happens along the whole supply chain. This project, funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), is to investigate to what extent contract mechanisms between individual actors in food supply chains (e.g., farmers, food producers, and retailers) can better coordinate the trade-off between profit orientation and sustainable demand planning , by influencing company-specific planning calculations. The overarching goal is to identify contract structures that align planning decisions and reduce the amount and distribution of food waste in a sustainable way throughout the entire supply chain.

The GATE project, founded by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection (BMWK) aims to sensitize logistics small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to the relevance of emissions reporting. In light of the growing interest in decarbonization and the possible competitive advantage of offering low emission transport services, adequate reporting of emissions is crucial to make actions visible. The project looks into how carriers currently calculate and report emissions, and what data shippers include in their emission models. A consolidated set of tools is to be developed to make methods and decisions relating to the calculation, reporting and dissemination of CO2 emissions, more tangible for SMEs and provides recommendations for action appropriate to the situation.

This research program focuses on the evaluation of ideas for new products or processes. While past research has mainly focused on idea creation, more recent research has recognized the importance of idea evaluation and selection in research and practice. Any mode of organizing for innovation can only succeed if ideas are effectively vetted such that ultimately the best ideas are selected for implementation. Being key to organizational performance, idea evaluation deserves a prominent role in economics and management research.

This project, funded by the European Regional Development Fund, is to investigate and promote the application of Wind Assisted Ship Propulsion (WASP) technologies. It aims to promote the development and adoption of products, services and processes to accelerate a greening of the North Sea Region and to run WASP technology real life trials on sea going ships in operation, showcase proven concepts, market adoption, and thus support green(er) sea transport.

The project aims to build a European alliance for a more circular economy between automotive manufacturers, component manufacturers, and logistics companies. With its focus on joint reverse logistics, Ce:Versa offers great potential for reducing CO2 emissions along the value chain.

Sea transport is relatively under-investigated in the business management, political economy and global governance literatures. The Green Shipping research network aims to address this knowledge gap. The overall goal is to advance knowledge and understanding towards the progressive governance of sustainable maritime transport and the accelerating “green shipping” trend.

CREAToR (funded by the European Commissions EASME-Program) aims to contribute to a circular economy by removing hazardous, bromine-containing flame-retardants from waste streams. The project is set to implement ways to collect secondary raw materials, identify the presence of hazardous flame retardants, remove these contaminants from the materials and finally reuse the materials. While the project’s main focus is on developing and advancing process technology, logistics plays a major role for successfully collecting suitable amounts of waste. The project develops logistics concepts for CREAToR.

The Port Reform Toolkit provides guidance to policymakers and practitioners on how to become more sustainable and promote environmental awareness in this sector of the shipping industry. This project, funded by the World Bank, serves as am input to review current developments in the ‘greening’ of a port and outline a road map and transferable methodology to identify and implement actions to improve the environmental performance of a port as an additional module input to the toolkit.

The Country Climate and Development Report (CCDR) analyzes how a country’s development goals can be achieved in the context of mitigating and/or adapting to climate change. This project, funded by the World Bank, is to prepare a standardized and transferable methodology and guidelines to identify, quantify, cost, and prioritize the mitigation and adaptation measures in a country’s port or ports as an input to a Country Climate and Development Report.

In cooperation with the Clean Cargo Initiative (CCI), this project advances sustainable operations in the maritime transportation sector. The CCI is the leading buyer-supplier forum and involves major brands, cargo carriers, and freight forwarders while reflecting around 80 percent of global container cargo capacity. The project promotes informational transparency and strives to reduce the sector’s environmental impact.