On June 3, curious minds are invited to a new edition of "Book a Scientist". In this format, initiated by the Leibniz Association, Leibniz researchers answer questions on topics that touch everyday life. This time, six scientists from the IOER are taking part.
In March and April 2025, Dr Sabine Dörry from the Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) was a visiting scientist at the IOER. As the first fellow, the economic and financial geographer helped shape the launch of the IOER Fellowship Programme. Her stay at the IOER was driven by the question of how “sustainable” a project or entire programmes can be when financing is based on economic structures that are themselves neither sustainable nor fair. In this interview, she discusses her work and the exchange with her colleagues at the IOER.
The GOAT 3.0 project has resulted in greatly enhanced software for more efficient integrated urban and transport planning. Various partners, including the Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development (IOER), worked together on the project with the aim of making cities and transport more sustainable. GOAT 3.0 was funded by the Federal Ministry for Digital Affairs and Transport as part of the mFUND.
The construction sector is one of the world's biggest polluters. It is responsible for the enormous consumption of natural resources and the emission of large quantities of greenhouse gases. At the same time, it generates many tonnes of construction waste. If this is to change, more building materials need to be recycled and components reused, among other things. With the “Material Cadastre of Buildings in Germany”, scientists at the Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development (IOER) are now providing an important basis for such recycling in the construction sector. For the…
With its fellowship programme, the Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development (IOER) is offering established scientists the opportunity to advance their research ideas and network during a guest stay at the IOER. The current call for application is open until 12 May 2025.
Under the heading "Excessive Change?", this year's Spatial Science Colloquium (RWK2025) is dedicated to new departures and old contradictions of socio-ecological transformation. The Leibniz Research Network “Spatial Knowledge for Society and the Environment – Leibniz R”, of which the IOER is a member, is hosting the event in Berlin on 26 and 27 June.
Under the heading "Justice in an interlinked world: revisiting rural-urban and South-North relationships in sustainability transformations", a Summer School in September 2025 will be dedicated to questions of justice in rural-urban and global South-North relationships towards sustainability. The Summer School is aimed at mid-career scholars. It will take place from 9 to 11 September 2025 at the Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development (IOER) in Dresden. The application deadline was 30 March.
The rapid urbanisation in many countries does not only have consequences for cities. The previously rural regions surrounding growing mega-cities are also undergoing change. The joint project “Urban-Rural Assembly” (URA), in which the Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development (IOER) is involved, has been investigating this transformation of urban-rural regions in China since April 2019. The project team has now published findings from the project and experiences from other regions of the world in a handbook.
The official launch of the European Union-funded project ‘TriLand - Cross-border Transformation Centre | TriLand - Transgraniczne Centrum Transformacji’ took place on 3 December with a kick-off conference in Zgorzelec, Poland. Welcoming speeches from government representatives from Saxony, Lower Silesia and North Bohemia emphasised the importance of the project topic: cross-border cooperation for the sustainable development of the three-country region. The Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development (IOER) is involved in the project with its Görlitz-based Interdisciplinary…
The Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development is jointly funded by the federal government and the federal states.
This measure is co-financed by tax funds on the basis of the budget approved by the Saxon State Parliament.
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