Austrian Environmental Expert Group
Forschungsinstitut für Energie- und Umweltplanung
Services
Public Services
- Consulting on environment, energy and climate matters
- Sustainable development strategies and approaches
- Environmental p.r.
- Concept development of projects limited to environment, energy and climate
- Spatial planning regarding environmental criteria (EIA, EIS, SEA)
- Environmental auditing (ECOcheck, EMAS, ISO 14001, etc.)
- Consultation and support of communities at creating environmental standards
- Environmental surveys
- Environmental monitoring, project and programme evaluation
- Public participation in EIA-projects
- Consulting on EU funded programmes (INTERREG, URBAN, Structural and Cohesion Funds etc.)
Project management
- Concept development, topic placement, project sketches
- Building and maintenance of an actor and partner network
- Elaboration of project proposals
- Application and supervision of research programmes; particularly EU funded projects (INTERREG, URBAN, Structural and Cohesion Funds etc.)
- Project monitoring and controlling according to EU criteria
- Cross border cooperation and conflict management
Research
- Planning, implementation and management of research projects
- General environmental studies
- Empirical social research
- Feasibility studies
- Master plans
- Forecast studies
- Handling of emission balances and registers
- Verifying, testing, evaluation and distribution of environmental data
- Elaboration of consulting studies, expertises and surveys
- Publishing of research results
- Main research activities:
- Air quality (climate protection, Kyoto, particulate matter, ozone, NEC, air pollution modles and pollutant reduction, etc.)
- Energy (energy registers, alternating energy use, strategies)
- Housing (social criterias, know-how transfer, empirical social research, and housing research)
Conference and Event Management
- Planning, organisation and execution of conferences
- Customized seminars, trainings and workshops
- Conference marketing with ECO-design
- Professional quality assurance
- Professional follow up activities of conferences including network support
- Press relations
- Supervision and hosting of international working groups and seminars
Environmental Information and software services
- Web applications and online services
- Computerized calculations and evaluations of environmental data
- Environmental databases
- Public information platforms
- Visualisation and simulation of environmental data
- Hosting of geographic information systems like arc-info
- Computerized forecast models
- Consultation on electronic environmental information systems
- Environmental monitoring
Environmental Business Services
- SWOT-analysis and environmental audits
- Economic and sustainability checks, eco-balances, environmental audits
- Environmental and sustainability reports
- Consultation, concept development and optimization of environmental management systems
- Procedure analyses (material and energy flows)
- Environmental consulting and optimization on industrial sites
- Consultation on environmental regulatory procedures
- Conduction of technical surveys, opinion polls and evaluations
- Energy analyses, energy optimization for sustainable energy use (Enhancement of financial structures in producing companies)
- Environmental forecasts
- Certification in cooperation with TÜV-Bayern according EMAS, ISO 14001, ISO 9000