Activities 2012:

• Medicines for Africa
• Moving towards sustainable water management
• Opportunities and criteria for a sustainability label for consumers
• Valorization of Biodiversity

Activities 2011:

• Geoengineering
• Postal Services and Modern Information and Communication Technologies
• Synthetic Biology

Activities 2010:

• Application potential of remote sensing for developing countries
• Electric mobility concepts and their significance f. economy,society,environment
• Load-Following Capability of German Nuclear Power Plants
• Modern power grids as key element in a sustainable supply of energy
• Organic farming and biomass production
• Supply of raw materials for high-tech german industries
• Sustainability and Parliaments: Survey and Perspectives RIO +20
• The future of the automotive industry
• White Biotechnology

Activities 2009:

• Electronic petitioning and modernisation of petitioning systems in Europe
• Future potentials and strategies of traditional industries in Germany
• How can research contribute to solving the problem of world food?
• Reproductive medicine: Scientific technical developments, consequences and gener
• Technical Options for Managing the CO₂ Cycle

Activities 2008:

• Hazards and Vulnerability in Modern Societies: Large-Scale Outage of Electricity
• International competitiveness and EU State Aid Policy - Nanoelectronics
• Pharmacological and Technical Interventions for Improving Performance
• Regulations for access to the information society
• Renewable energy sources to secure the base load in electricity supply –
• Status and condition of clinical research in Germany

Activities 2007:

• Barriers to the establishment of new key technologies
• Biomedic innovations and clinical research - Competition and regulation
• Innovations in medical technology – Challenges for research-, Health care
• Opportunities and prospects for assistive technology in the workplace
• Status quo and perspectives of the military use of unmanned platforms

Activities 2006:

• CO2 capture and storage at power stations
• eLearning for children and elderly people
• Energy storage - state and perspectives
• Gene doping
• Internet communication in and with developing countries – chances for dev
• Opportunities and challenges facing for new energy crops
• Public electronic petitions and civil participation
• Transgenic seeds in developing countries
• Ubiquitous computing

Activities 2005:

• Academic Spin-offs in eastern and western germany and conditions for their succe
• Biobanks for human medical research and application
• Brain research
• Individualised Medicine
• Industrial conversion of biomass
• Options for action to strengthen the international competitiveness of research-
• Potential and Prospects for applications of bionics

Activities 2004:

• eLearning in research, teaching and further education in Germany
• Future trends in tourism
• Modern agricultural techniques and methods of production – economic and
• Pharmacogenetics
• Prospects for low-CO2- and pollutant emissions transportation

Activities 2003:

• Demand-oriented innovation policy
• Green genetic engineering – transgenic plants of the 2nd and 3rd generati
• Internet and Democracy - Analysis of network-based communication from cultural
• Reducing land utilisation - goals, measures, impacts
• Working in future - structures and trends in industrial work