Current Projects
We are currently working on five different projects - PepTechFruits, OptiCellu, Aquaponics, P3roLucas, and LignoTex. SocialLab2 and Transform2Bio have been recently completed.
PepTechFruits
- Our work package: Investigate consumers' perception of a novel food technology
- Partners: Forschungszentrum Jülich, RWTH Aachen, HHU Düsseldorf
- Staff at ILR: Jeanette Klink-Lehmann, Prof. Dr. Monika Hartmann
- Funding: Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine- Westphalia via the FOCUS FUND within the scope of the North Rhine-Westphalian strategy project BioSC
- Duration: 01.01.2024 – 31.12.2026
- Website: https://www.biosc.de/
OptiCellu
- Our work package: Investigate consumers' acceptance of cellulose-based products
- Partners: Forschungszentrum Jülich, RWTH Aachen, HHU Düsseldorf
- Staff at ILR: Janine Macht, Prof. Dr. Monika Hartmann
- Funding: Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine- Westphalia via the FOCUS FUND within the scope of the North Rhine-Westphalian strategy project BioSC
- Duration: 01.01.2024 – 31.12.2026
- Website: https://www.biosc.de/
Aquaponics
- Our work package: Marketing strategies for aquaponics products: Analysis of success factors
- Staff at ILR: Janine Macht, Jeanette Klink-Lehmann, Dr. Johannes Simons
- Funding: Ministerium für Umwelt, Landwirtschaft, Natur- und Verbraucherschutz des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen
- Duration: 01.09.2023 – 30.04.2024
P3roLucas
- Our work package: Investigate potential determinants of farmers’ adoption of lupin and bio-stimulants as a combined innovation.
- Partners: Forschungszentrum Jülich, RWTH Aachen
- Staff at ILR: Bodo Rehm, Jeanette Klink-Lehmann, Prof. Dr. Monika Hartmann
- Funding: Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine- Westphalia via the FOCUS FUND within the scope of the North Rhine-Westphalian strategy project BioSC
- Duration: 01.07.2022 – 30.06.2025
- Website: https://www.biosc.de/p3rolucas
LignoTex
- Our work package: Understand consumers‘ willingness to accept/pay for products created based on lignin
- Partners: Forschungszentrum Jülich, RWTH Aachen
- Staff at ILR: Janine Macht, Prof. Dr. Monika Hartmann
- Funding: Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine- Westphalia via the FOCUS FUND within the scope of the North Rhine-Westphalian strategy project BioSC
- Period: 01.07.2022 – 30.06.2025
- Website: https://www.biosc.de/lignoTex
Recently Completed Projects (2021-2023)
Projects that have been completed between 2021 and 2023 are shown below. For the projects SocialLab2, Transform2Bio, and MiRA further information on recent results can be seen.
SocialLab2
- Our work package: Investigate the societal acceptance of existing and future animal husbandry systems in a virtual supermarket
- Partners: Thünen-Institut, fachhochschule Südwestfalen, GAU Göttingen, TU München, HHU Düsseldorf, Instet
- Staff at ILR: Leonie Bach, Nina Weingarten, Kathrin Meyer, Prof. Dr. Monika Hartmann
- Funding: Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL) based on a decision of the Parliament of the Federal Republic of Germany via the Federal Office of Agriculture and Food (BLE) under the innovation support program
- Period: 01.06.2019 – 31.05.2023
- Website: https://www.sociallab-nutztiere.de/
Transform2Bio
- Our work package: Exploring citizens' and consumers perception and acceptance of the transition towards a bioeconomy in the Rheinische Revier
- Partners: Forschungszentrum Jülich, RWTH Aachen, University of Bonn (ILR & ZEF)
- Staff: Janine Macht, Jeanette Klink-Lehmann, Prof. Dr. Monika Hartmann
- Funding: FOCUS FUND im Rahmen des NRW-Strategieprojekt BioSC – Phase2: Fokussierung. Ministry of Culture and Science of North Rhine-Westphalia
- Period: 01.09.2019 – 31.12.2022
- Website: https://www.biosc.de/Transform2Bio_en
GeTie
- Aim: Development, evaluation and testing of a cross-stage communication system regarding animal welfare performance.
- Partners: 7 agricultural farms, EQAsce, Rheinischer Erzeugerring für Mastschweine (REMS), Companies ChainPoint & Veravis
- Staff: Ingo Birkle, Lena Große Streine, Dr. Johannes Simons, Prof. Dr. Monika Hartmann
- Funding: Europäischer Landwirtschaftsfonds für die Entwicklung des ländlichen Raumen (ELER)
- Period: 01.02.2020 – 31.01.2022
- Website: https://www.eqasce.de/projekte-getie/
MiRA
- Aim: Analyse economic prospects and constraints for MiRA development and use
- Partners: CASI, Spain; Solynta, Netherlands; IGZ, Germany; Newcastle University, United Kingdom; Scottish Agronomy Ltd., United Kingdom; Plant Response, Spain; Ohio State University, USA
- Staff: Ursula Ploll, Dr. Johannes Simons, Prof. Dr. Monika Hartmann
- Funding: European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and Innovation programme under grant agreement No 765290
- Period: 01.10.2018 - 30.11.2021
- Website: https://mira.ku.dk/
Strength2Food
- Aim: Improve the effectiveness of EU food quality schemes (FQS), public sector food procurement (PSFP) and to stimulate Short Food Supply Chains (SFSC) through research, innovation and demonstration activities
- Partners: 30-partner consortium representing 11 EU and 4 non-EU countries
- Staff: Kathrin Meyer, Dr. Ching-Hua Yeh, Prof. Dr. Monika Hartmann
- Funding: RIA - Research and Innovation action, European Kommission
- Period: 01.03.2016 – 28.02.2021
- Website: https://www.strength2food.eu/
Older Projects
USL
Aim: Identify the relevance of various protected goods in connection with livestock farming from the point of view of consumers and citizens, describe how consumers and citizens deal with conflicting goals and, based on this, provide information for decision-makers in ministries, farms and companies with regard to the further development of animal husbandry
Contact person: Jeanette Klink-Lehmann
Period: 01.07.2018 - 30.06.2020
SocialLab
Aim: Analysis of criticism of farm animal husbandry from various societal groups and identifying realistic ways how farm animal husbandry can be improved
Contact persons: Jeanette Klink-Lehmann & Dr. Johannes Simons
Period: 01.05.2015 – 31.01.2019
Chain Failure and Chain Goods in Sustainable Food Value Chains
Aim: Developing a theoretical framework to analyse food chains in order to find essential connecting points for a sustainable restructuring of the chain and deriving from that a reference model as a basis for a Dialog between science and economy to process the sector
Contact persons: Dr. Johannes Simons, Prof. Dr. Monika Hartmann
Period: 01.01.2016 – 31.12.2017
Nah_Gast
Aim: Initiation and dissemination of transformation processes for sustainable production and consumption in the out-of-home catering sector.
Contact persons: Dr. Johannes Simons, Prof. Dr. Nina Langen (TU Berlin)
Graswurzelbewegungen auf die Füße geschaut
Aim: Initiation and dissemination of transformation processes for sustainable production and consumption in the out-of-home catering sector.
Contact person: Dr. Gesa Maschkowski
Period: 01.05.2013 - 30.04.2014
Nachhaltigkeitsstudie Ernährung.NRW
Aim: Investigate how sustainability is implemented and communicated in the value chain of the food industry
Contact person: Jeanette Klink-Lehmann
Period: 01.01.2012 - 31.07.2014
Evaluierung des EU-Schulobstprogramms in NRW
Aim: Evaluate longer-term effects of the implementation of the EU School Fruit Scheme in NRW. The analysis focuses on the changes in the consumption behaviour of the participating children and parents with regard to fruit and vegetable consumption
Contact person: Prof. Dr. Monika Hartmann
Period: 01.05.2014 - 31.07.2015
Schulobst NRW
Aim: Analyse of effects ofthe "Schulobstprogramm" on children's dietary behaviour, including parental consumption behaviour and the distribution frequency of fruit and vegetable products.
Contact person: Prof. Dr. Monika Hartmann
Period: 01.06.2012 - 31.05.2014
Frucht macht Schule
Aim: In the 'Frucht macht Schule' project, the project partners work together over three years to optimise the current delivery system of the EU School Fruit Scheme in NRW
Contact person: Prof. Dr. Monika Hartmann
Period: 01.08.2011- 31.07.2014
Fin-Q.NRW
Aim: Investigate communication of SCR aspects in the meat value chain
Contact person: Dr. Johannes Simons
Vielfalt schmeckt
Aim: Promoting agrobiodiversity - i.e. the diversity of livestock and crops
Contact person: Dr. Johannes Simons
Period: 01.01.2012 - 01.01.2015
Marke NRW - Marktbildung für Produkte aus NRW
Aim: Strengthen the competitiveness of small and medium-sized producers of regional food by developing an innovative, holistic marketing concept for the NRW brand
Contact person: Dr. Johannes Simons
Period: 01.01.2012 - 01.01.2015
Multimethodische Bewertung von Schweinehaltungsverfahren durch Verbraucher anhand von Videos aus realen Schweineställen
Aim: Promoting agrobiodiversity - i.e. the diversity of livestock and crops
Contact person: Dr. Johannes Simons
Period: 01.09.2013 - 01.10.2014