International Partnerships for Sustainable Innovations

With the "CLIENT II - International Partnerships for Sustainable Innovations" funding initiative, the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) is promoting demand-oriented research collaborations with selected emerging and developing countries. The international joint projects are developing climate, energy, environmental and resource solutions that will help to address concrete challenges in the partner countries. With their innovative and sustainable solution approaches, each CLIENT II project impacts several Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at once. With a total of up to 150 million euros, the development of technologies, products, services and system solutions is promoted in seven subject areas. These are then inspected on-site in practical tests. The cooperation between German and international partners from the academic and professional worlds enables solutions that are adapted to local conditions, making them marketable. This approach strengthens the competitive position of Germany and the participating partner countries. Globally, CLIENT II is making a direct contribution to the mitigation of environmental degradation, the restoration of already degraded environmental processes and the sustainable management of natural resources.

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CLIENT II at a glance

SUFACHAIN: project workshop in Tashkent, Uzbekistan

On 25th and 26th April 2024, scientists, entrepreneurs and representatives of civil society organisations from Germany and Central Asia participated in the SUFACHAIN project workshop at the Tashkent Institute of Irrigation and Agricultural Mechanization Engineers Institute (TIIAME), Uzbekistan.

Level-Up: research project enters next phase

After an extended period of thorough preparations and diligent application processes, the innovative Level-Up research and development project is now finally set to begin construction of the Bioenergy Park in Ghana. Supported by the Tübingen-based company Novis, the site has been successfully prepared by the project team and the initial concrete foundations for the facility have been poured. This progress opens a new chapter in the international collaboration between the two project partners to create a practical educational and research facility in the fields of Renewable Energy and Circular Economy.

Podiumsdiskussion auf Midterm-Konferenz © EnaTex

EnaTex: German-Indonesian conference on energy and sustainability in the textile industry

At the EnaTex mid-term conference in Bandung (Indonesia) in October 2023, partners took stock of the project's progress.

RIESGOS 2.0: Policy Brief published at the end of the project

The RIESGOS 2.0 project has come to an end. The project team developed a demonstrator for a web-based multi-risk information system. The results have now been published in a policy brief.

StratOre: Field trip to Indonesia and research activities

The StratOre project aims to improve the mining processing chain of ore deposits in Indonesia by developing innovative concepts for efficient and sustainable extraction of critical metals such as nickel, cobalt, scandium, and bismuth, silver, antimony, indium, tellurium. Between April and May 2023, researchers from the Helmholtz Institute Freiberg for Resource Technology (HIF), along with project partners from the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR), successfully completed a field trip to Indonesia to meet the Indonesian project partners and to visit the project’s two study areas.

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Events

Here you will find the current dates for CLIENT II joint projects, including networking events and workshops as well as information on relevant external events in the seven subject areas. You can find more information on the location, registration process or background under the respective events. Past events and informational material can be found in the event archive.

Media library

In the media library you will find all publications and documentations of the collaborative projects and CLIENT II products. Use the filters in "publications" to quickly get the information you need. You can also sort the individual files by type and author for a better overview. All media are available free of charge and are open to the public. In case of doubt, please contact the authors for publication and further use.

Beiträge zur globalen Nachhaltigkeitsagenda

Contributions to the global sustainability agenda

CLIENT II helps manage global challenges and contributes considerably to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). With their innovative and sustainable solution approaches, each CLIENT II project impacts several SDGs at once. Here you can learn about the CLIENT II project contributions to the SDGs and the cross-sectoral and cross-thematic relevance of CLIENT II.