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

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Almost two years after the ending of the CLIENT II project CAMaRSEC (2019-2023), the revised version of the handbook for green housing and healthy living is now being published by the Competence Centre for Sustainable Building in Vietnam (CCSB-VN) of the Hanoi University of Civil Engineering (HUCE), together with the project partners of the CAMaRSEC project.
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On 28 and 29 November 2024, more than 100 participants from Germany and the CLIENT partner countries came together in Berlin as part of the CLIENT Conference 2024. The varied programme of project contributions and panel discussions focused on the impact of 14 years of the CLIENT funding measure and ventured a look ahead to the future of international research and development cooperation for sustainable innovation.
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Several teams from the EnaTex project travelled to Indonesia in autumn 2024. The 'Textile Team' met for the fourth time with project partners Politeknik STTT Bandung and Harapan Kurnia in Bandung. The aim of the meeting was to exchange the latest research results on innovative technologies for minimal application and ultrasonic applications in textile finishing.
On-site measurements to determine material and energy flows were carried out at two sites of the EnaTex project partners PT Sri Rejeki Isman Tbk (SriTex) and PT Harapan Kurnia. The aim of the EnaTex work was to comprehensively record all relevant input and output flows in order to determine the efficiency and thus the fuel efficiency of the combustion systems analysed at the production sites.
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The BioProLat project aims to develop a sustainable and energy-saving process for the extraction of cobalt and nickel from laterite ores. The German-Brazilian collaborative project has developed a biohydrometallurgical process that combines innovative bioleaching and efficient metal recovery techniques.
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At the 29th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC COP 29) in Baku, Azerbaijan, the Institute for Biodiversity - Network e.V. (ibn) organised a side event entitled “Mitigation by Renewable Energy Solutions on industrial scales in Africa and Asia“.
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