BAER - Bodensee/Lake Constance-Alpine Rhine Valley Energy- and Climate Region
Project Description
BAER is a multi-university research project in the fields of autonomic self-supply with renewable energies, sustainable urban design and decrease of regional climate- and enery risks, financed by the Interreg-programm - Internationale Bodenseehochschule - as well as by liechtenstein foundations and companies located in the partner countries. Initiated and leaded by the University of Liechtenstein the project consists of a team of University of St. Gallen, Hochschule Konstanz, Hochschule für Technik Rapperswil and Zürcher Hochschule für angewandte Wissenschaften Winterthur. The project is focused on resilient urban design and mobility, integration of renewable energies in residential areas and buildings, energy efficiency in existing buildings, solar mobility and stance on renewable energies of population. In 2013, the project will be finished, and it has already delivered important results for teaching and other research intentions.
Relevance to Liechtenstein
Das Projekt ist fokussiert auf resiliente Raumentwicklung und Mobilität, Integration erneuerbarer Energien in Siedlungen und Gebäuden, Energieeffizienz im Gebäudebestand, Solarmobilität und die Einstellung der Bevölkerung zu erneuerbaren Energien im Fürstentum Liechtenstein und der gesamten Energieregion Bodensee-Alpenrhein.
Scientific, Economic and Societal Impact
Development-oriented Goals
1. The goal of the project is to build on the research and teaching capacity of the Lake Constance universities and, to be sure, employ knowledge areas related to energy resource risks and climate change. As such, the project will strive for the development and growth of a research and communications network.
2. Throughout the course of the project, the public should be informed about project milestones, results and directions through goal-focused communications strategy.
3. Date and information collection should take place so as to enrich the specific knowledge areas and contribute to the overall capacity {of participants to reduce their environmental footprint}.
Content Goals
1. The framework of the project should allow for the Lake Constance region to explore technical, organizational and economic possibilities for shifting to dependence on renewable energy. This includes preliminary inquiry into the social, economic and ecological potential, benefits and costs represented by new economic, technological and institutional development possibilities. Special attention should be given to the alternatives for regional development, city development and architecture.
2. Further, regional and local effects/consequences of climate change in the Lake Constance region should be evaluated using the most robust science. Likewise, the effects of generating renewable energy shall be thoroughly investigated.
3. Moreover, the risks and possible effects of the global oil shortage, from oil dependency risks and climate change and from the advisable reduction of coal-supplied electricity for the Lake Constance region, would be modeled/ portrayed.
Further information: www.baernet.org
1. The goal of the project is to build on the research and teaching capacity of the Lake Constance universities and, to be sure, employ knowledge areas related to energy resource risks and climate change. As such, the project will strive for the development and growth of a research and communications network.
2. Throughout the course of the project, the public should be informed about project milestones, results and directions through goal-focused communications strategy.
3. Date and information collection should take place so as to enrich the specific knowledge areas and contribute to the overall capacity {of participants to reduce their environmental footprint}.
Content Goals
1. The framework of the project should allow for the Lake Constance region to explore technical, organizational and economic possibilities for shifting to dependence on renewable energy. This includes preliminary inquiry into the social, economic and ecological potential, benefits and costs represented by new economic, technological and institutional development possibilities. Special attention should be given to the alternatives for regional development, city development and architecture.
2. Further, regional and local effects/consequences of climate change in the Lake Constance region should be evaluated using the most robust science. Likewise, the effects of generating renewable energy shall be thoroughly investigated.
3. Moreover, the risks and possible effects of the global oil shortage, from oil dependency risks and climate change and from the advisable reduction of coal-supplied electricity for the Lake Constance region, would be modeled/ portrayed.
Further information: www.baernet.org
Participating Institutions
Chair in Business Administration, Banking and Financial Management
/ Partner
Institute of Architecture and Planning
/ Project Lead
Liechtensteinische Kraftwerke
/ Sponsor
Karl Mayer Stiftung
/ Sponsor
H.E.M. Stiftung
/ Sponsor
HSR Hochschule für Technik Rapperswil
/ Partner
Universität St. Gallen
/ Partner
HTWG Konstanz
/ Partner
Zürcher Hochschule für angewandte Wissenschaften Winterthur
/ Partner
Geschäftsstelle der Internationalen Bodensee-Hochschule
/ Sponsor
MBF Foundation
/ Sponsor
RHW-Stiftung
/ Sponsor
Sunways AG
/ Sponsor
