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Grazing black and red young cattle
Grazing black and red young cattle

Deliverable on innovations for sustainable livestock farming

As a contractor to the German Federal Office for Agriculture and Food in the European project "Sustainable Livestock Systems Transition and Evidence Platform for Upgrading Policies (STEP UP)", I was the main author of a Deliverable on technical innovations to make livestock farming more sustainable.

https://horizon-stepup.eu/

Soybeans on a wooden spoon

New publication on the sustainability of biopharmaceuticals and meat alternatives

I contributed to two case studies for the Monitoring of the German Bioeconomy:

Wydra, S., Reiss, T., Buehrlen, B., & Wang, M. (2025). Monitoring Innovations in the Bioeconomy—Insights from Case Studies for Alternative Meat, Bio-Based Surfactants, Biopharmaceuticals, AI in Regenerative Agriculture. Fraunhofer-Institut für System- und Innovationsforschung ISI. https://doi.org/10.24406/publica-4551
A syringe on yellow and green background

Case study on the sustainability of biopharmaceuticals for Bioeconomy Monitoring Report

Together with my colleagues of Fraunhofer ISI, I contributed with a case study on economic, environmental and social aspects of biopharmaceuticals to the German Bioeconomy Monitoring Report 2024:

Beck-O´Brien, M., Bringezu, S., Banse, M., Barrelet, J., Bezama, A., Bösch, M., Brüning, S., Bührlen, B., Cabezas, A., Cyffka, K.-F., Dzene, I., Fehrenbach, H., Gordillo Vera, F., Helander, H., Henke, J., Hennenberg, K., Hinz, R., Iost, S., Jordan, M., … Zinke, C. (2024). Monitoring the German Bioeconomy: Status, performance, trends and implications for sustainable development (Center for Environmental Systems Research (CESR), Ed.). Center for Environmental  Systems Research (CESR), University of Kassel. https://dx.doi.org/doi:10.17170/kobra-2024111510679
Picture of various pills

A bit back to the roots

How many years have passed since I was able to make a contribution to an AIDS conference! But this year I had the chance to analyze data from a clinical study and present the results on a poster.

And I learned a lot about R during this undertaking! A whole world of statistics and more.

Make research more responsible to societies' needs

I am participating in the Social Lab Health of the EU NewHoRRIzon project. A first workshop took place in Frankfurt/Main, Germany, in June, and the second one in Milano, Italy, in November 2018. The aim is to develop ways how research (research policy, agenda setting, researchers) and society as a whole and stakeholder groups (users of research, patients etc.) can interact more efficiently in order to make research more responsive to the needs of these groups and its results more useful. We are testing our ideas in small projects.

This work is voluntary. Inspiration by Dante (see picture), italian design following Leonardo da Vinci in Milano, and interesting participants are compensation enough.

Expert for the evaluation of research and innovation proposals

Organizer: European Commission, DG RTD

Date: 2018-09-10 - 2018-09-13

Location: Brussels, Belgium

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