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IfaS is an in-institute of Trier University, which in turn is a public corporation.

IfaS is dedicated to the task of analysing material and energy flows at regional and operational level, identifying optimisation potential and initiating implementation. The aim here is to increase added value while reducing environmental pollution. The area of biomass and cultural landscape development is primarily concerned with multi-use systems that combine ecosystem services with economically viable raw material production on an agriculturally used area. There is a wide range of experience in the simulation of runoff paths in the case of water erosion as well as in the planning and establishment of agroforestry systems on agricultural land.

In addition, there is extensive knowledge regarding the utilization of the products as well as the economic analysis of environmental services (e.g. biodiversity, biotope network, production-integrated compensation, erosion control). The project team is very experienced in knowledge exchange and transfer and supports farms with many years of expertise in the establishment and use of agroforest systems. Great importance is attached to communication between conventional and organic farms and to working with all partners.

Cooperation partner

Babes-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca (UBB) is a public higher education institution whose mission is to promote and support the development of specific cultural components in the local, regional, national and international community. It is one of the best Romanian institutions, consistently ranking among the top 5 in the national rankings in terms of academic and research performance. UBB considers scientific research as one of its main missions, as research is the main criterion for the evaluation of academic rank.

The Department of Taxonomy and Ecology has about 15 staff members who conduct research in terrestrial and aquatic ecology. The research focus of the department is conservation biology, with studies and research projects in the areas of cultural ecology, biogeography, land use and biodiversity in plants and invertebrates, habitat fragmentation, invasive species, and classical and modern taxonomy. In the last 5 years, the department has been involved in 3 national and 6 European research projects, 4 of which were carried out under the EU Sixth and Seventh Framework Programmes (coordinated by László Rákosy).

Cooperation partner

Babes-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca (UBB) is a public higher education institution whose mission is to promote and support the development of specific cultural components in the local, regional, national and international community. It is one of the best Romanian institutions, consistently ranking among the top 5 in the national rankings in terms of academic and research performance. UBB considers scientific research as one of its main missions, as research is the main criterion for the evaluation of academic rank.

The Department of Taxonomy and Ecology has about 15 staff members who conduct research in terrestrial and aquatic ecology. The research focus of the department is conservation biology, with studies and research projects in the areas of cultural ecology, biogeography, land use and biodiversity in plants and invertebrates, habitat fragmentation, invasive species, and classical and modern taxonomy. In the last 5 years, the department has been involved in 3 national and 6 European research projects, 4 of which were carried out under the EU Sixth and Seventh Framework Programmes (coordinated by László Rákosy).