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NEW 2018-01-22: New Initiative and Project 2018 – Empowering Rural Communities (ERC)

A new initiative aimed at developing all aspects of rural community life and ensuring the sustainability of each community. Read the PDF...

NEW 2018, Jan: New Election of the Board of Directors (2017)

Chairman:
Thomas Schellhorn

Board Member:
Holger von Dewitz

Treasurer:
Marco Perschke

Managing Director:
Waldemar Hänsel

Director of the Research Centre:
Prof. Dr. Nasir El Bassam

International Secretary:
Marcia Schlichting

NEW 2018, Jan: N. El Bassam (IFEED) – Appointments Organizations

Vice Chairman: Association of Climate Protection Agency, Hildesheim-Peine, Germany
www.ksa-hildesheim-peine.de (German only)

Chairperson, WCRE, World Council for Renewable Energy
www.wcre.org

Scientific Advisory Board, Federal Association of Regenerative Mobility
www.brm-ev.de

President: International Council of Sustainable Agriculture for Food, Energy and the Industry (ICSA)

NEW 2016-01-14: Latest Project Report of Integrated Energy Settlement Wierthe, Germany

Read the actual project report about Integrated Energy Settlement Wierthe, an exemplary project to establish a sustainable ecosystem
Read the project report in PDF format!

NEW 2015-10-08: JetBlue und TERRA reveal blue potatoe farm and produce garden at Terminal 5 of New York's JFK Airport

An innovative experiment in urban farming and airport sustainability
Read the press release in PDF format.

NEW 2015-01-25: IFEED book used for university course in California

Dr. El Bassam’s book, Distributed Renewable Energies for Off-Grid Communities, will be used as a course book in the Winter Quarter 2015 at the Santa Clara University School of engineering. The course is one of the required core classes for the Interdisciplinary Certificate in Frugal Innovation. We congratulate Prof. Greg Smestad for using this informative book in his class.
For more information, visit his website.

NEW 2015-01-24: IFEED organized a training course for 7 Iraqui researchers

Special training program on Renewable Energy Framework and Capacity Building in Developing Countries initiated and coordinated by IFEED, at Solar Center Mecklenburg-Pomerania, Wietow, Germany. IFEED organized a training course for 7 researchers of the Ministry of Science and Technology (MoST), Baghdad, Iraq in the period from 30 November – 11 December 2014. The training course could be performed with substantial financial and logistical aid of the US Civilian Research and Development Foundation (CRDF Global), Arlington, Virginia, USA with its office in Amman, Jordan.
Read more in PDF format.

Miscellaneous

Solar oasis - Desert into Garden

Food, water and electricity out of the desert – that is the vision of the International Research Centre for Renewable Energy e.V. (IFEED). This should be possible through an intelligent utilization of renewable energies. We use the heat process which occurs in solar projects to make inhospitable regions liveable. The catchword is "Solar Oases". Document in PDF format...

Potential of Bioenergy

An IFEED paper examines impact of bioenergy on food security, food sovereignty, and bioenergy in relation to food prices, poverty and hunger to find out a possible answer to the vexed question - could bioenergy be a total disaster for poor and starving people or could it generate livelihood and sustainable development to have better access to food. This paper is part of the "Resource Management towards Sustainable Agriculture and Development" book, published by Agrobios International, India 2010. Document in PDF format...