Project description: According to the RIS3 strategy for Thuringia, the research project is to be classified in the growth or research field "Sustainable Energy and Resource Use". This research project addresses the key objective III "Thuringia becomes an innovation leader for new materials, technologies and procedures for increasing resource efficiency, closed-loop material cycles and sustainable design".
The extraction and recycling of secondary raw materials are one of the significant challenges of the 21st century. Improved resource efficiency through urban mining, intelligent recycling, and substitution is an essential contribution to solving future raw material problems. On the part of the Bauhaus University Weimar, the Bauhaus-Institute for Infrastructure Solutions (b.is), with its focus on raw material extraction from sewage and waste, and the F.A. Finger Institute of Building Materials Science, with its focus on resource-conserving construction and use, are involved in the joint research project.