Professional refurbishment has already been implemented primarily for electrical appliances (e.g. mobile phones, laptops). Professional refurbishment is also of interest for office furniture, as although it is generally designed to serve for a long time, it is often discarded after a short period of use. The RefurMO project is therefore investigating which framework conditions are required for the professional refurbishment of office furniture to extend the product life cycle and conserve resources.
The Institute for Sustainability and the Department of Consumer Science at the University of Applied Sciences Wiener Neustadt at the Campus Wieselburg, together with numerous research and industry partners, are researching the needs of potential members of energy communities as well as the requirements for communication interfaces in order to be able to integrate, for example, photovoltaic systems, battery storage and electric charging stations into an energy community. Further research topics concern the optimal planning of energy communities and their organizational forms.
State-of-the-art of potential primary and secondary measures for slow heat release appliances regarding effects on emissions and thermal efficiency
The active involvement of end users in further awareness raising is the key element of WP3. Interested house owners (n=100) are actively involved in measures and methods for the sustainable improvement of air quality and for optimizing the operation of their own heating system. A citizen science approach is chosen (end users collect data on their heating behavior themselves and then forward it to the project consortium), leading to increased end-user awareness.