2012|13 Annual Report Fraunhofer IGB

39 professionally dismantled and recycled. A certain measure of “compensation” for the green spaces lost to the new build- ings on the campus was the setting up of nesting and winter- ing aids for insects, to be followed by the sowing of meadow ﬂowers in spring 2013. The institutes’ efforts to operate in a more healthy and resource-saving fashion were rounded off by a “regional week” in the Piccante staff restaurant. A jury made up of institute management representatives and the sustainability workgroup awarded prizes to the submitters of the best ideas on the Action Day. Fraunhofer “House of Sustainability” In the 2012 Science Year “Project Earth: Our Future”, the Ger- man Federal Government called for society to debate our communal life, our economic activities and environmental protection. A graphic illustration of this was provided by the Fraunhofer IGB together with 22 other Fraunhofer facilities at their joint booth “House of Sustainability” at the Hanover Fair in April 2012. Whether the innovative water infrastruc- ture concept DEUS 21, a skin model for testing cosmetics as an alternative to animal testing or photocatalytic surfaces for chemical degradation – these constitute only a few of the cur- rent research activities that are paving the way for a more sus- tainable form of living. Further exhibits, such as the recovery of nutrients from wastewater, the conversion of organic resi- dues into fertilizer and the energetic utilization of waste bio- mass, demonstrated the spectrum of sustainability-oriented technologies developed at the Fraunhofer IGB. The story continues The many impulses from our employees, coupled with the Sustainability Network project to publish guidelines on sus- tainability reporting that was launched in June 2012, inspire us to take our work ever further. Under the aegis of Fraunhofer headquarters and Fraunhofer UMSICHT, the Fraunhofer IGB is using its experiences with the ﬁrst sustainability report at the Fraunhofer IZS to produce a code of practice plus a training concept for Fraunhofer-wide sustainability reporting, based on the internationally recognized Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) standard. www.nachhaltigkeit.fraunhofer.de www.stuttgart.fraunhofer.de 2 3

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