Completed Projects

To date (June 2009) TAB has completed TA projects on the following topics under commission from the German Bundestag:

• Increased use of hydrogen
• SÄNGER Space Transport System
• Household waste management and waste prevention
• Groundwater protection and water supply
• Genome analysis - opportunities and risks of genetic diagnosis
• Biological safety in the use of genetic engineering
• New materials
• Multimedia
• Biotechnology and developing countries
• Environmental technology and economic development
• European Standardisation
• Preventive arms control in new technologies
• Genetic engineering, breeding and biodiversity
• Options to relieve the transport network and to shift road traffic to environmentally sounder means of traffic
• Research and technology policy for sustainable development
• Tourism - trends and impacts
• New materials for energy conservation and conversion
• Environment and health
• Cloning animals
• Fuel cell technology
• Elements of a Strategy for a Sustainable Energy Supply
• Consequences of environmental protection and resource conservation for education, qualification and employment
• Bioenergy sources and developing countries
• New Media and Culture
• Tourism in large nature reserves
• E-Commerce
• Trends in food supply and demand and their consequences - basic analyses
• Potentials for increasing food quality
• Potentials for the expansion of regional food supply
• Potentials for improving consumer information
• Nanotechnology
• Internet and Democracy - Analysis of network-based communication from cultural aspects
• Future trends in tourism
• Alternative crop plants and methods of cultivation
  Report on the TA-Project "Modern agrarian techniques and methods of production - economic and ecological potentials"
• Green genetic engineering - transgenic plants of the 2^nd and 3^rd generation
• Precision Agriculture
  2. Report on the TA Project "Modern agricultural techniques and methods of production - economic and ecological potentials"
• Reduction of land use rate – objectives, measures, impacts –
• Potential and prospects for application of bionics
• Prospects for low CO₂- and emission traffic - an overview of fuels and drive systems
• Biobanks for human medical research and application
• Industrial conversion of biomass
• Brain research
• Internet communication in and with developing countries: Opportunities for development co-operation - the example of Africa
• Opportunities and challenges facing new energy crops
• Gene doping
• Public electronic petitions and civil participation
• Transgenic seeds in developing countries – experience, challenges, perspectives
• Technologies in the context of Disability Compensation at the Workplace

Besides the TA projects listed above, TAB carries out monitoring activities and other projects under which numerous status reports have been submitted, e.g.:

• Technology acceptance and controversies about technology
• Gene therapy
• Information and communications technologies
• Export potential of technologies for the use of regenerative energy resources
• Renewable resources
• Status of and prospects for catalyst and enzyme technology
• Research and technology policy for sustainable development
• Fuel cell technology
• Medical technology
• Forum for science and technology
• Functional Food
• Xenotransplantation
• Technology-Assessment and diffusion research
• Genetic diagnostic - status and prospects
• Risk assessment and post-marketing monitoring of transgenic plants
• Thermonuclear fusion
• Biometric identification systems
• Measures for a sustainable energy supply in the field of mobility
• Technological trends in beverage packaging and their relevance for resource conservation and cycle economics
• Health and ecological aspects of mobile telecommunications and transmitters
  - scientific discourse, regulatory needs and public debate
• Technology acceptance and controversies about technology - third status report
• Possibilities for geothermal electricity generation in Germany
• Military use of space and possibilities for arms control in space
• Biometrics and identity documents. Performance, political context, legal considerations
• Preimplantation diagnostics. Practice and statutory regulation in seven selected countries
• Participative technology assessment and parliamentary policy advice
• Lighter-than-air technology - potentials for innovation and application
• Pharmacogenetics - Status report within the framework of monitoring Genetic Therapy, Genetic Diagnosis
• eLearning in the area of vocational training and further training
• eLearning in research, teaching and further education in germany
• Demand-oriented Innovation Policy
• Academic Spin-offs in Eastern and Western Germany and Conditions for their Success
• Working in future - structures and trends in industrial work
• eLearning for children and elderly people
• Options for action to strengthen the international competitiveness of research-intensive and knowledge-based branches in germany
• CO₂-Capture and Storage at Power Stations
• Media Use and eLearning in Schools
• Energy Storage Systems - Current Status and Outlook
• Individualised medicine and health care system

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