Advisory Committee

The advisory committee of the "Social ecological research" programme provides advice to the BMBF concerning the thematic and structural shape of the funding programme and is significantly involved in the development of new research methods and criteria.

The funding programme "Social ecological research" breaks new ground in project funding and social, ecological and economic issues are investigated by combining social and natural scientific methods in an unusual way.

This approach requires new methods of topic search as well as new criteria of evaluation, communication and quality management.
The advisory committee was established to fulfil these tasks. It consults the BMBF concerning the thematic and structural shape of the funding programme and is significantly involved in the development of new research methods and criteria.

Members of the advisory committee:

Prof. Dr. Georges Fülgraff
(Chairman of the advisory committee) 

Prof. Dr. Werner Konold
(Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Institute for Landscape Management)

Dr. Gudrun Linne
(Hans-Böckler-Stiftung, Div. Research Funding)

Prof. Dr. Uwe Schneidewind
(President of the Carl von Ossietzky University, Oldenburg)

Prof. Dr. Eckard Minx
(Daimler-Chrysler AG, Div. Engineering and Society)

Ulrike Schell
(consumer advice centre in North Rhine Westfalia)

Prof. Dr. Stefan Wrobel
(Fraunhofer-Institute for Autonomous Intelligent Systems [AiS])

Dr. Angelika Zahrnt
(Member of the German Council for Sustainable Development (RNE) and Honorary Chairwoman of BUND (German branch of Friends of the Earth))