IFEU - Institute for Energy and Environmental Research Heidelberg

Founded in 1978, the ifeu – Institut für Energie- und Umweltforschung Heidelberg – GmbH is an independent non-profit organisation for environmental research and consulting. IFEU has an extensive track record in areas such as waste management and packaging materials, transport &mobility, renewable energies and energy efficiency as well as food and bio-based systems. IFEU is especially renowned for its expertise (>20 years) in the field of life cycle assessment (LCA) and environmental impact assessment (EIA). The clients and sponsors of IFEU include governments, federal and federal-state ministries and associated authorities (e.g. the German Federal Environment Agency), the European Commission, national and international foundations, UN organisations (e.g. FAO, UNEP and UNFCCC), private enterprises, associations and environmental organisations. At European level, IFEU is involved in a number of projects on bio-based products such as BIOCORE, SUPRABIO (both looking into biorefineries) and OPTIMA. In all these projects, the IFEU department of ‘Sustainability of renewable energies and biobased systems‘ leads the workpackage on integrated sustainability assessment.

In PUFAchain IFEU will lead and perform WP9 on Integrated assessment of sustainability. Moreover, IFEU will participate in WP10 dissemination.