The Environmental Research Plan (UFOPLAN) is issued every year by the Federal Environment Ministry.
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The UFOPLAN 2014 which has just been announced reflects the thematic areas in which the Federal Environment Ministry will focus environmental research next year and which projects will actually be launched.
Key topics include the transformation of the energy system (Energiewende), climate protection, resource efficiency and soil protection. Some of the research projects are carried out by the Federal Environment Agency (UBA), although the great majority is commissioned by UBA to outside research institutions. Due to budget restrictions related to recent federal elections, the calls for proposals will be published gradually on the UBA web site and on the Federal Government's central Internet portal.
The UBA’s motto, For our environment (“Für Mensch und Umwelt”), sums up our mission pretty well, we feel. In this video we give an insight into our work.
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