The Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning

Research projects

The Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Spatial Development (BBSR) supports federal politics with its projects. The projects deal with current issues of spatial planning, urban development as well as building and housing. They reveal the need for political action and provide scientifically sound bases with which political instruments and measures can be further developed.

You can find an overview of current and completed research projects on this page. You can use the search function to search for specific topics using key words.

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Implementing the Territorial Agenda 2030: “Circular Rural Regions” Type: Research Project

The concept of circular economy has taken a central role in the sustainable transformation of the economy and society both at the national and EU levels. The new pilot action, initiated by BMWSB and BBSR as part of the Territorial Agenda 2030, explores regional …

Programme: Region gestalten Status: Ongoing Started: Since November 2023

Interconnected areas at the Franco-German border– ACTAREA Workshops Type: Research Project

French-German cooperation has been boosted by the adoption of the Treaty of Aachen. However, many spatial planning challenges remain to be addressed. The workshops are designed to help overcome them by building a common understanding of the interconnections in two …

Programme: ESPON Status: Ongoing Started: Since October 2023

Transparency of land ownership in Europe Type: Research Project

Transparency of land ownership serves as a crucial basis for sustainable land policy. However, data availability, data quality and transparency are often deficient. The project therefore examines the causes and consequences of the divergent levels of data availability …

Programme: General Departmental Research Status: Ongoing Started: Since October 2023

Digital learning labs of the City of Oldenburg Type: Research Project

The research project tested approaches to make citizen participation even easier and more attractive. The City of Oldenburg focussed on expanding digital participation formats. Here, digital events and the improvement of digital skills among the population went hand in …

Programme: ExWoSt Status: Completed Project duration: December 2017 – March 2022

Field trial for building stock of high conservation value Type: Research Project

Programme: Urban development grants Status: Completed Project duration: January 2017 – December 2021

Future of the building stock – Development prospects for key historic buildings Type: Research Project

Within the funding districts of the Urban Development Support programme, the research project examined municipal’ approaches to historically valuable key buildings in urgent need of intervention. Feasibility studies conducted locally created new possibilities in terms …

Programme: Urban development grants Status: Completed Project duration: January 2018 – December 2021

Precautionary Risk Management in Regional Planning – Consolidation Type: Research Project

In this project, the risk management approach previously developed with the Cologne region was further developed and consolidated to ensure transferability to other types of regions. In two model regions, additional hazards and risks were addressed and a broader …

Programme: MORO Status: Completed Project duration: July 2016 – May 2020

Model building procedure for new residential buildings Type: Research Project

With the model building procedure, the GEG provides for a simplified verification procedure for certain residential buildings. The expert opinion defines the requirements under material law as well as the necessary characteristic values for the issuing of energy …

Programme: Future Building Status: Completed Project duration: February 2018 – March 2020

Field study on the evaluation of energy certificates for residential properties Type: Research Project

The introduction of the energy certificate is part of the implementation of the European Directive 2010/31/EU (formerly 2002/91/EC) on the overall efficiency of buildings. The energy certificate is also intended to make an important contribution to achieving climate …

Programme: Future Building Status: Completed Project duration: November 2018 – December 2021

Integration of immigrants – challenges for urban development Type: Research Project

In 15 case studies with different communal starting points and different basic conditions, in 2017 and 2018 the project collected communal strategies for dealing with current immigration development. The objective was to gain systematic knowledge about conditions and …

Programme: General Departmental Research Status: Completed Project duration: October 2016 – February 2021

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