All Projects

IEA Task 4 CND – Climate Neutral Districts

Cities are at the heart of the climate transition: practical tools, data-driven methods, and participatory processes are being developed to enable the successful planning and implementation of climate-neutral, integrated urban districts.

IEA EBC Annex 96 – Grid Integrated Control of Buildings

IEA EBC Annex 96 explores how buildings can actively contribute to grid stability, efficiency, and decarbonisation of future energy systems through intelligent digital control.

RESET – 100% Renewable Energy Living Lab

RESET is the lead project in the ENSET real-world laboratory for 100% renewable energy. The aim is to develop innovative solutions for rural areas.

INDUFLEX – Enabling industrial flexiblity through a modular DSM-Toolbox

INDUFLEX develops a modular toolbox to harness industrial flexibility for cost-effective demand side management, enhancing grid stability and supporting climate goals.

CircularityOptimizer – URBAN MENUS Circularity China: Resilient Circularity Optimizer for Urban Systems

CircularityOptimizer develops a digital planning tool for resilient, circular urban systems. The goal is to establish circularity through collaboration, innovation, and sustainable, circular urban planning.

HeatITup – Digital twin for cost-optimized operation of solar thermal plants

The project develops an open-source software for the automated analysis of operating data from large-scale solar thermal plants based on a digital twin.

NUCLEUS – Sustainable Urban Clusters for Climate-Neutral, Efficient, and Eco-Friendly Urban Development

The exploratory project NUCLEUS investigates how Positive Energy Districts (PEDs) can function as nuclei for positive urban development using a former industrial site in Graz as a case study.

Rammed earth walls as energy storage – sustainability rethought

AnergieLeichtGemacht – Development of scalable implementation models for geothermal anergy networks to decarbonize the building sector

Decarb4SME+ – Building know-how for the twin transformation of manufacturing and industry – climate neutrality and digitalization

Decarb4SME+ supports SMEs with hands-on training to save energy, reduce CO₂ emissions, and leverage digital solutions – for greater climate protection, energy security, and competitiveness.