Tasks at ZMT:
- Lead Programme Area 5 "Societal Impact"
- Lead Office for Knowledge Exchange (OKE)
- Director International Ocean Institute (IOI) Germany
- Supporting: Actor engagement, knowledge exchange, capacity development, technology transfer (patents, licenses, spin-offs, sponsoring, etc.), environmental education, development cooperation
- Acquisition of third-party funding in the field of knowledge and technology transfer
- Stakeholder publications: Strategy, conception, editing
- Science-Society-Policy events: Strategy, conception, implementation, facilitation
- Development of new transfer formats
- Research-based policy advice incl. the editorial of the ZMT Policy Brief Series
Project Lead:
- Higher Education Partnership for a Sustainable Blue Economy (STABLE) (EU-ASEAN, DAAD, Nuffic)
- Development and Implementation of Co-Design Training and Mentoring for Ocean Decade Actions (IOC/UNESCO and others)
- Partnership project to support the development of an information management strategy for the Nairobi Convention and partners (WIOGI-IMS) (GIZ/BMZ)
- Temporary Permanence (TemPe) – Innovative and flexible knowledge transfer of current socially relevant topics in permanent exhibitions (BMBF)
- PARticipatory monitoring, Assessment and visualization of climate change vulnerability in coastal WETlands of Peru for decision-making in Ecosystem-based adaptation (PARAWET-Peru) (GIZ/IKI)
- Western Indian Ocean Governance Exchange Network (WIOGEN) (GIZ/BMZ)