Sustainable Products & Material Flows

Katharina Hurst

Research Assistant

Special Expertise

Main research areas:

Circular Economy
Sustainable consumption and products

Topics:

Textiles, ICT, circular procurement
Conflicting goals of a circular economy
Circular finance
Consumption change

Methods:

Stakeholder consultations
Expert interviews
Transdisciplinary sustainability research

Key projects

Scientific support and monitoring of the National Circular Economy Strategy NKWS
Development of methodological principles and working aids for climate protection and circular economy aspects in public procurement practice
Modelling ecological and economic impacts of Circular Economy in Germany

Language Skills

English
French

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Katharina Hurst

Sustainable Products & Material Flows
Research Assistant
Freiburg
+49 761 45295-271
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Resource and product policy

Review study and support to evaluation and impact assessment for ecodesign and EU energy labelling for the product group “household dishwashers”

05/27/2024

The Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR) is the cornerstone of the European Commission’s approach to more environmentally sustainable and circular products. Under ESPR, specific ecodesign measures for different product categories will be addressd through delegated act
Consumption and sufficiency

Further development of the product portfolio of the Blue Angel ecolabel - framework project 2023

10/02/2023

The aim of the project is to further develop the product portfolio of the Blue Angel eco-label with a focus on information and communication technologies (ICT). A special feature of the project is the development of a study on the refurbishment of ICT products (AP1). In addition, the existing procu
Sustainable production and consumption

Steering and steadiness of the stakeholder process and support in the development and implementation of a national circular economy strategy

02/28/2023

The Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection (BMVU) is developing a national circular economy strategy. In this project, the Öko-Institut and its partners (Wuppertal Institute and ifok) support the strategy development by accompanying and sta
Circular Economy

Scientific support and monitoring of the National Circular Economy Strategy

02/01/2023

The aim and task of the project is to scientifically support the process of developing and updating a National Circular Economy Strategy (NKWS) for a resource-conserving, sustainable circular economy and to enrich it with contributions to the discussion and further inputs. To this end, proposals ar
Circular Economy

Model Germany - Circular Economy - Modelling ecological and economic impacts of Circular Economy in Germany

08/01/2022

In its coalition agreement, the German government has set itself the goal of developing a new integrated circular economy strategy. The aim of this study is to describe the ecological and economic impacts of a comprehensive circular economy in Germany. The consequences of previously selected circul
Procurement

Development of methodological principles and working aids for climate protection and circular economy aspects in public procurement practice

12/13/2021

The aim of the research project is to develop specific support for procurers in order to make their procurement practices more climate-friendly and/or more circular economy-oriented. The background to this is the new legal regulations on environmentally friendly procurement in the Closed Substance

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Recent projects

Review study and support to evaluation and impact assessment for ecodesign and EU energy labelling for the product group “household dishwashers”

Further development of the product portfolio of the Blue Angel ecolabel - framework project 2023

Steering and steadiness of the stakeholder process and support in the development and implementation of a national circular economy strategy

Scientific support and monitoring of the National Circular Economy Strategy

Model Germany - Circular Economy - Modelling ecological and economic impacts of Circular Economy in Germany

Development of methodological principles and working aids for climate protection and circular economy aspects in public procurement practice

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Recent projects

Review study and support to evaluation and impact assessment for ecodesign and EU energy labelling for the product group “household dishwashers”

Further development of the product portfolio of the Blue Angel ecolabel - framework project 2023

Steering and steadiness of the stakeholder process and support in the development and implementation of a national circular economy strategy

Scientific support and monitoring of the National Circular Economy Strategy

Model Germany - Circular Economy - Modelling ecological and economic impacts of Circular Economy in Germany

Development of methodological principles and working aids for climate protection and circular economy aspects in public procurement practice

Read more

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