The EU-CHINA BRIDGE project consists of 16 leading universities, research institutes, companies and networks in energy, climate change and policy modelling, circularity research, and overall sustainable development.
Country: Germany
The Wuppertal Institute sees itself as a leading international think tank for sustainability research focused on impacts and practical application. The organisation's activities are centred on developing transformation processes aimed at shaping a climate-friendly and resource-efficient world.Building on the foundations of traditional scientific work, focused on individual disciplines, an interdisciplinary approach is taken to addressing sustainability problems. The Institute pursues science on a transdisciplinary basis: rather than being merely an observer, the scientific community plays an active part in the transformation processes. Transformative research (transition research) and work in real-world laboratories constitute the Institute's conceptual framework.
The Wuppertal Institute's research projects focus on the stakeholders who are actively involved on the ground and are usually conducted in close cooperation with them. The Institute sees itself as an intermediary between the worlds of science, industry and politics. Therefore, it takes the future application of its research into consideration in order to ensure that the findings are of great practical benefit to decision makers.All of the Institute's research projects are highly innovative. Its work is also concerned with analysing the effectiveness of innovations in regards to achieving the climate protection and resource efficiency goals. Innovations that facilitate systemic advances (next-level innovation) are of particular interest. They would appear to be essential to achieving the core Sustainable Development Goals in good time; however, they are often associated with intentional and sometimes unintentional structural changes.
Country: Greece
E3-Modelling is a société anonyme (S.A.) company, established as a knowledge-intensive consulting company spin-off. The company inherits staff, knowledge and software-modelling innovation of the laboratory E3MLab at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA).The company specialises in the delivery of consulting services based on large-scale empirical modelling of the nexus economy-energy-environment. The experience of its staff dates back to 1990 and includes internationally renowned milestones, such as the design, implementation and continuous operation of the PRIMES and GEM-E3 models. Since 1990, the consultants of E3-Modelling prepare and publish every 2-3 years a European energy and transport outlook in close cooperation with the European Commission and have supported its major impact assessment studies via the construction of detailed policy scenarios.
The team’s modelling and consulting experience is also serving numerous studies for European governments, professional associations, and large-scale companies in the energy domain. Their consultation expertise focuses on the Design and impact analysis of transition in the energy market and systems, both in the demand and supply of energy, and in the transport sector, towards green and climate-friendly structures and technologies. E3M assesses the transitions from economic, policy and implementation perspectives with emphasis on the functioning of system and markets and the impact of policy instruments on behaviours and market outcomes.
Country: Austria
The International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) is an international research institute that advances systems analysis and applies its research methods to identify policy solutions to reduce human footprints, enhance the resilience of natural and socioeconomic systems, and help achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. Building on almost fifty-years of experience in systems science, the IIASA Strategy 2021-2030 positions IIASA to be the primary destination for integrated systems solutions and policy insights to current, emerging, and novel global sustainability challenges, threats, and opportunities.
Country: United Kingdom
For more than a century, the University of Birmingham has been pursuing and sharing knowledge through outstanding teaching and world-leading research. We encourage and empower people to turn ideas into reality and make important things happen. Our research provides innovative solutions to the challenges we face in our city, our region and across the globe. For our community at the University of Birmingham, Sustainability is about using our available resources and living in a way today that provides the needs for us all to live a happy and healthy life, without preventing future generations' ability to do the same.
Country: Greece
The Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (ICCS) of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) was founded in 1992. The mission of ICCS is to support the deployment, the realisation and the growth of the research priorities of ECE mainly through seeking, pursuing and acquiring research funding via the competitive calls for research proposals that the European Commission had instigated.
The Decision Support Systems Lab / Energy Policy Unit (EPU-NTUA) operates within ICCS/NTUA and is a multidisciplinary scientific unit which provides academic training, carries out research and development projects, and offers management and decision support services across a wide range of complex business, socio-technical, and energy & climate policy/planning problems.
The E3MLab of ICCS/NTUA specializes in the construction and use of large-scale mathematical models covering the areas of Energy, the Economy and the Environment. Such models are used to make projections and analyse complex issues requiring system-wide consideration. Special emphasis is given to policy analysis and support.
Country: Greece
HOLISTIC is a dynamic consultancy firm in the fields of digital services, energy / environmental policy and planning, projects organization and management support. Moreover, HOLISTIC provides a wide range of marketing and communication services that can be conducted during and within a project’s lifecycle, under funding schemes such as Horizon 2020, Interreg Med and others. HOLISTIC comes from a team of executives who have long and extensive experience in the development of projects in these fields, they have the necessary know-how to undertake and execute complex projects of public, municipal and private organisations in the EU, while they have a considerable research and academic background in cutting-edge methodologies, systems and technologies, which allows detailed and well-documented studies to be carried out in the areas of expertise of the company.
Country: Germany
The University of Kassel sees itself as a university where openness, initiative, interdisciplinary and unconventional thinking are desired and encouraged. Its aim is to develop, review and implement ideas – even if they are not yet mainstream. Sustainability has always been deeply rooted in research and teaching at the University of Kassel as a profile-defining focus. Almost all departments and subject areas contribute to the sustainable development of society. As the university is also aware of its role model function for society, it is gradually developing itself further within its fields of action in accordance with the goals set in order to be a shaper of social change.
Country: China
With the motto of “Self-discipline and Social Commitment” and the spirit of “Actions Speak Louder Than Words”, Tsinghua University is dedicated to the well-being of Chinese society and to world development. As one of China’s most prestigious and influential universities, Tsinghua is committed to cultivating global citizens who will thrive in today’s world and become tomorrow’s leaders. Through the pursuit of education and research at the highest level of excellence, Tsinghua is developing innovative solutions that will help solve pressing problems in China and the world. THU will participate in the project through its Department of Electrical Engineering and Applied Electronic Technology, aiming at both international frontier basic research and major needs of Chinese national economic construction, EEA has tackled key problems scientifically in electrical and electrical engineering industries, and won 27 prizes of National Natural Science Award, National Science and Technology Progress Award and National Technological Invention Award.
The Department of Chemical Engineering of Tsinghua University was founded in 1946. It is a Tsinghua University "Double first-class" engineering discipline. In the latest international QS, USNews and ARWU discipline rankings, it ranks 13th, 1st and 3rd in the world, all of which are No. 1 in China. Based on the mainstream of chemical industry, the department is at the forefront of the discipline, including in reaction engineering, separation engineering, system engineering, nuclear chemical industry, biochemical industry and other topics.
Country: China
The Department of Earth System Science focuses on comprehensive and systematic Earth science research on global environmental change and sustainable development issues, through the combination of Tsinghua University's existing natural sciences and social sciences, engineering science and management science. Recent development direction of the discipline is to face the scientific issues urgently needed to be strengthened in China's global change research, and carry out research in five fields of Earth System Science.
Country: China
Renmin University of China is a comprehensive research-oriented university focusing on humanities and social sciences. It also offers a range of courses in the natural sciences, information technology and environmental sciences. The university’s overriding tasks have consistently been the pursuit of truth and progress, cultural transmission and educating the country’s future elites. RUC is an important base for training high-caliber professionals in the social sciences and humanities and houses a number of influential research centers and think tanks. The vision of RUC is reflected in our logo, which is composed of three “人” (ren), a Chinese character that can be translated into person, human or humanity. The logo stands for “people’s university,” “the spirit of humanism” and “a focus on the humanities and social sciences.” RUC’s vision is to become a world-class university that equips future leaders, produces cutting-edge research and promotes global academic exchange. With the support of a dedicated leadership, its students, faculty and staff, RUC continues to grow in influence as one of the most important trend-setters in Chinese higher education today.
Country: China
For around 120 years, SDU has been following its mission to "nurture talent for the world and seek prosperity for the nation" and living up to its motto of being "noble in spirit, endless in knowledge". The university has cultivated over 600,000 talented young people of various specialties and has been making significant contributions to the country and to regional economic and social development. Shandong University has developed by leaps and bounds in recent years. At present, 18 subjects have been listed in the top one percent of subjects in the Essential Science Indicators (ESI), an index showing the competitiveness of a subject published by the Institute for Scientific Information. In addition, five of the university’s subjects – chemistry, engineering, material sciences, clinical medicine, pharmacology and toxicology – were listed in the top 1‰ in the ESI rankings. SDU has also established cooperation with nearly 200 universities in more than 30 countries or regions.
Country: China
China National Coal Group Corporation (abbreviation as China Coal Group) is the key state-owned enterprise which is under the jurisdiction of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council. For the fourteenth Five-Year Plan and the coming period, China Coal Group will fully implement the new energy security strategy of “four revolutions and one cooperation”, focus on the implementation of the “peak carbon, carbon neutral” targets, and ensure national energy security, green and low-carbon transition, adhering to the development idea of “ the efficiency improvement of the current business, development of the new business and transformation of the enterprise”, and the development model of "two ways of joint operation". We build and improve the high-quality development industrial pattern with the coal industry as the cornerstone, the coal-based clean and efficient transformation and utilization industry and the comprehensive energy service industry as the two wings, and the strategic emerging industries such as sustainable energy as the important growth poles. Through the “three-step” strategy, we will build the world-class energy enterprise with complementary energy, green and low-carbon, innovative demonstration and modern governance by 2035.
As a newly established BIT institution, the Advanced Research Institute of Multidisciplinary Sciences (ARiMS, also the Faculty of Multidisciplinary Sciences) dedicates to promote and facilitate new frontiers of sciences and technologies. It relies on a crossdisciplinary approach, with a pursuance of creativity and excellence, to conduct cutting-edge researches and to offer unique, individualized graduate training. ARiMS has no departments, which eliminates artificial barriers between people working in different fields, and integrates scientists from diverse background all over the world. It fulfills its commitment to diversity and excellence in research and scholarship across boundaries.
Country: China
Based on the principle of resource sharing and complementary advantages, the laboratory actively carries out industry-university-research cooperation with high-tech enterprises and scientific research institutes. In June 2024, following the reorganization of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Department of Science and Technology, the laboratory was renamed the "Inner Mongolia Key Laboratory of Multilingual Artificial Intelligence Technology.". The director of the laboratory is Professor Fei Long. The predecessor of the laboratory was the "Inner Mongolia Key Laboratory of Mongolian Information Processing Technology," which was approved by the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Department of Science and Technology and established at Inner Mongolia University in 2007.
Country: China
Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT), located in Beijing and under the administration of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China, is a leading public university with a traditional focus on science and technology. Founded in 1940s, BIT has been a first-tier top research university in China. It is one of the first of 15 Chinese universities to run a graduate school, one of the first 15 universities to join 211 Project (Plan for the Revitalization of Education in the 21st Century in 1995), the 10th university to enter the 985 Project (Plan for Achieving the World-class Universities in 2000), and one of the 36 “Double First-class” Chinese Universities in 2017, classified in Category A. The School of Mechanical Engineering (SME), as one of the longest history, largest scale, and highest admission scores at BIT, is a national leader in mechanical engineering in China. With the motto of “virtue for scientific truth discovery and diligence for innovative engineering advancement”, the school is devoted to train professional talents of mechanical engineering for industrial constructions of China, having cultivated many outstanding alumni for the development of the Chinese economy and industry.
