Welcome to the IIP 
|
Head |
Head |
Deputy Director DFIU |
Deputy Director DFIU
|
Institute for Industrial Production (IIP)
Campus West, building 06.33 Phone: Fax: +49 721 608-44682 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
Chairs at the IIP
|
|
_rdax_98.png)
Das IIP gratuliert Elena Vollmer, who successfully completed her doctoral examination on „Towards Automatic Thermography-based Leak Detection in District Heating Systems“ on February 12th, 2026.
On the evening of December 10, 2025, the Bioeconomy Innovation Award 2025 took place at the State Gallery in Stuttgart. Minister Peter Hauk (Ministry of Food, Rural Affairs, and Consumer Protection, Baden-Württemberg (MLR)) honored five companies that are actively contributing to the transformation. Just a few meters away, at the Ministry of the Interior, the second network meeting of the “Initiatives for the Further Development of the Leading Region for Sustainable Bioeconomy in Baden-Württemberg” began the following morning. The BioCyclesRN project was on-site and presented its current progress in this context. During the status presentations and discussion rounds, seven funded projects exchanged information about their objectives, results, and next steps.
Highlights of the meeting included ideas for bioeconomy monitoring from Fraunhofer ISI, workshops on the new EU bioeconomy strategy and the further development of the “Leading Region Initiatives” program, and information on current funding measures from the MLR.
On November 25, 2025, the workshop “Residual Material Potentials – Building Bridges Between Agriculture & Industry” took place at the KLIMA ARENA in Sinsheim as part of the BioCyclesRN project. The workshop was organized by the IIP in cooperation with the Green Industry Cluster of the City of Mannheim.
The aim of the event was to bring together key stakeholders from agriculture and industry and to align possible agricultural production programs as well as by-product and residual material streams with the needs of industry.
In an initial matching process, starting points for potential material flow collaborations were identified and discussed. The workshop marked the beginning of further networking activities and provided important impulses for the BioCyclesRN project.
The IIP congratulates Sandra Huster, who successfully completed her doctoral examination on „Modeling the Demand and Supply of Reconditioned Electric Vehicle Batteries under Consideration of Stakeholder Interests“ on November 18th, 2025.
The IIP congratulates Katharina Eberhardt, who completed successfully her doctoral examination on "Strengthening Resilience for Critical Supply Chain Networks: Strategic Optimization and Decision Support“ on November 11th, 2025.
On Tuesday, 16 September 2025, the IIP went on an institute outing around Geigersberg in Durlach. With good weather and wind, the institute team could admire the giant sequoias in the forest. The tour lasted more than four hours and ended at Carls Wirtshaus, where food and drink were plentiful.
The IIP congratulates Wenxuan Hu, who completed successfully his doctoral examination on „Influence of climate change and extreme weather events on intermittent renewable power generation and electricity demandn“ on July 24th, 2025.
On June 5, 2025, the Green Industry Cluster held its ConnectGreen networking event on the grounds of the former BUGA in Mannheim. As part of the event, the IIP organized a workshop with the City of Mannheim to discuss opportunities and challenges in an industrial bioeconomy for regional companies. The focus was on how waste materials from industry and agriculture can be used sustainably to close regional material cycles. The event also provided valuable input for an ongoing seminar paper at the IIP concerning sustainable value chains in the Rhine-Neckar metropolitan region. Based on the workshop results and AI-supported data analysis, the BioCyclesRN project, funded by the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Food, Rural Affairs, and Consumer Protection (MLR), is developing practical solutions to strengthen the circular bioeconomy in the region.