Cooperation and Partners

Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development
The Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development (IOER) situated in Dresden was founded 1st of January 1992 on the recommendation of the Science Council of the Federal Republic of Germany. It is a research facility financed jointly by the federal government and the state of Saxony, and has a staff of over one hundred.
 

​The IOER undertakes interdisciplinary research into the requirements for sustainable, environmentally compatible regional, urban, and landscape development. Institute researchers investigate interdependencies between land use and the natural environment, evaluate strategies, and develop approaches to sustainable spatial development in both the national context and on a European and international scale. Climate change and demographic change and their impact on future environmental and spatial development play a major role. The results of this research provide actors in politics and society with an important basis for planning and policy decisions. The IOER considers itself a partner for science and practice and an element in the European research with an international perspective.

Main research topics at the IOER:

• quality of the environment in towns, cities and regions;
• resource efficiency of settlement structures;
• environmental risks in urban and regional development;
• use, analysis, and visualization of geo data and remote sensing data for spatial science concerns.

More information concerning current research topics are available under: www.ioer.de.

How to find the way?
The institute is located at the Weberplatz east of the main campus of the TU Dresden. Starting at Fritz-Förster-Platz you can use the bus line 61 to Weißig and leave the bus at Zellescher Weg. The institute is located in a walking distance of 200 meters north of the bus stop. Just walk along Ackermannstraße into town direction and you will see the entrance of the institute at the Weberplatz.