Environmental technology promotion: projects

Since environmental technology promotion began in the fall of 1997, the FOEN has supported numerous pilot and demonstration projects in various areas of the environment, such as water, wastewater, waste and recycling, air pollution control, and noise abatement.

As part of the measures to strengthen the resource efficiency and competitiveness of the Swiss economy, funding is provided to Swiss firms for their participation in key international environmental conventions and various other activities. The Swiss network for the improvement of resource efficiency in enterprises, known as Reffnet.ch, which was recently founded by order of the federal government, has been supported since 2014.

Every 5 years, the FOEN provides the Federal Assembly with a report on the impact of environmental technology promotion on behalf of the Federal Council.

ARAMIS database

All projects and their details are recorded in ARAMIS, the federal research database. They can be retrieved by searching in the "project search" field using keywords or the abbreviation "UTF".

ARAMIS: Project search

Projects examples

Reffnet.ch - Capacity building and consultancy for greater efficiency: Project number UTF 572.01.18 Reffnet 2.0 (Schweizer Netzwerk zur Verbesserung der Ressourceneffizienz in Unternehmen Phase 2)
Swisswoodhouse - Timber construction as a contribution to the 2000 Watt Society: Project number UTF 241.32.07 Entwicklung eines Gebäudekonzepts für die 2000-Watt-Gesellschaft unter dem Namen SWISSWOODHOUSE
Urban Mining - Environmental innovation: metal recycling: Project number UTF 458.14.13 Schlackenaufbereitungsanlage ZAV Recycling AG (Schlackenaufbereitung zur stofflichen Verwertung von Metallen)
Green facades - Environmental innovation: biodiversity: Project number UTF 397.31.11 Façades végétalisées (Façades végétalisées écologiques à support poreux)

These and further examples can be found in the "environment" magazine issue on the topic of innovation (available in german and french).

Magazin «umwelt» 2/2016 - Innovationen für Mensch und Umwelt

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