© Rolf Schulten
© Rolf Schulten
© Rolf Schulten
© Rolf Schulten
© Rolf Schulten
Borderstep Impact: Events
Exchanging ideas, networking, initiating processes
Borderstep Impact: Events
How can the transformation to sustainable economic processes and lifestyles succeed? What political, social and technical course must be set for this? This is what Borderstep researches as an independent and non-profit research institute. The major challenges facing our society – from climate change to energy efficiency – require scientifically sound solutions and sustainable strategies for action. The Borderstep Institute consistently orients its research toward this.
Our motto is “Science with impact!” That is why we strengthen and support people with vision and innovative ideas that make sustainability a practical reality. We do not research for the bookcase. That is why we make our knowledge from our studies and projects available to the public – also in the form of free event formats. With our Borderstep Impact formats, we want to exchange ideas, establish networks, initiate processes. Move the future together with us!
Borderstep Impact Forum
The half-day to one-day conference format Borderstep Impact Forum presents and discusses current Borderstep research results under a transformation-oriented guiding question. The format includes parallel workshops, plenary sessions, impulses, and lectures. Borderstep organizes the individual program items together with cooperation and project partners.
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Next Impact Forum 19 May 2025 | 12.30 – 21 h
The 20 Years Impact Agenda: Knowing what works!
Harnack House Conference Centre of the Max Planck Society, Ihnestr. 16-20, 14195 Berlin
Since 2005, the Borderstep Institute for Innovation and Sustainability has been researching the future as an independent, non-profit scientific organisation and investigating what is to come (innovation) and what will remain (sustainability).We want to use the accumulated knowledge from 20 years of impact research to develop “The 20 Year Impact Agenda” at the Borderstep Impact Forum 2025 together with cooperation partners and people interested in the future.
With this agenda, we will identify key topics and research questions for important fields of action for Germany’s sustainable transformation by 2045, by which time Germany aims to be climate-neutral. With the agenda, we will continue the innovation, entrepreneurship, digitalisation and sustainability research that we have been passionately pursuing for 20 years and continue to put it at the service of sustainable development.
• Beginning: from 12:30 h (Lunchbuffet)
• Impact Workshops: from 13:45 h
• Anniversary reception: 18 – 21 h
• More informationen can be found here
• Click here for the registration form
• Here you can find information on the conference venue & how to get there
• Conference language: German
Past Impact Forums
Impact Forum 2021: Innovating Our Common Future. As part of the ISPIM
Impact Forum 2019: Giving digitization a direction
Impact Forum 2017: Earn money and improve the world
Impact Forum 2012: Diffusion paths for sustainability innovations
Borderstep Impact Dialog
The dialog format aims to transfer Borderstep research into policy and practice. Borderstep discusses the data and findings from studies and projects with cooperation partners and implementation actors in a compact format of one to three hours. How do research results become social impact? What political decision-making processes are needed to achieve this? How can innovations and the promoters who drive them be supported?
- June 4, 2024: Discover the next ESG & Climate Champion: How can the climate protection an sustainability potential of start-ups be assessed?
More - December 15, 2023: Data Centre Heat Exchange with AI-Technologies.More
- November 13, 2023: Impact Business Models – Measure What Matters.More
- November 8, 2023: Workshop: How building automation works – presentation and discussion of a guideline.More
- May 25, 2023: Making climate protection investable for Start-ups. Launch of a free software solution for start-ups and their investors.More
- Januar 12, 2023: Waste heat utilisation from data centresMore
Dialog series: Strengthen Green Startups!
The dialog series: Strengthen Green Startups! aimed to provide knowledge about the framework conditions, the importance, the trends and the hurdles of green startups. The partner of the dialogue series was the German Startup Association.
The event format, which was funded by the German Federal Foundation for the Environment (DBU), supported initiatives to promote green startups in a target-group-oriented manner. From 2019 to 2021, Borderstep and the German Startup Association, together with cooperation and project partners, conducted a total of 12 dialogue events, spread across Germany.
