The DIL is one of the three founding partners of ZERN and is responsible for the initial project in the grassland research area and the early-career research group “Micro- and Nanostructures of Food.” The DIL is also participating in the initial project in the livestock research area, with a focus on natural product chemistry. Additional projects involving the DIL have been added through the ZERN calls.
The University of Göttingen is one of ZERN’s three founding partners. It is involved in all three of ZERN’s initial projects. The early-career research group “Food Economics and Policy” is also based at the University of Göttingen, where it operates as a junior professorship. Through the ZERN calls, additional projects involving the University of Göttingen have been added.
The University of Veterinary Medicine in Hannover is one of the three founding partners of ZERN; it is responsible for the initial project in the livestock sector titled “Future-Oriented Pig Farming” and the early-career research group “Sustainable Livestock Farming.” Additional projects involving TiHo have also been added through the ZERN calls for proposals.
The Grassland Center is contributing scientific and practical expertise to the initial grassland project “Utilization of protein from green biomass”.
Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences is supporting the grassland project “Utilization of Protein from Green Biomass” and is responsible for the harvesting and post-harvesting aspects of the project. Additional projects involving the university have also been added through the ZERN calls.
Leibniz University Hannover is a partner in the crop production project “Adaptation Strategies for Crop Production in Lower Saxony” in the areas of soil science and carbon cycles. Additional projects involving LUH have also been added through the ZERN calls.
The University of Osnabrück is leading a work package in the Arable Farming subproject, where it is contributing its outstanding expertise in artificial intelligence for precision farming. Additional projects involving the University of Osnabrück have also been added through the ZERN calls.
The Thünen Institute is represented in ZERN by its two departments: the “Thünen Institute for Agricultural Technology (TI-AT)” and the “Thünen Institute for Wood Research (TI-HF).” Both are working on the subproject "Value-added material utilization of press residues from protein extraction from green biomass“ (abbreviated as ”Presswert").
The Centre for Sustainability Management (CSM) at the University of Lüneburg is a partner in the subproject "Identification of Food Pathways to Promote Legume Consumption," where it primarily investigates sustainable purchasing and consumption decisions and analyzes market dynamics that either promote or hinder sustainable consumption behavior.
Thanks to its many years of experience in interdisciplinary research and teaching on human eating behavior, as well as its research activities spanning the fields of nutrition science, psychology, education, and medicine, the Institute for Nutritional Psychology is a valuable partner and is directly involved in the consortium through one of our outreach projects, the “ZERN Future Talks.”
trafo:agrar provides support with its network and, above all, with its wide-ranging expertise in the field of transformation to ensure that the research results in the ZERN network are also applied in practice and that the knowledge gained is disseminated in a targeted manner.
The ZDIN supports the ZERN network by using the ZDIN's extensive network to provide information about new events or project calls. This provides the ZERN network with an important platform for greater visibility.
In order to bring the results and events of ZERN - especially in the nutrition context - to the right target group(s), ZEHN supports us with its expertise and network.
Thanks to its many years of experience in interdisciplinary research and teaching on human eating behaviour and its research activities between nutritional science, psychology, education and medicine, the Institute for Nutritional Psychology is a valuable partner and supports ZERN by organizing events.