Future research for clients
We would like to offer our clients the services that are of most use to them both now and in the future. For this reason, we investigate topics that build on our current areas of activity and are of key significance for shaping the long-term future of our clients.
The exploration of these issues boosts our orientational knowledge and also gives our employees the opportunity to work on topics close to their own hearts. The clients cover at least half of the cost of the research and BaslerFonds covers the rest.
The following ongoing and completed research projects carried out on behalf of clients illustrate the general direction of our work:
- Basis for protection objectives in relation to the handling of genetically modified organisms; commissioned by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)
- Biomass plantations in Switzerland: technologies, potential and effects. Commissioned by the Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN), the Swiss Federal Office of Energy (SFOE), the Verband Holzindustrie Schweiz (Association of the Swiss Timber Sector), Borregaard, Perlen and AEK Energie AG
- Coordination of clean-air policy and energy and climate policy. Commissioned by the Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN) and the Zentralschweizerischer Umweltschutzdirektoren-Konferenz (ZUDK) (“Conference of Environmental Directors of Central Switzerland”)
- Integrated water governance with adaptive capacity in Switzerland. Commissioned by the Swiss National Science Foundation, National Research Programme 61.
- The consequences of demographic change. Commissioned by the Canton of Aargau, the Bundesamt für Wohnungswesen (BWO) (Federal Housing Office) and the Federal Social Insurance Office (FSIO)
- Water Management Vision 2025. Commissioned by the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN)
- What’s driving us? Drives and fuels for the mobility of tomorrow. Commissioned by the Federal Roads Office (FEDRO).