Project

Practical innovation approaches and development paths for a contemporary policy for sustainable development

The joint project INNOVA – "Practical innovation approaches and development paths for a contemporary policy for sustainable development" aims to provide a framework for innovative governance and administrative action that makes it possible to adequately address current and future challenges for environmental and sustainability policy and to achieve political and societal goals. The aim of the project is initially the identification and evaluation of promising approaches for innovative administrative action and, in a second step, their experimental implementation, i.e. the creation of an experimental setting in which employees can transfer the potential of these approaches into their own practice and learn. The focus is therefore on (administrative) actions and work routines Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU) and its subordinate agencies as well as the corresponding procedures, instruments and structures. Employee development is an important facet of organizational development. Therefore, it seems important to us to also consider the organizational culture and to support the breaking up of "mindsets".

  • Determination of needs in environmental administration: Identification of individual and organizational capabilities that should be acquired or developed in order to be able to shape contemporary (transformative) environmental and sustainability policy.
  • Identification and evaluation of promising approaches for innovative administrative action
  • Identification of facilitating factors and obstacles for innovative and transformative administrative action
  • Creation of an experimental space in which the staff of the ministry and the agencies can transfer the potential of these approaches into their own practice and learn from them
  • Opening up "mindsets" in environmental administration
  • Consolidation of newly tested or acquired thought patterns, behaviors, methods or processes

  • Literature analysis
  • Review of international practices of administrative innovations (especially in the field of environment and sustainability)
  • Stakeholder analysis
  • Guided interviews with experts and stakeholders
  • Organizational development
  • Agile methods
  • Design thinking (project experimental space)

Duration

5.2021-5.2024

Clients

Umweltbundesamt