Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU)

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Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU)

The FAU hosts the Chair of Computer Science 7, which conducts research and teaching on communication systems and networked technologies, as well as the Chair of Sustainability Transition Policy, which explores the policies needed for a transition to a climate-neutral future.

Co-Applicant
Consortium in the NFDI e. V.
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Reinhard German
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Reinhard German, Prof. Dr. Johann Lilliestam
Erlangen, Germany
https://www.cs7.tf.fau.eu/, https://www.transitionpolicy.rw.fau.de/

The Chair for Computer Networks and Communication Systems (CS7)

The CS7 research group at FAU focuses on the development of network protocols and architectures, analyzing and evaluating them through modeling, simulation, measurement, and testing. They specialize in quality-of-service (QoS) for ICT in energy systems, smart energy systems, and connected mobility. FAU CS7’s expertise includes agent-based simulation, co-simulation for energy systems, and flexibility modeling within smart energy.

Task Areas

FAU CS7 contributes to NFDI4Energy in the following task areas:

  • TA5: Simulation in interdisciplinary research, leading efforts in simulation middleware for the energy domain, and extending the existing topic-based publish-subscribe framework.
  • TA6: Use cases for community services, including conducting communication network simulation and implementing aggregation-based management of flexibility in distributed energy systems.

Involvement

FAU CS7 is not part of any other NFDI consortia besides NFDI4Energy.

The Chair for Sustainability Transition Policy

The Chair of Sustainability Transition Policy examines policies for transitioning to a climate-neutral future. It stands for interdisciplinary and empirical research, drawing from different backgrounds including transition studies, political science, economics, and other social sciences. We also bring this perspective to the consortium, where they focus on the ways that NFDI4Energy can support stronger empirical research on climate policies: by enabling energy models to include political and societal factors, and providing research data infrastructure, including datasets, methods, and an ontology for structuring climate policy data to improve interoperability.

Task Areas

The Chair of Sustainability Transition Policy is involved in providing structured data about climate and energy policies in the following Task Areas:

  • TA2: Within TA2, they dedicate substantial effort to analyzing policy documents. For their Climate Policy Atlas, they provide data and methods for recording information on policies in a machine-readable and granular way – a resource that is currently unavailable to researchers. For instance, they not only capture whether France had a feed-in tariff for electricity in 2012, but also the level of policy support for different installation sizes, regulations regarding eligibility, and further details. Their datasets to date include policy support for renewables and electric vehicles, regulations defining where specific infrastructures may be built, and national climate and renewable energy targets. They are also investigating the policy logics underlying different policy approaches and how these connect to broader attitudes towards sustainability transitions.
  • TA4: To support this work and enable other researchers to consistently map policies and their interrelations, the Chair is developing the Climate and Energy Policy Ontology (CEPO) as part of TA4. A large team contributes to these efforts, including three postdoctoral researchers, two doctoral researchers, and several master’s students engaged in data collection.

Involvement

Transition Policy is not part of any other NFDI consortia besides NFDI4Energy