IKEM's First Gender Equality Plan 2023-2025 strives to sustainably transform its organizational processes, structures and cultures to combat and reduce gender imbalances and inequalities in its research and work. The Plan establishes concrete objectives (based on a status quo assessment), and specific measures that will be implemented in the period of 2023 till 2025 to improve gender equality within IKEM and in the field of research and innovation in the climate transition. The Plan further establishes clear responsibilities for different activities and outlines timelines of the measures to be implemented, and for measuring progress and success.

On 56 pages, the annual report 2022 presents the central research projects, events and publications of the past year. The topics were diverse and ranged from the potential of social innovations for the energy transition, to the practical implementation of multimodal mobility solutions and the legal framework for the use of green ammonia, to municipal heat planning. The annual report focuses on the work of the 68 IKEM experts and the impact of IKEM.

Gaspreisdeckel, Gasumlage, Strompreisdeckel und der Versuch, auf den Ölpreis einzuwirken, haben eines gemeinsam: sie bekämpfen Symptome einer gescheiterten, national und fossil geprägten Energiepolitik, meint IKEM-Geschäftsführer Simon Schäfer-Stradowsky in seinem Standpunkt. Eine stabile und preiswerte Energieversorgung könne nur erreicht werden, wenn endlich strukturelle Reformen in Richtung einer koordinierten europäischen Energiewende angegangen werden.

Russia's invasion and climate change are forcing the EU to rethink the energy supply. The European Commission recently announced several new policies, including the REPowerEU program. This article in the German Wind Power Magazine examines whether the new efforts are in line with science-based goals to tackle the climate crisis.