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This Sustainability Guide for Research Processes is a catalogue of guiding questions that provides a framework on how to consider sustainability goals during a project's conceptual phase. The guidance prioritises limiting conditions that contribute to increased emissions and wasteful management of resources.
Striving for high quality research remains the top priority when planning and designing a project. Meeting sustainability standards throughout a project should not negatively affect knowledge production. To support research that is both excellent and held to high sustainability standards, it is possible to apply for increased funding for lower-emission and resource-saving research designs.
The questions listed below are intended as a source of inspiration and are offered as suggestions and examples; they are not exhaustive and applicants are not required to respond to them fully. Rather, the catalogue of guiding questions aims to support a differentiated and to some extent subject-specific process of weighing different approaches to working in a more resource-efficient and climate-friendly way, considering advantages and disadvantages as well as potentially conflicting objectives. Individuals are called upon to demonstrate creativity and develop new solutions in order to enable the community as a whole to arrive at new standards in research activity that take environmental sustainability into account.
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