Project websites
This collaborative project is funded by the Federal Ministry of Research,
Technology, and Space (BMFTR) (project period: May 2026–January 2029,
grant number 02WIL1794).
MIMEP (“minimally invasive micro-energy piles”) is funded by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (grant number 03EN6071B, 2026–2029). The project aims to develop two novel micro-energy piles with dual thermal and mechanical functionality.
International Innovation Network for the Development of Cost- and
Environmentally Efficient Seasonal Thermal Energy Storages.
HORIZON EUROPE project – funded by the European Union Emissions Trading
System Innovation Fund (Grant Agreement ID 101136100).
RECOIN is a project funded by the European Commission within the Horizon
2020 research and innovation programme (Grant Agreement No. 731117).
Completed projects
The joint project SpeicherCity was funded by the Federal Ministry of
Education and Research (BMBF) (project period: July 2022–June 2025,
funding reference: 03G0911).
STYGOS was funded in cooperation with the German Centre for Integrative
Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig via the MLU|BioDivFund –
MLU Support Fund for Integrative Biodiversity Research in Saxony-Anhalt
(project period: January 2023–December 2024).
Tools and data
Aquifer characterisation
■ Aquifer analogues of Herten and Descalvado – High resolution realisations of Herten (Germany) and Descalvado (Brazil) analogue
Near-surface geothermal energy
■ Matlab-Scripts – Matlab-Scripts to our book Thermal Use of Shallow Groundwater
GIS4GEOLOGY – QGIS Plug-In
The QGIS extension GIS4Geology is a tool that uses basic geological input data to create geological profile sections, which can then be drawn and digitised. – Download
Geospatial Data Analysis
■ QGIS Package – Multithreading-ready Inverse Distance Weighting (IDW) method
GIS_MODFLOW – Import / Export of geospatial data into MODFLOW
Smoothing Algorithm
Recommendations
■ Python graph gallery – This website displays hundreds of charts, always providing the reproducible python codeManagement Natural Ressources
■ mo2geo – A multidimensional, modular, open source, object-oriented geological modelling tool