Unconscious Sustainable” and how to use sustainable pillars to preserve the rich ethnic plurality, diversity of craft types and folk manifestations that remained through the popular culture and were spread by generations.

Tradable Energy Quotas (hereafter: TEQs) are the future! But what is it exactly? In short, TEQs are a framework for the process of trading in energy quotas by citizens, companies and local governments on a national scale. It enables countries to set a cap to the yearly carbon emissions.

The music market offers a huge variety of musical instruments with diverse features that enable making music for everybody. However, for older musicians, it is often difficult to find age-appropriate musical instruments. In spite of demographic changes music industry hasn‘t responded to the needs of that generation yet. Active music-making especially for older people would be of great therapeutic importance. But physical, psychological and social problems often prevent elderly from making music. In his thesis Gerhard has developed an age-appropriate musical instrument that guards against age-related problems and is easy to learn as well.

While the issues of the contemporary modes of production and consumption are getting more and more alarming, the attention of scholars and citizens alike is turning towards realistic alternatives. In my thesis I analyse two kinds of alternative consumption practices on a micro level, in a space that has been revived by such practices only in the recent years. I believe now is the time to seriously investigate any practices that show potential to overcome the current state and social relations produced by consumption as we know it today. My idea is a future idea because alternative conceptions of our relation to material and immaterial goods we use, need and desire are needed to open the possibilities of more inclusive societies with sustainable relation to the environments they dwell in. While we are far from a definite solution to societal, economic and ecological problems, my thesis presents a new angle in the debate about realistic alternatives to the current state.

Body Area networks are gaining increased importance, driven by new medical applications, miniaturization of sensors, reduction in the power consumption of integrated circuits and advances in wireless transmission techniques in the presence of obstacles and interference. This technology permits new ways of monitoring the patient and body functions which is an important factor to improve the patients’ welfare in a medical environment.

Final results leaded to important novel contributions to the subject, which have already been reported in international papers and conferences and awarded with the 1st prize of the Fraunhofer Portugal Challenge 2013.

Solve the conflict between urban nature and public street lighting by designing a new sustainable public street lighting system. The project includes local production of energy, LED lighting and dimming. Furthermore, it is the establishment of a cooperation between government, business, housing cooperations and home owners.  Currently, Nine is still working on the project and is  starting with serious steps towards investments from the municipality.