IFAS - Institute for Applied Material Flow Management (of Trier University of Applied Sciences)

The Institute for Applied Material Flow Management (IfaS) is a higher research institute of Trier University of Applied Sciences located at Environmental Campus Birkenfeld (ECB). IfaS was founded in 2001 thanks to the initiative of a few committed professors from the disciplines of Material Flow Management, Ecology, Business Management, Physics/Process Engineering and Communication/Ethics. The aim of IfaS is to promote the sustainable optimization of regional and operational material flows in specific and practice-oriented projects worldwide.

Nowadays, our interdisciplinary team includes seven professors, 30 members of staff and various interns and student assistants from the following specialisations amongst others:

Business management
Industrial engineering and management
Mechanical engineering
Process engineering
Energy management
Industrial ecology
Spatial and environmental planning
Forestry
Agriculture
Environmental law.