Gerhard Bayer

Short biography

Education

• Studies of landscape ecology and landscape architecture at the University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna
• Training as energy consultant, courses A and F

Professional career

• Since 2000 researcher at OGUT
• Freelancer with the Austrian Association for Renewable Energy (bvee) in Vienna: compilation of a materials collection on renewable energy, analysis of EU directives for the promotion of renewable energy, formulation of suggestions for Elwog
• Employee at Büro freiland in Vienna: study on sewage disposal and flowing waters ecology
• Freelancer with the Austrian Institute for Regional Studies and Spatial Planning (ÖIR) in Vienna: environmental impact statements, sustainable regional development, environmental evaluation of EU support programmes
• Büro DI Knoll, bureau for landscape ecology and landscape architecture in Vienna: assessment of environmental impacts of building projects

Key activities

• Enlarged Europe:
  Studies on environmental technologies markets in CEE and SEE
  Information activities/networking with partner organisations in CEE
  Expertise/pilot projects on innovative environmental solutions in the new EU member states
• Head of various working groups within OGUT, such as the round table talk “export of Austrian environmental technologies”
• Energy efficiency and sustainable energy industry
• Implementation of pilot and demonstration projects in CEE and EU member states
• Guest lectures about environmental politics issues at Akademia Istrapolitana Nova (AINOVA) in Slovakia, energy savings contracting and organic waste management

Österreichische Gesellschaft
für Umwelt und Technik
Hollandstraße 10/46
A-1020 Wien
Tel +43.1.315 63 93
Fax +43.1.315 63 93-22
E-Mail office@oegut.at

Further Information