Eig

environmental informatics group (eig) is a research institute at saarland state university for applied sciences (htw), located in saarbrücken, germany. the institute has a long history of environmental software applications, nowadays known under the terms environmental software systems (ess), environmental informatics, or short enviromatics. the first environmental informatics institute was founded at htw in 1986 and was amongst the first institutes of its kind world-wide. after changes in personnell and strategy, the institute has been re-established under the name eig in 1995 by prof. dr. reiner güttler and prof. dr. ralf denzer, both teaching in the informatics department of htw. in total, we have been involved in over 70 ess projects over the last 10 years, including projects for international bodies like the european commission and the united nations. we conduct applied as well as research projects and aim to foster technology transfer of new and innovative concepts from it in