BBSR – Bundesinstitut für Bau-, Stadt- und Raumforschung im Bundesamt für Bauwesen und Raumordnung

The Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Spatial Development (BBSR) is a departmental research institution under the portfolio of the Federal Ministry for Housing, Urban Development and Building (BMWSB). The Federal Ministry requests both research and development services as well as science-based services.
The scientific self-conception of the BBSR is characterised by the fact that the focus of research and advice is aimed at the interface between science and politics. As a result, the work of the BBSR is practice-based as well as interdisciplinary. It involves users of the knowledge across disciplines and, above all, it generates transfer knowledge. In doing so, it combines scientific competence that is available at short notice for ad hoc tasks for the department, but also for the government, with the ability to be able to process long-term tasks continually and on a research-basis.