TERM Technologies for the Exploitation of the Resource Microalgae (TERM) Within the frame of the Climate Protection Concept of the City of Hamburg a demonstration plant (1 ha) for the outdoor production of microalgae was build in the project TERM. The demonstration plant is coupled with a gas combined heat and power plant of the E.on Hanse AG at Reitbrook (Hamburg). The aim of this demonstration plant is to test and upscale basic technologies to allow an efficient and economic - elimination of CO2 from flue gas and - production of high energetic microalgal biomass. Research and development work will be performed at the demonstration plan by national and international scientists. The R&D work focuses on the: 1. Optimization of the bioreactor design to obtain optimal growth and efficiency in the transfer of the primary energy (daylight) into biomass, 2. Optimization of the microalgae at the levels of the species, biomass composition and physiology, 3. Automatisation of the plant in order to allow an industrial scale production. Industrial partners of the project TERM are the E.on Hanse AG and a big heavy industry company. SSC Strategic Science Consult GmbH is coordinating and managing the project. The results obtained within TERM are pooled by the SSC GmbH and afterwards transferred to a new company for "Plant engineering and construction". For further information on the project and the possibilities to cooperate please contact Dr. Kerner (m.kerner@ssc-hamburg.de).