Available resources are becoming increasingly scarce worldwide. The "Lusatia Factory of the Future" - a strong consortium of Saxon scientific institutions and numerous supporters from industry and the Lusatian region - is now set to offer forward-looking solutions and provide answers to pressing questions.

The project partners, consisting of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, the Technical Universities of Dresden and Freiberg, the Dresden University of Applied Sciences and the Zittau/Görlitz University of Applied Sciences, together with their supporters, are relying on strong cooperation and are proposing the large-scale research center "^{WE2T-Transfer}- Zukunftsfabrik Lausitz - Forschungs- und Transferzentrum für Wasser-, Energie- und Ernährungstechnologien" to the Federal Ministry of Education and Research. Interdisciplinary teams want to combine modern technologies and principles of the circular economy on a real-life scale. The aim is to drastically reduce the consumption of water, energy and usable land.

The concept for the large-scale research center in Lusatia, Saxony, which was submitted in the BMBF's "Knowledge creates prospects for the region!" competition under the leadership of Fraunhofer, envisages the establishment of 1,500 direct jobs with an annual budget of 170 million euros.