• Environmental technology
• Environmental research / Nature protection
• Environmental communication
• International activities
  

Here the regularly revised guidelines are divided into 9 special fields:

• environmentally friendly applications and procedures, energy technology,
• architecture and building and construction industry,
• material stream management and emission reduction,
• applied environmental research,
• nature protection,
• environmentally friendly use of land,
• scholarship programme,
• environmental communication and environmental management within small and medium sized enterprises,
• dissemination of environmental information,
• environmental education and environment and cultural assets.