The economic area Augsburg with the registered office of KUMAS, the Competence Centre Augsburg-Swabia has officially been the leading region in Bavaria in matters of environmental technology since 1996. Innovative high performance in Environmental Technology is achieved and new environmental competence benchmarks are being set in A³ as trend-setting network of economy, science and administration. The network is supported by various pillars, the cooperation of experienced partner companies in the field of the environment, short routes to applied research and educational institutions as well as optimal start-up conditions for innovative start-up businesses. The importance of the site within Bavaria is also demonstrated by the settlement of the Bavarian State Office for the Environment in Augsburg.

A multitude of university and non-university research institutions are concentrated in the economic area Augsburg, which are of importance to the Environmental Technology sector. The environmental science centre bundles all environmentally relevant faculties of the University, and the University of Applied Sciences focuses on Environmental and Chemical Technology. The Material and Environmental Research Application Centre allows targeted technology transfer and shortened innovation cycles for companies. Practice-oriented research is also offered by the Bavarian Institute for Applied Environmental Research and Technology at the Augsburg site.

A³ is strong in innovative, modern technologies and environmentally efficient solutions, leading to cost savings, for instance as integrated components of production technology: Integrated technologies, like for instance increasing energy or material efficiency, or organisational issues during product development, purchasing or logistics. A³ offers multi-dimensional know-how for integrated Environmental Technologies at product level, system level and value adding level for intelligent concepts with a future!

From modern energy systems, innovative catalyst technology and waste recycling of world-wide model character up to drive concepts for the future: Leading companies with solutions from the field of Environmental Technology have chosen the economic site A³. Products and know-how from Augsburg are in world-wide demand and well established in the new growth markets in Asia.

Augsburg is the site of international environmental trade fairs and conventions like "RENEXPO", "Umwelt Innovativ" or the "Bayerischen Abfall- und Deponietage" or "Wassertage". The environmental focal point in A³ is also reflected in the commitment of local authorities in A³. Augsburg is a showcase city regarding environmental and resource protection and has been decorated in 2003 as winner of the most important German environmental prize, "Zukunftsfähige Kommune". Numerous innovative projects, like the "Environmental Mile", an industrial area reserved for the environment sector with various key player companies in close geographical proximity, the only Environmental Technology Founder Centre in Germany or the Environmental Medical Centre in the Augsburg Clinic, characterise the site.