“…Parameterized multiscale problems where the parameters are optimized with respect to some userdefined quality criteria are of general interest in many physical, chemical, biomedical, or engineering applications. Examples, e.g., include optimal design of devises built from composed materials [8,7,19], optimization of reactive flow processes in porous media [37,25,58], or the design of meta-materials [17,54,50]. As a mathematical model for such constrained parameter optimization problems, we consider linear-quadratic parameter optimization, subject to the solution of a parameter-dependent elliptic variational multiscale problem.…”