diff --git a/dune/gfe/rigidbodymotion.hh b/dune/gfe/rigidbodymotion.hh
index 052bfed2e69361cbb29cefad6297de47d5c8f332..9a5820f800d31b87326ed510bea8ca502b5e0133 100644
--- a/dune/gfe/rigidbodymotion.hh
+++ b/dune/gfe/rigidbodymotion.hh
@@ -245,9 +245,64 @@ public:
 
     /** \brief Project tangent vector of R^n onto the tangent space */
     EmbeddedTangentVector projectOntoTangentSpace(const EmbeddedTangentVector& v) const {
-        DUNE_THROW(Dune::NotImplemented, "!");
+        EmbeddedTangentVector result;
+
+        // translation part
+        for (int i=0; i<N; i++)
+          result[i] = v[i];
+
+        // rotation part
+        typename Rotation<T,N>::EmbeddedTangentVector rotV;
+        for (int i=0; i<Rotation<T,N>::embeddedDim; i++)
+            rotV[i] = v[i+N];
+
+        rotV = q.projectOntoTangentSpace(rotV);
+
+        for (int i=0; i<Rotation<T,N>::embeddedDim; i++)
+          result[i+N] = rotV[i];
+
+        return result;
     }
 
+    /** \brief Project tangent vector of R^n onto the normal space space */
+    EmbeddedTangentVector projectOntoNormalSpace(const EmbeddedTangentVector& v) const {
+
+        EmbeddedTangentVector result;
+
+        // translation part
+        for (int i=0; i<N; i++)
+          result[i] = v[i];
+
+        // rotation part
+        T sp = 0;
+        for (int i=0; i<Rotation<T,N>::embeddedDim; i++)
+          sp += v[i+N] * q[i];
+
+        for (int i=0; i<Rotation<T,N>::embeddedDim; i++)
+          result[i+N] = sp * q[i];
+
+        return result;
+    }
+
+    /** \brief The Weingarten map */
+    EmbeddedTangentVector weingarten(const EmbeddedTangentVector& z, const EmbeddedTangentVector& v) const {
+
+        EmbeddedTangentVector result;
+
+        // translation part: nothing, the space is flat
+        for (int i=0; i<N; i++)
+          result[i] = 0;
+
+        // rotation part
+        T sp = 0;
+        for (int i=0; i<Rotation<T,N>::embeddedDim; i++)
+          sp += v[i+N] * q[i];
+
+        for (int i=0; i<Rotation<T,N>::embeddedDim; i++)
+          result[i+N] = -sp * z[i+N];
+
+        return result;
+    }
 
     /** \brief Compute an orthonormal basis of the tangent space of SE(3).
 
diff --git a/dune/gfe/unitvector.hh b/dune/gfe/unitvector.hh
index e20e343c4db0a79ffe1ebc46d516a25b076c9fe0..a64902d1583a26c1adbc641b84c599d94c37e0d8 100644
--- a/dune/gfe/unitvector.hh
+++ b/dune/gfe/unitvector.hh
@@ -335,6 +335,36 @@ public:
         return result;
     }
 
+    /** \brief Project tangent vector of R^n onto the normal space space */
+    EmbeddedTangentVector projectOntoNormalSpace(const EmbeddedTangentVector& v) const {
+
+        EmbeddedTangentVector result;
+
+        T sp = 0;
+        for (int i=0; i<N; i++)
+          sp += v[i] * data_[i];
+
+        for (int i=0; i<N; i++)
+          result[i] = sp * data_[i];
+
+        return result;
+    }
+
+    /** \brief The Weingarten map */
+    EmbeddedTangentVector weingarten(const EmbeddedTangentVector& z, const EmbeddedTangentVector& v) const {
+
+        EmbeddedTangentVector result;
+
+        T sp = 0;
+        for (int i=0; i<N; i++)
+          sp += v[i] * data_[i];
+
+        for (int i=0; i<N; i++)
+          result[i] = -sp * z[i];
+
+        return result;
+    }
+
     /** \brief The global coordinates, if you really want them */
     const CoordinateType& globalCoordinates() const {
         return data_;