CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: Urban Resilience Intensive Training 2023

12. Apr 2023 | General

The Urban Resilience Intensive Training (URIT) 2023 welcomes policymakers, practitioners and researchers to Copenhagen between the 20th and 28th of June 2023. URIT aims at expanding the participants’ knowledge on policies, tools, strategic and action planning...

Reconstruction after heavy rain: Longest bridge in the history of THW

12. Apr 2023 | Flood 2021, Mitglieder

The German Federal Agency for Technical Relief (THW) is the only civilian organization which is able to build bridges. THW is currently building the longest bridge in the history of THW in Linnich, North Rhine-Westphalia.The bridge was damaged by the 2021 heavy rain...

What does the future hold? – Young Professionals offer workshop at “2nd National Expert Forum: Water extremes as a result of climate change”.

23. Mar 2023 | Young Professionals

On March 13 and 14, 2023, the “2nd National Expert Forum: Water Extremes as a Consequence of Climate Change” took place at the Klimahaus Bremerhaven. This year, the focus of the event was on extreme drought and aridity. For the event, our Young...

IPCC Synthesis Report on the Sixth Assessment Report published

21. Mar 2023 | General

Yesterday, the Synthesis Report (SYR) on the Sixth Assessment Report was released by the IPCC at a hybrid press conference. You can read the summary and main messages of the report for policy-making (SPM) here. The main messages cover the following areas: Current...

TV report on Prof. Martin Voss: How crisis-proof is Germany?

21. Mar 2023 | General

In a live interview with ZDF, Prof. Martin Voss (Disaster Research Center of the FU Berlin and DKKV board member) answered questions about, for a.o., societal resilience to crises and disasters, the state and future of German civil defense and disaster management, and...