Call for Contributions: Sustainability Science Summit 2025
From 19 to 21 February 2025, the Advancing Sustainable Development: Sustainability Science Summit 2025, organised by the German Committee for Sustainability Research in Future Earth (DKN), will take place in Berlin. The event provides a forum for national and...
Launch of the GAR Special Report 2024 ‘Forensic Insights for Future Resilience: Learning from past disasters’
Yesterday, the UNDRR (United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction) presented the GAR Special Report 2024 online, which focuses on forensic insights from past disasters to improve future resilience. The report analyses recent catastrophic events such as Cyclone...
Call for participation: Test the new FloReST Smart App
As part of the FloReST research project, measures are being developed to improve the resilience of urban infrastructures to heavy rainfall events. The new FloReST smart app enables citizens to independently record and report problem areas in connection with flooding...
FLORIAN 2024 in less than four weeks
FLORIAN 2024, which takes place in Dresden from 10 to 12 October, begins in less than four weeks. Saxony’s Minister of the Interior Armin Schuster will open the trade fair for fire services, civil defence and disaster control, where 350 exhibitors from 15...