Highlights from the INCREASE Project Meeting in Würzburg

11. Dec 2024 | General, Increase, Projects

The recent INCREASE Project Meeting held in Würzburg on November 25-26, 2024, brought together project partners from various institutions to discuss advancements and challenges in integrated disaster risk management (IDRM). Hosted by the University of Würzburg, the...

WaX impulse paper: New approaches and findings for a precautionary approach to drought and low water for municipal and regional practice

30. Sep 2024 | Aqua-X-Net, General

We are currently experiencing a very wet year – but the years 2018 to 2022 have repeatedly shown us how devastating prolonged periods of drought can be: Crop failures, water bodies drying up and falling groundwater levels. Even if the groundwater reservoirs have...

Field Trip Report from Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan – Opportunities for international cooperation in the field of Disaster Risk and Resilience Research

8. Aug 2024 | General, Increase

The report covers a scientific research trip of a German transdisciplinary delegation of disaster risk researchers to Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan in 2024. The main purpose was to identify natural hazards and disaster risk management structures and to compare them with...

ICREASE Projectmeeting in Berlin

22. Feb 2024 | Increase

In January, the German project partners of the INCREASE project came together for a two-day project meeting in Berlin. The focus of the first day was on mutual exchange and a presentation of the results of the individual work packages. On the second day, various...

INCREASE lessons to learn from earthquakes – Knowledge transfer workshop #3

21. Dec 2023 | Increase

This year it seemed that the earth is increasingly shaking in Middle East and surrounding regions. We experienced heavy disasters for example in Türkiye and Syria, Marocco, and Afghanistan. But also, countries like Iran, are highly risk prone to earthquakes. This...

Projectmeeting MYrisk in Bangkok

15. Nov 2023 | MYrisk

On the occasion of the SURE Status Seminar at the end of September, the MYrisk project partners met for a week in Bangkok. After a first MYrisk excursion to flood risks and the Klong canals in Bangkok, an exchange and introduction of the individual MYrisk project...