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Flood events pose a growing threat to cities and municipalities. This year’s floods have once again shown how important innovative and sustainable flood protection measures are. With the Flood Prevention Award 2025, the DKKV, together with the Academy for Flood Protection, would like to honour municipalities that strengthen resilience against flooding through exemplary projects and […]

On Monday, DKKV was visited by a delegation from the Shandong Provincial Defence Mobilisation Office in China. The purpose of the visit to the office was to introduce the work of DKKV and to get to know disaster management in Germany better in general. Managing Director Dr Benni Thiebes presented the DKKV, the structures of […]

In a time characterised by increasing cyber threats, potential energy shortages and other crisis scenarios, efficient crisis and emergency management is becoming indispensable. The new KRITIS umbrella law sets new standards and requires comprehensive preparation and rapid response from everyone involved. The NeueStadt.org webinar will therefore focus on effective emergency communication, a 24-hour crisis exercise […]

After leading the German Climate Consortium for 12 years and enriching it in many ways, Marie-Luise Beck is now leaving the DKK. Her successor is Prof Dr Tilman Santarius, a social scientist by training and head of the Social-Ecological Transformation department at TU Berlin from 2016 to 2024. His research has so far focused on […]

Over 800 events centred on climate change were held at COP29. DKKV presents the most important topics! Land Use Land plays an important role in global greenhouse gas cycles. Land use activities can lead to the emission of such greenhouse gases into the atmosphere or to the removal of greenhouse gases from the atmosphere. The […]

We are delighted to announce this year’s winners! Leonie Eberhardt, graduate of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, receives the DKKV Promtional Award 2024 in the Bachelor’s category for her outstanding thesis entitled ‘Opportunities and challenges of the digitalisation of warning systems in disaster management’. Paula Gnielinski, a graduate of the University of Potsdam, took first place in […]

At the INFRAH Hackathon 2025, students from a wide range of disciplines can master creative and technical challenges in 24 hours in interdisciplinary teams of four to five people. The main focus is on heavy rain and flood protection and registration is still open until 2 November. Further information on the event and registration can […]

More than 800 events on climate change will take place at COP29. DKKV presents the most important topics! Innovation The Global Innovation Hub, launched in November 2021, aims to foster transformative innovation for a low-emission and climate-resilient future. The Hub expands the global innovation space by promoting solutions that support the climate-related Sustainable Development Goals […]

In order to analyse the interplay between water-intensive operational measures and sustainable regional water management, an anonymous survey was conducted as part of a doctoral study. This is primarily aimed at managers of all organisations and authorities that are active in the field of crisis management and decide on the use of such measures. It […]