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The exploratory study, conducted by Team HF PartG on behalf of the BBK as part of the EU-funded ISF project “Warning the Population,” examines the practical experiences, challenges, and potentials of Katastrophenschutz-Leuchttürme; in short Kat-Leuchttürme (engl.: “disaster protection lighthouses” which can be compared to Emergency Response Centers or Disaster Relief Centers) with regard to their […]

On Monday, April 28, 2025, at around 12:30 p.m. local time, a massive power outage affected large parts of Spain, Portugal, and southern France. The Spanish grid operator Red Eléctrica reported a sudden drop in electricity demand. In Portugal, the outage caused disruptions to telecommunications services and hospitals that relied on emergency power supplies, as […]

The European project EUMA (Creating a European Higher Education Network for Master’s Programmes in Disaster Risk Management) invites professionals in the field of civil protection and disaster management to participate in the specialised EUMA Workshop, taking place from 30 June to 1 July 2025 in Tallinn. Under the title “Geopolitical and Security Issues in Risk […]

The Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) has released new data on global disasters triggered by natural hazards in its latest report, Disasters in Numbers 2024. The report is based on the Emergency Events Database (EM-DAT), maintained by the University of Louvain since 1988. EM-DAT documents significant disasters worldwide and supports evidence-based […]

In Germany, a Koalitionsvertrag (coalition agreement) is a formal policy document negotiated between political parties forming a government. It outlines the legislative and political priorities for the upcoming term. These agreements are particularly relevant in parliamentary systems like Germany’s, where coalition governments are common. In the newly presented coalition agreement between the Social Democratic Party […]

On April 23, 2025, at 12:49 p.m. local time (9:49 UTC), an earthquake of magnitude Mw 6.2 struck the central Marmara Sea, approximately 60 km west of Istanbul. Just 13 minutes later, a second quake with a magnitude of Mw 5.3 occurred south of the city. The hypocenter of the main earthquake was located at […]

From February 19 to 21, 2025, the Sustainability Science Summit 2025 took place in Berlin under the motto “Advancing Sustainable Development”. The conference continued the series of German Future Earth Summits and was organized by the German Committee Future Earth (DKN). Its goal was to foster discussion and exchange on current scientific findings, research needs, […]

Science meets practice: Apply now for the DKKV Promotional Award 2025! The call for applications for the DKKV Promotional Award 2025 is now open! We are once again looking for outstanding bachelor’s and master’s theses related to disaster prevention and risk management! We are pleased that our institutional member ADAC Luftrettung is supporting the DKKV […]

Germany is experiencing an unprecedented rainfall deficit in spring 2025: The extremely dry weather conditions during the approximately ten weeks leading up to Easter resulted in the lowest precipitation levels ever recorded nationwide for the period from early February to mid-April since comprehensive weather records began in 1931. According to recent analyses by the German […]