The BMBF funding priority »SURE« is application-oriented research. Project teams from science, civil society, business, politics and administration work together to develop practical solutions for more sustainable and resilient cities and regions in Southeast Asia and China.

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Build4People

Sustainable urban transformation
Energy and resource-efficient building
Integrated urban neighbourhood development
Promotion of urban quality of life
Urban greening and urban climate
Environmentally friendly behaviour and sustainable lifestyles

CHARMS

Energy efficient society
Sustainable utilisation concepts for historic wooden houses
Increase of indoor comfort
Improvement of air quality
Urban quality of life

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Sustainable supply and waste infrastructure
Social and environmentally sustainable technologies
Conceptual and technical synergies
Resource-efficiency
Urban-regional cooperation
Sustainable urban-rural development
Implementation processes

FloodAdaptVN

Earth observation, mapping and analysis of nature and infrastructure
Modelling and scenario development of flood events
Ecosystem-based disaster risk reduction
Strengthening climate resilience
»FRAME« information system for risk-informed planning
Adaptive and sustainable urban development

GreenCityLabHuế

Strengthening climate resilience
Modelling of nature-based solutions and blue-green infrastructure
Participation, co-learning and co-creation
Sustainable urban transformation
Heat adaptation and air quality improvement
Improving the urban quality of life

IMECOGIP

Strategic planning of »green infrastructure«
Nature-based solutions
Sustainable urban development
Climate protection and adaptation
Knowledge transfer into planning practice

LIRLAP

Integrated urban development and sustainable neighbourhoods
Urban quality of life
Environmentally friendly behaviour and sustainable living
Strategic risk reduction of informal settlements
Improving socio-economic vulnerability
Participatory urban development
Transferability of resilient urban planning

MYrisk

Integrative, sustainable risk management
Concepts of multiple risk prevention
Culturally adapted risk prevention
Protection of personal documents
Securing of critical infrastructure
»Build back better« strategies

PolyUrbanWaters

Water-sensitive transformation of urban spaces
Sustainable water management
Efficient municipal services of general interest
Resilience to droughts and floods
Reliable drinking water and sanitation supply
Urban quality of life

URA

Strategic planning and governance tools
Integrated territorial development
Strengthening urban-rural relations
Strengthening circular development
Urban-rural material flows, socio-spatial practices and migration
Urban-rural landscape typologies and ecosystem services

News

Research Update 14 – Research and Planning in Sam Neua

The PolyUrbanWaters research team with members from Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Germany conducted extensive research in Sam Neua with the…

Announcement: FloodAdaptVN back in Thua Thien Huê

The FloodAdaptVN consortium will meet with all project partners and local stakeholders in the last week of July. The project…

Our Events

5th World Planning Schools Congress and 16th Asian Planning Schools Association Congress 2022

FloodAdaptVN, IMECOGIP, PolyUrbanWaters, SURE Facilitation and Synthesis Research Project

The three research projects FloodAdaptVN, IMECOGIP and PolyUrbanWaters as well as the SURE Facilitation and Synthesis Research project will host a parallel session on the topic...

SURE at the AESOP Congress 2022

SURE Facilitation & Synthesis Research Project

Mai Ahmed will give a presentation on the topic “Unknown knowns: Knowledge mining for sustainable transformation research and practice” at the AESOP Congress in Tartu, Estonia on 27 July 2022 on behalf of the SURE Facilitation & Synthesis Research project.

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