From Research to Implementation Sustainable Urban Development in Southeast and East Asia December 16th and 17th 2025 - Bangkok, Thailand
SURE Conference: from Research to Implementation Sustainable Urban Development in Southeast and East Asia
December 16th and 17th 2025 – Bangkok, Thailand
The SURE funding priority conferenc united German and Southeast Asian partners and facilitated dialogue between the SURE collaborative projects. The event was a milestone in our joint journey, dedicated to the next phase of the SURE funding priority, the Implementation Phase.
The conference centred around products, methods and strategies of sustainable urban and peri-urban development, providing opportunities to showcase the projects, introduce new partners, share research goals, and receive valuable feedback from peers. During the conference days participants exchanged on implementation tools, established practices, and community-structure challenges, while forming collaboration alliances and outlining follow-up actions to ensure sustained engagement and progress.
Keynotes speakers at the conference:
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Kotchakorn Voraakhom, CEO and Founder LANDPROCESS and Porous CIty Network
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Srinivasa Popuri, Chief UN-Habitat Bangkok Programme Office
Project Presentations included the SURE projects PolyUrbanWaters, Myrisk, Build4People, CHARMS, IMECOGIP, GreenCityLabHue, FloodAdaptVN and SURE F&SR.
The SURE Atlas, a web-based tool for the interactive exploration of the multifaceted landscape of the SURE projects was launched at the conference and all the projects showcased their products, tools, and solutions during a collaborative market square session.
Accompanying the conference, we celebrated the book launch of the recently published book Navigating Urban Development – Learnings from East and Southeast Asia where all the SURE projects contributed to.
