Here you will find news about the SURE funding priority and the activities of the participating projects in Germany and Asia.
On 06 June 2024, the 5th day of the Build4People delegation trip “Urban sustainability best practices in Germany”, the main activity…
... was the title of the special session at the 59th ISOCARP Conference in Toronto at the beginning of October.…
Together with Prof. Dr Mathias Garschagen, Dr Barbara Demeterova, Liss Bethany and PhD student Lena Grobusch (all LMU Munich) as…
The SURE Facilitation and Synthesis Research (SURE FSR) team hosted a special track ‘Affecting the River of Knowledge in Sustainability:…
Gulam Mohiuddin, Build4People WP# 4 Research Associate and Prof. Dr Jan-Peter Mund, Build4People WP# 4 Leader, both from Eberswalde University…
On 4 July 2023, the Build4People representative, Dr. Michael Waibel, provided insights into green housing and healthy living – based,…
On 29 June 2023, the German Build4People team members virtually met for their bi-annual mid-term reflection and outlook discussion meeting.…
The project partner, the Impact Hub Phnom Penh, has created a new video clip which shows interviews with the participants,…
Thanks to a grant from the University of Hamburg Open Access Fund, a recent detailed analysis on Phnom Penh’s building system…
In the beginning of December 2022, two researchers of Fraunhofer IEE in Kassel visited Chiang Mai. One objective of their…
From April 26 to 28, the “German-Vietnamese Science Day” organized by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)…
On 28 February 2023, members of the so called Build4People Transition Team met to discuss the design of the…
As outcome of the Base Line Assessment and its strategic recommendation the local and provincial government in Sam Neua requested…
A short note on the topic of wood by Christine Richter (CHARMS) In July 2022 I went on a…
The FloodAdaptVN household survey started on 28 March 2023. Until mid/end April, the enumerator teams from HUSC and HUIS will…
To better understand specific impacts of floods on households in Hue as well as their adaptation strategies, the FloodAdaptVN project…
After two years of intensive cooperation between the partner cities Kratié/Cambodia, Sam Neua, Laos and Sariharjo, Sleman/Indonesia and the PolyUrbanWaters-Network the baseline studies could now…
On February 18, 2023, the School of Public Policy (SPP), Chiang Mai University was honored to welcome members of the…
On March 10th, 2023, in Bangkok, Thailand, a Knowledge Exchange was held to discuss IoT in Urban Development and Smart…
On 01 March 2023, leading representatives from the Build4People project and from the Paññāsāstra University of Cambodia met to discuss…
On 01 March 2023, the German embassy in the Royal Kingdom of Cambodia invited representatives from international donor organisations…
On 28 February 2028, the Build4People team members Rolf Messerschmidt, Leader of Work Package “Sustainable Neighbourhoods”, Prof Dr Dirk Schwede,…
On 28 February 2023, members of the so called Build4People Transition Team met to discuss the design of the…
The URA periodical is an annual open-access publication, which will accompany the Sino-German research and development project Urban-Rural Assembly. By…
In the week of 28th November to 2nd December, Fraunhofer and the School of Public Policy (SPP) at Chiang Mai…
On 16 December 2022, the bi-annual internal reflection meeting of the Build4People team took place which was also used to…
Huế is already one of the greenest cities in Vietnam and local decision-makers are mostly aware of the benefits of…
Linnea Foelster Hamburg Wasser/German Water Partnership shares with a national experts experiences of integrated stormwater management in context of water…
LIRLAP workshops and fieldwork in Bangkok, Hanoi and Manila The German LIRLAP team with participants from the Institute for Spatial…
On 19 October 2022, the Board of Architects of Cambodia (BAC) of the Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and…
The comprehensive baseline assessments for the partner cities Sam Neua/Laos and Sarihajo/Sleman/Indonesia are now available (both documents will be accessible…
During the most recent stay of the Build4People team in Phnom Penh in October 2022, the Build4People consortium leader Dr…
Urban climatic analysis with the outcome of an urban climatic map is an essential tool for sustainable urban development, particularly…
On September 30th, the Final Round and Award Ceremony of the Design Competition “Hue Initiatives – Green Space, Green City”…
On 2 October 2022 and 08 October 2022, the leaders of the Build4People Work package #1 “Behaviour Change” from Magdeburg…
On 22 September 2022, Ravi Jayaweera, research associate of the Build4People Work Package “Sustainable Urban Transformation” presented a joint paper…
Recently another automatic weather station was installed at the compound of the Royal University of Phnom Penh (RUPP), Campus I.…
From July 25th to August 4th, the FloodAdaptVN consortium visited TTHue for the first time since the start of Covid-19.…
Huế is a green city. With about 12.9 m² per capita the green space is comparatively high. However, green and…
The PolyUrbanWaters research team with members from Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Germany conducted extensive research in Sam Neua with the…
The Living Exhibition is one of the key activities of the GreenCityLabHuế (GCLH) project and aims at stimulating discussion and…
On 13 June 2022, VOD News published an insightful article about the rationale behind and the approach of the Build4People…
On 07 June 2022, the Build4People Work Package #5 team “Urban Climate” from Royal University of Phnom Penh, Bunleng Se and colleagues…
The analyses carried out as part of the PolyUrbanWater’s baseline assessment in the urban area of Sahirajo in Sleman/Indonesia show…
On 30 May 2022, Dr. Tep Makathy, Dean of Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning at Paññāsāstra University…
The baseline analyses currently being carried out in PolyUrbanWaters’ partner cities indicate that issues and challenges for sustainable green infrastructure…
PolyUrbanWaters reviews the extent to which green infrastructure developments can be made sustainable in its partner cities. In the course…
On 10 May 2022, the results of the survey on disaster preparedness of micor, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) in…
Build4People research was presented at the 7th NEST Conference in Lyon, France, on May 5-6, 2022. The conference was organised…
In March 2022, Polyurbanwaters’ international teams were able to conduct on-site analyses in Kratie/Cambodia again for the first time. Among…
The team of Build4People Work Package #5 »Urban Climate« is currently working on producing an urban climate map of Phnom…
On 23 March 2022, Dr Michael Waibel, leader of the Build4People collaborative project, met the Dean of the Faculty of…
On 18 March 2022, the results of the Build4People Ecocity Transition Lab 2022 were presented in the presence of HE,…
On 18 March 2022, the Build4People team paid a visit to one of the most prominent developer companies in Cambodia,…
On 16 March 2022, the German embassy in the Royal Kingdom of Cambodia invited representatives from international donor organisations to…
On 15 March 2022, the German embassy in the Royal Kingdom of Cambodia, represented by the ambassador Christian Berger, invited…
On 15 March 2022, the team members Dr. Michael Waibel, Build4People consortium leader, Hamburg University, Build4People Work Package team “Sustainable…
On 14 March 2022, several members of the Build4People team and select representatives of Phnom Penh Capital Administration paid a…
Within the last 2 months since the launch of the Design Competition “Huế Initiatives – Green Space, Green City”, a…
Concerted primary and secondary data collection activities for »Water in the City« baseline studies are now well underway in Sam…
On the 18th of August, PUW team held the first meeting with the Planning Agency in Sleman (BAPPEDA Sleman) to…
The Build4People Project signed Memorandum of Understanding with Phnom Capital Administration On 18 August 2021, the Build4People project, represented by…
On 26 May, an international forum with numerous guests was held at the Tongji-Huangyan Rural Revitalization Institute in Shatan Village…
The GreenCityLabHuế Project aims to provide nature-based solutions (NBS) for the city of Hue to tackle its upcoming challenges such…
Green Buildings and Sustainable Neighbourhoods Aims The exhibition is a tangible product raising awareness on the topic of green buildings…