In a short video clip, Prof. Dr. Georg Guggenberger from the CLIENT II project ReKKS explains the lessons learned so far, his experiences with the local partners and how networking between the project participants can be successful.

The source code of the RIESGOS demonstrator is now available on GitHub, a platform for creating and managing collaborative and free software.

On 5 March 2020 a number of BMBF-funded projects in Vietnam met up for a networking event in Bonn.

In February researchers from the Ingolstadt University of Technology (THI) and the University for Sustainable Development Eberswalde (HNEE) in cooperation with the Kyrgyz partner university Naryn State University (NSU) conducted a quantitative household survey in the municipality of Ak-Tal. The research group was able to collect important data for the next steps in the project.

At the end of November and beginning of December 2019 the IfaS and Nuertingen-Geislingen University Teams visited both project areas in Senegal to meet partners, collect data and advance with the planning and procurement of the investments and the two other pilot projects.

On 28 January 2020, representatives of the CLIENT II joint projects ReKKS, Locust-Tec and KlimALEZ attended the Green Central Asia conference, along with the CLIENT II regional office the Central Asian Sustainable Innovations Bureau (CASIB). The conference hosted by the Federal Foreign Office in Berlin marked the launch of Green Central Asia, a regional initiative on climate and security in Central Asia and Afghanistan.

On 16 January, the Minister of Agriculture of Uzbekistan, Jamshid Khodjaev, met with a team of IAMO staff responsible for coordinating the KlimALEZ project.

German project partners WestfalenWind and University of Applied Sciences Bonn-Rhine-Sieg from the joint German-Ghanaian energy project EnerSHelF convened in Paderborn to pack and ship vital measurement equipment to Ghana. The shipment left port in Hamburg on the 2nd of January 2020 and is scheduled to arrive at our project partner WASCAL located in Tema, Ghana on February 17th 2020.

The project partners of the CLIENT II project PROCEED met in Namibia to install monitoring stations. The aim of the research visit was to record the electricity demand of selected consumers and to evaluate it remotely.

At the 25th UN climate change conference (COP25) in Madrid in December 2019, Dr Karsten Hess (BMBF) presented the two CLIENT II projects CLIMAFRI and RAIN. The side event was organised by the Science Policy Interface (SPI), an accompanying project to the CLIENT II funding measure.