As part of the OrganoRice project, Vietnamese students from Can Tho University are using an app developed by the project to record land and pesticide use. After a short training, the app allows for quick recording of land use, including information on irrigation and crop rotation obtained from interviews with farmers. They can also upload photos onto the app, to show the current situation.

The company RITTEC (project lead), Brazilian consultancy Circulagem and a Brazilian cosmetics manufacturer have received further funding to study the recycling of PET-packaging from the cosmetics industry. In addition, two Brazilian students will have the opportunity to travel to Germany as part of an international exchange programme to work on the revolBRAS project. Since the last update, the project has completed an extended gravimetric study with five Brazilian waste collectors’ cooperatives, with the results now available.

Hermann Sewerin GmbH donated a Multitec 545 gas analyser to the Level-Up project. It will support the analysis of biogas and biomass gasification product gases and thus enable safe plant commissioning and efficient regular operation of the energy park in Ghana.

The A:RT-D Grids project invites you to the 3rd Graduate Training (GT) for Sustainable Energy Development, taking place from August 7th to 11th, 2023.

On 26 and 27 April 2023, the German-Vietnamese Science Day (GVSD) brought together scientists, representatives from politics, administration and business from more than 100 organisations in Da Nang, central Vietnam.

In 2023, the Special Award for Global Corporate Partnerships of the International German Sustainability Award (DNP) will be awarded. For the first time, the DNP will honour companies/institutions based in Germany that, together with a partner company from a developing or emerging country, are making a strong contribution to sustainable development and global climate protection through environmental and efficiency technologies.

The Central Highlands project region in Vietnam is affected by severe drought. The Drought-ADAPT project team left for a consortium trip to the region in April 2023.

The company RITTEC (project coordinator revolBRAS) won a start-up prize in September 2022. Part of the prize was a two-week roadshow in Brazil, organised jointly with the AHK- and DWIH-Sao Paulo in March 2023.

In March 2023, the new CLIENT II project SUFACHAIN to promote sustainable land management through innovative agroforestry systems in Central Asia had its official kick-off workshop in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.

Protecting forests and using them sustainably: The current issue of the FONA newsletter of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) reports on the CLIENT II project SUFACHAIN.