In late April 2022, the RAIN project team started constructing a low-tech filtration plant with an attached irrigation system for the use of contaminated surface water in Ghana.

With a focus on climate-adapted land use in Morocco, the BMBF-funded project SuLaMo is dedicated to improving crop productivity through novel, water-saving soil and irrigation techniques.

Two members of the EnerSHelF project team travelled to Ghana at the end of March 2022 to meet with the Ghanaian partners and maintain the technical installations.

After more than two years of purely digital exchanges and extensive Zoom calls, the PROCEED team was finally able to meet in person in Namibia! From April 2 - 15, representatives from Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt (THI), University of Bayreuth (UBT), Hochschule Neu-Ulm (HNU) and IBC SOLAR AG were able to visit partners in Windhoek and travel to Tsumkwe and Gam – two of the project’s selected case study communities.

The ViWaT Engineering project team carried out geotechnical exploratory drilling in Vietnam in April 2022. The data obtained will be used, among other things, to help develop the concept for protecting the eroding coastline in the Mekong Delta.

The revolBRAS project is developing a holistic solution for recycling composite packaging containing PET in Brazil. The project has just achieved its first milestone with the completion of a market analysis that will provide the basis for the market launch of the patented revolPET® technology.

After around ten years and with the end of its current BMBF funding phase, the BMBF project office "Clean Water" in Shanghai will close its doors on March 31, 2022.

Interview with the EnerSHelF project leaders - originally published at the Bonn Sustainability Portal. They are talking about project goals, the project's progress as well as the challenges that are faced.

The construction of “Real Lab” has been begun – a community house, to demonstrate the use of sustainable energy solutions, and impact of sustainable insulation material in high-altitude and cold climatic region of rural Kyrgyzstan.

In freezing temperatures, a stakeholder workshop was held in December 2021 in the village of Ak-Tal, Kyrgyzstan. The participants from different local interest groups discussed controversially the condition and protection of their alluvial forest area. Thanks to the Conservation Standards method, a coherent picture of the situation emerged and consensus strategies were formulated.