In early July, a pre-print on the topic of irradiance over West Africa was published under the leadership of project collaborator Dr Windmanagda Sawadogo from the University of Augsburg. Other EnerSHelF project partners were also involved in the publication as co-authors.

From March 21 to 26, 2022, visitors and exhibitors could inform themselves in Dakar (Senegal) about the RAIN project, which is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).

The BioProLat project team visited the project region in Brazil from 14 to 17 June 2022.

Within the JOSSI project, the two-phase flow (water-steam) of a Concentrating Solar Power plant is investigated. Practical preparations for the first measurement campaign have now started.

Locust outbreaks increase continuously: In May 2022 the “Locust-Tec”-Team was able to travel to South-Kazakhstan and carry out important field surveys and tests during the development phase of the Marrocan locusts.

After finding a suitable test site in late April and procuring all the necessary materials for the construction of the pilot plant, a team from the Ruhr-University of Bochum (RUB) and the University of Ghana (UG) began constructing the gravity filter irrigation plant in early May.

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.