At the end of November 2021, the project teams from Leibniz Universität Hannover, TU München and the company AlpGeorisk travelled to Medellín (Colombia) to assess the status of the installation work of the newly developed sensor technology for slope movements and its integration into the public space of the informal settlement. For the first time since the beginning of the pandemic, face-to-face meetings with the Colombian partners and local people were possible again in order to prepare for the subsequent takeover and continuation of the system after the end of the project in December 2022.

The Client2Works team thanks all CLIENT II projects, project agencies and the BMBF for their support and a successful conference!

The technology developed within the CLIENT II project DUB-GEM to detect radioactive radiation at former mining sites with drones was tested under real conditions in October 2021. On the FONA website, the BMBF reports on the tests in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.

The CapTain Rain research project started with a stakeholder workshop in Amman, the capital of Jordan. The focus is on protection against heavy rainfall events, which have repeatedly triggered flash floods in the past, causing major damage. The BMBF reports on the project kick-off on its FONA website.

In ViWaT-Engineering the companies SEBA Hydrometrie and bbe Moldaenke develop innovative monitoring stations for monitoring the water quality in the Mekong delta. Already in october 2020 a pilot test of the first monitoring stations in the Hydraulic engineering laboratory of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) was successfully completed. Because of the Covid-19 pandemic the station could not be installed in the Mekong delta afterwards, so the station was tested instead in between June and September 2021 at the dam Hullern (NRW/GE). It is planned to implement the station during this year at its planned place of operation in Vietnam.

An article on the DAMAST project was published on the federal government's website on September 23, 2021.

Since August, the test installation of the Inform@Risk early warning system for slope movements has been carried out in Medellín, where around 100,000 people currently live in areas at risk of landslides. The work is accompanied by information campaigns and workshops with local residents to increase acceptance and responsibility for the system.

For more than six months, students from the Namibia University of Science and Technology conducted a field study in Namibia in cooperation with Ingolstadt University of Applied Sciences.

At the end of July 2021, Stefanie Meilinger from H-BRS and Steven Denk from WestfalenWIND were invited by EnergieAgentur.NRW to talk about the EnerSHelF project at their podcast “Erneuerbare Energien”. It is now available on their website.

On initiative of the RIESGOS 2.0 project, a special issue of the journal Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences (NHESS) will be published on Multi-risk assessment in the Andes region. The special issue aims at making a significant contribution to single-hazard and multi-hazard risk assessment, including exposure and dynamic vulnerability, and progressing towards the analysis of cascading effects.