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03/04/2026

Kick-off workshop for the adapTWIN project at Essen Town Hall

How can digital twins help accelerate climate adaptation planning processes in cities? At the kick-off of the adapTWIN project in Essen City Hall,…
Essen City Council, Lindenallee, Deutschlandhaus, exterior view
03/03/2026

ALBATROSS Project has released its first series of Policy Briefs and Country Synthesis Reports for Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, South Africa and Tanzania

The ALBATROSS project has released its first series of Policy Briefs and Country Synthesis Reports. These synthesize findings from over 250 policy…
Turkana Camel Herd in Turkana See, Kenya
02/25/2026

Dr. Shiwaye Mersha Tesfay secures funding to advance research on peri-urban land governance

Since January 2024, Dr. Shiwaye Mersha Tesfay is Georg Forster Research Fellow in our Research Group. Following a successful two-year research stay,…
Panel Discussion at the scientific workshop “Navigating Peri-Urban Transformations”
02/03/2026

FloodJustice launched: Research on justice in flood risk management

Since January 2026, the research project FloodJustice is investigating spatial inequalities in flood risk management in the Rur river basin. The…
River course within the WVER association area
12/16/2025

Enhancing Urban Climate Resilience in Panaji (Goa, India): Insights from the Urban-Act Field Mission

17th to 21st November 2025, RER team (TU Dortmund University) and the University of Stuttgart, together with GIZ India and the local consortium,…
On behalf of Dr. Jamshed at University of Stuttgart, Dr. Wiriya Puntub at TU Dortmund presented the scientific findings of Urban Act on local climate vulnerability assessment derived from the household survey in Panaji City
11/11/2025

Award ceremony for the "Housing Policy" study prize

The German Tenants' Association (DMB) and the Department of Spatial Planning at TU Dortmund University awarded the "Housing Policy" study prize for…
Housing Policy
10/28/2025

Urban-Act Project Field Mission to the Philippines and Thailand

Under the Integrated Urban Climate Action for Low-Carbon & Resilient Cities, or Urban-Act project, TU Dortmund University (RER) and University of…
Public Lecture of Dr. Wolfgang Scholz (RER) at the Faculty of Architecture at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok
10/24/2025

Upscaling Nature-Based Solutions: Mid-Term Forum and Consortium Meeting in Aachen Highlight Collaboration Between Regions, Research and Practice

On 6–8 October 2025, the Land4Climate Mid-Term Forum and the fifth consortium meeting of the project took place in Aachen. The three-day exchange…
Keynote
09/09/2025

Looking Back at the KRITIS-Dialog: Working Together for a Resilient Region

With the closing event on 3 July 2025 at Kloster Schweinheim in Euskirchen, the KRITIS-Dialog project officially came to an end.
Participants of the final event of the KRITIS-Dialog project