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Research projects

On-going projects

Strong Roots, Strong Women

Strong Roots, Strong Women

Strengthening capacity of women in Eco-system-based Adaptation (EbA) for sustainable economic development in the Huong River basin

EKLIPS3plus1

EKLIPS3plus1

Efficient and Climate-Resilient Planning with 3 Urban Digital Twins in 1 Region

DROP

DROP

co-designed Decision support system and solutions for flood Resilience with and for People

Überflutungen

Abschätzung der Auswirkungen von Überflutungen durch Starkregen

Erstellung einer Hotspot-Karte für das Land Berlin

Completed projects

Kommunalbefragung

KomKlAn

State and Progress of Municipal Climate Adaptation in Germany

A12
Foto: René Arnold

VietPanel

Understanding the dynamics of flood impacts, adaptive behaviour and perceptions of ecosystem-based adaptation for a more climate-resilient society

Inno_MAUS

Inno_Maus

Innovative Instruments for Managing Urban Extreme Rainfall Risk

KAHR

Climate Adaptation, Flooding, and Resilience (KAHR)

Scientific Support for the Reconstruction Processes Following the Flood Disaster in Rhineland-Palatinate and North Rhine-Westphalia

Aqua-X-Net

Aqua-X-Net

Networking and Transfer Project for the BMBF Funding Measure on Extreme Water Events (WaX)

http://www.natriskchange.de
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NatRiskChange - Natural Hazards and Risks in a Changing World

DFG Research Training Group 2043/1; Duration: 01.10.2015 – 31.12.2024

https://www.uni-potsdam.de/extrass/
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Joint project ExTrass: Urban resilience to extreme weather events

ExTrass wants to arm German big and medium cities better against heat and heavy rain.

Identification of locations for effective dike relocations
river landscape

Identification of locations for effective dike relocations

DAAD scholarship for doctoral candidates on 1.10.2019

Hydraulically and ecologically defined floodplain boundaries
Hydraulically and ecologically defined floodplain boundaries

Hydraulically and ecologically defined floodplain boundaries

HoWas2021

HoWas2021

Governance and Communication in the Crisis Situation of the Flood Event in July 202

A15

Damage Assessment After Disaster Events

Pilot Study on Flood Damage Assessment Using Remote Sensing Data Within the BBK-Innovativ Program

Monitoring of drought stress symptoms in cultivated plants

Monitoring of drought stress symptoms in cultivated plants using multispectral recording systems

Transferability of flood damage models

Transferability of flood damage models

DAAD-doctoral fellowship

Evaluating Germany's Climate Mitigation and Adaptation Practice

Evaluating Germany's Climate Mitigation and Adaptation Practice

Adaptation to flood risks

Investigation of potentials for the use of Copernicus data and services

for the implementation of the Flood Risk Management Directive; carried out by up transfer GmbH in cooperation with Terranae UG on behalf of the Federal Environment Agency; duration: 02/2019- 05/2019

Cooperation with authorities on climate change

Cooperation with authorities on climate change

carried out by up transfer GmbH on behalf of the Federal Environment Agency; duration: 11/2015 to 10/2018

A1
ResilNam - coastal

ResilNam - coastal

Ecology and Gender Based Flood Resilience Building in Thua Thien Hue, Central Vietnam

A2
ResilNam - urban

ResilNam - urban

Ecology and Gender Based Flood Resilience Building in Thua Thien Hue, Central Vietnam

A3
Joint project ExTrass: Urban resilience to extreme weather events (definition phase)

Joint project ExTrass

Urban resilience to extreme weather events (definition phase)

Heavy rain prevention

carried out by up transfer GmbH on behalf of the Federal Environment Agency; duration: 01/2017 to 04/2018

A4

ALErT - Anatolian pLateau climatE and Tectonic hazards

ENHANCE – Enhancing risk management partnerships for catastrophic natural disasters in Europe

Evaluation of the operation "Hochwasserkatastrophe 2013" for Aktion Deutschland Hilft (ADH)

carried out by up transfer GmbH; duration: 10/2015 to 01/2016

A6

Organization and implementation of a workshop on "Climate impact and loss data for Europe"

A7

Investigations on flood management in June 2013

BMBF joint project "Investigations on flood management in June 2013", sub-project "Potential and actual damage reduction through precaution and early warning".

A8

Monitoring of damage caused by floods and heavy rainfall

Survey of private households on events in August 2010 and January 2011

A9

FloodTimeS – From Climate Change-Flood-Relationship to Flood Risk Time Series

in cooperation with the University of Innsbruck

A10

Flood resilient communities - managing the consequences of flooding

SCP - Scientific coordination project for the second Era-Net CRUE funding initiative "Flood resilient communities - managing the consequences of flooding".