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.

Construction has been begun of “Real Lab” – 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.

From 2-3 December 2021, the PROCEED team presented its activities with African partners at its own stand.

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.

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

Update on current developments in the EnerSHelF project