On 26 and 27 April 2023, the German-Vietnamese Science Day (GVSD) brought together scientists, representatives from politics, administration and business from more than 100 organisations in Da Nang, central Vietnam.

In 2023, the Special Award for Global Corporate Partnerships of the International German Sustainability Award (DNP) will be awarded. For the first time, the DNP will honour companies/institutions based in Germany that, together with a partner company from a developing or emerging country, are making a strong contribution to sustainable development and global climate protection through environmental and efficiency technologies.

The Central Highlands project region in Vietnam is affected by severe drought. The DROUGHT-ADAPT project team left for a consortium trip to the region in April 2023.

The company RITTEC (project coordinator revolBRAS) won a start-up prize in September 2022. Part of the prize was a two-week roadshow in Brazil, organised jointly with the AHK- and DWIH-Sao Paulo in March 2023.

In March 2023, the new CLIENT II project SUFACHAIN to promote sustainable land management through innovative agroforestry systems in Central Asia had its official kick-off workshop in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.

Protecting forests and using them sustainably: The current issue of the FONA newsletter of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) reports on the CLIENT II project SUFACHAIN.

The EnerSHelF Project is finalizing its research results. In this process, two policy briefs have just been published. In a condensed form, they present findings and key recommendations derived from the research for relevant stakeholders and policy makers.

The CLIENT II project EnaTex aims to accompany the Indonesian textile industry on its way to sustainable production, focusing energy efficiency and renewable energies. The project is attracting great interest from companies, business and science in Indonesia.

After initial discussions in 2016 and a pilot phase, the project "Sustainable Technologies and Services for Water and Land Management in Morocco: I-WALAMAR" came to an end in December 2022.

From mid-November 2022 onwards, the revolBRAS project team conducted an extended field study in Brazil with waste collectors’ cooperatives. The objective of the study was to collect data on the market potential of PET-containing waste. Five other “Cooperativas” participated in a gravimetric study to identify the PET content in the waste volumes in São Paulo City. The target materials were identified as PET-containing post-consumer waste which does currently not have any market value and cannot be recycled through already existing technologies in the country. After the month long training the waste collectors’ cooperatives began the sorting. First results of the study are already available.