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The first in-person Co-Development Workshop of the FloodAdaptVN R&D Phase took place on 27th July 2022. The progress and the ongoing activities were presented to the attending stakeholders. The Vice President of Hue University Assoc. Prof. Huynh Van Chuong and the Chair of the Thua Thien Hue Provincial Commanding Committee of Natural Disaster Prevention and Control, Search and Rescue introduced the event with keynote speeches.

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From July 25th to August 4th, the FloodAdaptVN consortium visited TTHue for the first time since the start of Covid-19. We are grateful that we were able to maintain such good communication with all project participants during the last 2 years of the pandemic. Under the guidance of our partners of the Hue University and the Thua Thien Hue Provincial Commanding Committee of Natural Disaster Prevention and Control, Search and Rescue, we visited flood prone sites, existing flood protection measures, as well as several hydropower reservoirs. We conducted a Co-Development workshop with multiple stakeholders, hydrological measurements, a workshop in “Risk Drivers and Impacts” (led by UNU), a workshop on “Scenarios” (led by LMU) and had bilateral meetings with partners and stakeholders. The importance and potential impact of our project was highlighted in all meetings and the commitment of the stakeholders to support our activities was motivating us further.

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The Sustainable Development of Urban Regions (»SURE«) funding priority successfully conducted its Status Seminar 2022. This was the first time all involved German reaearch organizations and SME of the collaborative SURE projects exchanged research insights face-to-face.

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“Stakeholder Dialogue between Sustainability Science and Society “– this was the topic of the third synergy workshop organised by the SURE Facilitation and Synthesis Research Project on 2nd December 2021. SURE is a funding priority of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, which focuses on research for sustainability (FONA strategy). The funded SURE collaborative projects have set themselves the task of developing concepts and solutions for sustainable urban and regional development in Southeast Asia and China. Around 45 SURE researchers from Germany and the Asian partner countries took part in the online workshop.
To kick off the event, Dr Franziska Ehnert and Martin Krekeler gave lectures on best practice examples and current concepts of stakeholder participation. Scientific and practical perspectives on how to shape stakeholder dialogues between science and society as “co-creation” processes were presented and discussed.
The second part of the workshop focused on dialogue opportunities on two fronts. The projects intensively exchanged on stakeholder involvement design, methods and approaches. Then it was followed by a storytelling session where participants shared real-life stakeholder involvement experiences accumulated within the SURE projects. There is no doubt that the Covid 19 pandemic has presented obstacles to working with stakeholders in Southeast Asia and China. Nevertheless, a number of success stories were shared at the workshop which point out the methodological resourcefulness and agile management of the SURE projects. Thanks to the digital orientation of real labs, workshops and trainings, stakeholder networks could even be further expanded despite the pandemic-related restrictions. The stakeholder dialogues made a particular contribution to building trust for a sustainable partnership. The participants, however, now hope for the possibility of personal exchanges in the near future. This is essential for the development of reliable partnership relations.

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The University of Tuebingen team presented results of their research on urban heat effects in Vietnamese metropolitan areas at the 11th International Forum on Green Technology and Management (IFGTM 2021), Can Tho, Viet Nam.

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Heavy rain in Central Europe triggered severe flash floods on July 15th and the following days. In Germany, the Rhineland, North-Rhine Westphalia and parts of Bavaria were the most affected regions with more than 160 casualties and enourmous devastation of infrastructure.

The events show the importance of adaptation to climate change and that the added value of bilateral experience and exchange in research projects such as FloodAdaptVN brings benefits to all participants. Ecosystem-based measures are important components when adapting to climate change in Vietnam, Germany and other regions. FloodAdaptVN will further contribute to the improvement of flood risk management concepts and the assessment of locally adapted measures.

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We thank again all participants that attended the FloodAdaptVN Research and Development phase (R&D) Kick-Off event on June 15th 2021. The Kick-Off took place as hybrid event. During the Definition phase (08/2019-03/2021), the modular FloodAdaptVN approach was developed and successfully tested in pilot applications.
Assoc. Prof. Huynh Van Chuong, the Vice President Hue University and Dr. Heike Bauer of the German DLR project management agency held the opening speeches. Mr. Le Dien Minh of the Provincial Committee for Flood and Storm Control (CFSC) provided an informative presentation of the floods in autumn 2020. The FloodAdaptVN team presented the experiences and results of the 21-month Definition phase and provided an outlook on the collaborative activities of the Research and Development phase (next 4 years). The Kick-Off ended with a fruitful and active discussion of the FloodAdaptVN participants and stakeholders.

• Kick-Off program

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In the international BMBF measure “SURE”, ten projects (including FloodAdaptVN) in Southeast Asia & China are researching locally adapted solutions for the sustainable development of urban regions to improve ecological factors and increase the resilience of cities.
An online kickoff meeting will launch the research and development phase of SURE on April 29, 2021. This was preceded by an 18-24 month definition phase, during which the projects and objectives were concretized together with partners from the Southeast Asia and China regions.

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We are pleased to announce the approval of the FloodAdaptVN Research and Development phase (R&D) by the German Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF).
The next phase will start on April 1st, 2021. More details will follow soon…. stay tuned.

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For the upcoming next phase of the FloodAdaptVN project, UNU-EHS is currently looking for two early career scientists (PhD candidates).

Vacancy announcements:

Flood Risks and Adaptation Pathways (in urban regions of Central Vietnam)

Ecosystem-based Adaptation (in urban regions of Central Vietnam)

Application deadline: 04 April 2021.

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The flood extent of October 10th could be delineated utilizing radar satellite images (Sentinel-2, ESA-Copernicus).

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From October 6th, the central region of Vietnam - including Hue - has experienced prolonged and heavy rains that have caused severe and widespread flooding and landslides. As of October 18th, more than 100 people have been killed and about 140,000 houses have been flooded. The next storm (SAUDEL) is expected to hit the region on October 25.

The FloodAdaptVN consortium wishes the affected people safety and health. Our thoughts are with you!

The impressions of the flood in Hue in the gallery were provided by our collegaues in Hue (Tran Thien and Ho Viet Hoang)

Further information on the flood:
NEWS

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In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the FloodAdaptVN cooperation and co-development continues online until the situation allows again travel and field-work.
Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions.
We wish good health to everyone!

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The networking meeting of the BMBF-funded projects in Vietnam took place on March 5th 2020 in Bonn, Germany. Dr Felix Bachofer presented the FloodAdaptVN approach and discussed with researchers from various sectors about synergies and future cooperation.

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The German Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF) organized the “Zukunftsstadt Konferenz” (Future City Conference). The conference is a platform for the transfer of research and innovations into measures and concepts for sustainable urban development and a meeting place for actors from local government, politics, science, business and society. Within the framework of this concept, FloodAdaptVN also presented itself with contributions and discussed with the experts present.

Prof. Dr. Matthias Garschagen (LMU) was one of the invited keynote speakers and presented on the climate change adaptation challenges of urban regions.

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For the official Kick-Off event, FloodAdaptVN could consider itself fortunate to be able to welcome high level representatives of local authorities, civil society, science and the German project management agency DLR. Assoc. Prof. Huynh Van Chuong, Vice President of the Huê University started the event with a warm welcome speech. Chairman Nguyen Van Phuong of the People’s Committee Huê informed the audience of the relevance of the project and the support of the local authorities. Mr Le Dien Minh of the Committee for Flood and Storm Control (CFSC) reported on the flood risk for the province. Dr. Heike Bauer (PT-DLR), who represented the German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) on this event, explained about the context and the objectives of the funding initiative that support FloodAdaptVN. Prof. Dr. Nguyen, Hoang Khanh Linh and Dr. Felix Bachofer (DLR) provided a detailed overview on the objectives, methods and expected outcome of FloodAdaptVN. We consider us very happy to start with such a strong commitment of all partners and stakeholders into this phase of the project.

Local media reported favourably off the event:
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FloodAdaptVN attended the 3rd German Science Day in Hanoi, Vietnam. Among others, exemplary bilateral projects in the fields of water and environmental technologies, sustainable urban development, bioeconomics and health research were presented. In addition, both ministries and other German funding institutions presented funding opportunities for new joint project ideas. Dr. Guido Hildner (German Ambassador in Vietnam), Prof. Dr. Buy The Duy (Vice-Minister MOST, Vietnam) and Kathrin Meyer (BMBF) opened the event.

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In the week of 28.10.-01.11.2019, the FloodAdaptVN partners had several fruitful workshops and meetings with our local stakeholders and partners: People’s Committee of the Province, Department of Natural Resources and Environment (DoNRE), Department of Construction (DoC), Department of Planning and Investment (DPI), Provincial Committee for Flood and Storm Control (PCFSC) and the Hydro-Meteorology Center of Thua Thien Province.
In addition, we had a field visit to potential study sites for testing of the FloodAdaptVN approach.

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The Definition phase of FloodAdaptVN officially started on 01.08.2019. The research is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). This 18-month phase will last from 01.08.2019 to 31.01.2020. The overall aim of the FloodAdaptVN Definition phase is to test the initial approach and to co-develop and refine it with our local partners and stakeholders. The outcome and experiences of the definition phase will be used to co-design the subsequent Research & Development phase of four years.

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With our notification letter, we inform our partners and stakeholder about the current status of the FloodAdaptVN project:

• PDF of the FloodAdaptVN notification Letter 2019-02

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Subsequent to the workshop in Hue in December 2017, the FloodAdaptVN consortium gladly integrated the contributions, ideas and research questions that were developed by the participants of the workshop into a proposal for funding that was submitted to the German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).
After a thorough review in a competitive process, the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) has recently signalized that our project will be funded and enter the so called Definition Phase (starting in mid-2019). During this phase of the research project, the objectives can still be adjusted in order to better meet the needs in a way that it is most relevant to decision-makers, planners, and practitioners in Central Vietnam.

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FloodAdaptVN aims to close knowledge gaps concerning a detailed understanding of the root causes, drivers, hotspots and dynamics of flood risk affecting social-ecological systems (SES) of rapidly growing cities and their hinterlands. The overall aim of FloodAdaptVN is to generate an improved understanding of vulnerability and risk dynamics affecting social-ecological systems in urban coastal regions in Central Vietnam and their hinterlands in the context of global change, and to provide novel methods for decision support in the realm of sustainable risk reduction and adaptation, including conventional, but also ecosystem-based and hybrid measures.
Hence, we are thankful for the fruitful discussion with more than 60 participants on challenges and needs related to flood risk management in urban regions of Central-Vietnam during the FloodAdaptVN Workshop on December 12th 2017. The objectives of the scoping workshop were:
a) to present you of the FloodAdaptVN project
b) to discuss current and future flood-related challenges and needs with representatives of stakeholders working in the fields of flood risk analysis, risk reduction, adaptation and spatial planning
c) to initiate a network of scientists and practitioners in Central Vietnam to work jointly on adaptive and sustainable urban development.

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The Preparation Phase proposal of FloodAdaptVN was approved by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). This 6-month phase will last from 01.10.2017 to 31.03.2018. The overall aim of the preparation phase is to set up a frame and communication opportunities for the co-design in order to further specify the project idea, and to identify additional relevant partners for the co-production of the proposal for the Definition Phase.