emplement!

emplement! is a joint R&D project within the Sustainable Development of Urban Regions program, sponsored by the German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and facilitated by DLR Project Management Agency.

Within the framework of the overarching objective of "sustainable urban regions", projects are to be promoted which serve to increase the "resilience of cities, their environs and urban regions".

After a 6-month preparatory phase, and a 18 month definition phase the project has entered the 4-year R&D phase (01.06.2021-31.05.2025).

Rapid urbanization presents cities and their surrounding regions with major challenges. Not only due to the increasing consumption of resources and the consequences thereof, but also due to climate change and the threats of associated disasters. Strategies and plans addressing these challenges do not only need to be developed, they need to be practically implemented.

Objective of emplement! is to develop transferable tools and the needed capacities that enable the involved players in the target area Da Nang City and the adjacent Quang Nam Province to implement sustainability and resilience strategies and plans into practical and synergetic measures. At this the city and province are not considered separately, but with special emphasis on their systemic interdependencies. The development of the tools takes place at three different levels:

• System Level (strategies, plans, general framework; data generation methods);
• Technology Level (appropriate technologies, support of decision-making);
• Implementation Level (identification of obstacles, showcases, research on implementation).

Given the economic importance for Da Nang and Quang Nam, emplement! focuses on 4 fields of action:

Implementation should be sustainable, insofar as the technologies must be resource-efficient, scalable, emission-reducing, and thereof contribute to the reduction of GHGs.

But they also must be financially sustainable and operational in the long term. In the structured implementation dialog, the balance between technically possible and appropriate is to be found. Technologies and concepts for the four fields of action are elaborated in such a way that they contribute, inter alia, to resilience against drought and flooding.

emplement! aims to develop transferable methods and tools and the necessary capacities to enable administrations and involved actors in the city of Da Nang and the neighbouring province of Quang Nam (Central Vietnam) to translate relevant strategies and plans into practical, efficient, and sustainable as well as resilient measures that work together in synergy - both on the planning and the practical level.

Important aspect of emplement! is the implementation process for infrastructure e.g. Green Technologies or procedures/ methods in the areas of water and energy supply, wastewater and waste disposal. It is important within the implementation approach to anchor aspects of sustainability and climate protection and to strengthen resilience through intensive cooperation in the urban-rural context

In the R&D phase, implementation activities such as pilot projects will be carried out within the 4 fields of action (Tourism, Agriculture/ Forestry, Industry, Built Environment).

The pilot projects will be accompanied and analysed scientifically with developed or adapted methods, considering possible conceptual and technical as well as trans-sectoral synergies.

The pilot projects are designed in such a way that they can be conceptually and technically networked with each other and transferred to other regional contexts.

In the 4 fields of action technology setups will be developed and selected with regard to their local context, scalability, and potential synergies between the technology applications.

The project provides contributions to practical implementation processes, strengthening local competences, and general implementation research. emplement! is applying tools like questionnaires, obstacle analysis, summer schools and practical trainings. The results from emplement! will be methodically processed and made available as a toolbox.

AT-Verband/ Association for the promotion of adapted, socially and environmentally friendly technologies

emplement! project coordination, method approach for implementing research & regional cooperation and working on the waste topic

AT-Verband

IZES gGmbH/ Infrastructure und Commune Development

Analysing stakeholder and administrative structure and material and energy flows

Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences / Institute for Architecture Civil Engineering and Geomatics

Responsible for urban planning aspects, analysis of existing plans and strategies for Da Nang & Quang Nam Province

University of Tübingen/ Geography

Working on remote sensing and ecological questions and the network of relationship (city-province) in the fields of action

University of Hohenheim/ Department of Agricultural Engineering in the Tropics and Subtropics

Responsible for the topic agricultural and related showcase and for providing project information

University of Hohenheim/ Distillery for Research and Training

Distillation trials, laboratory analyses, sensory evaluation, capacity development of the team

Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences/ Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Working on infrastructure (particularly water and wastewater) related issues and introduction & analysis of showcases

United Nation Human Settlement Program/ Vietnam Office

Responsible for the Vietnamese stakeholder liaison & management

Da Nang Institute for Socio-Economic Development (DISED)

Promoting and coordinating the collaboration of the various city departments within the project

Da Nang Architecture University (DAU)

Contributing to the aspects of technical engineering, and the topics tourism and culture

Quang Nam People' Committee

Promoting and coordinating the collaboration of the various departments of Quang Nam province within the project