On July 3, 2019, the DRU carried out a quick-response research in the emergency shelter Lübtheen, district Ludwigslust Parchim, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. The forest fire, which had been burning for days on heavily ammunition-polluted soil, led to the evacuation of 650 people from four villages. In the emergency shelter in Lübtheen, interviews were conducted with relief personnel […]

Annette Händlmeyer (German Red Cross – GRC) and Cordula Dittmer (DRU) presented the joint project poster at the Fachdialog Sicherheitforschung “Diversity of Security – Social Dimensions of Security Research”, which took place on 27 and 28 June 2019 in the Harnack House in Berlin, Germany.

Under the title “Migrationsbezogenes Wissensmanagement für den Bevölkerungsschutz der Zukunft”, the project consortium WAKE published an article in the journal “Notfallvorsorge” (Issue 2/2019, Volume 50, pp. 20-26) on the tasks, approaches and goals of the project. online

Daniel F. Lorenz and Cordula Dittmer participated with two presentations and a panel at this year’s NEEDS conference from 10.6.-12.6.2019 in Uppsala, Sweden. In the panel “Institutional learning in times of increased refugee movements and humanitarian crises”, which was organised in cooperation with the Chair of Public Safety and Emergency Management, Bergische Universität Wuppertal (Dr. […]