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On 17 March 2022, the Build4People WP#1 Science Workshop took place at Royal University of Phnom Penh. It has been a very fruitful event with highly interesting insights, gained from the implementation of three world café table rounds, carefully prepared by Anke Blöbaum and by Annalena Becker from Madgeburg University,…

On 16 March 2022, the kick-off meeting “Designing MSc and PhD curriculum for regional and urban planning”, hosted by Royal University of Agriculture (RUA), took place at Sunway Hotel, Phnom Penh. The main objective of this meeting was to identify opportunities to increase collaboration in terms of curriculum development between…

On 16 March 2022, the German embassy in the Royal Kingdom of Cambodia invited representatives from international donor organisations to a luncheon at the famous Raffles Hotel in Phnom Penh. The aim of this event was to connect these donor organisations with the Build4People project, particularly in regard of the…

On 15 March 2022, the German embassy in the Royal Kingdom of Cambodia, represented by the ambassador Christian Berger, invited leading representatives from local institutions of higher education, from the civil society sector and from the corporate sector to a dinner event at the famous Raffles Hotel in Phnom Penh. …

On 15 March 2022, our team members Dr. Michael Waibel, Build4People consortium leader, Hamburg University, Build4People Work Package team “Sustainable Neighbourhoods” from EMP, Rolf Messerschmidt, Oliver Lambrecht and the communication expert and process designer Andreas von Zadow, von Zadow International, had a very intense and insightful discussion about more connective…

On 14 March 2022, several members of the Build4People team and select representatives of Phnom Penh Capital Administration paid a visit to the local administration of the Chbar Ambov district which has experienced rapid urbanization in recent years, mostly driven by large developer companies. This contributed to an increase of…

On 14 March 2022, the kick-off event of the Build4People Ecocity Transition Lab 2022 took place at Phnom Penh City Hall.  The event was opened by a welcome speech of Dr. Michael Waibel, the overall Build4People representative who firstly emphasized that sustainability is important to prevent global disasters. He also…

On 13 March 2022, the informal kick-off of Build4People Ecocity Transition Lab took place with a brunch meeting at Coconut Park green building, Koh Pich, together with a group of architecture / urban planning students from Paññāsāstra University of Cambodia, followed by a site visit to Phnom Penh’s Chbar Ambov…

23 February 2022 Dear friends and supporters of the #build4people project we need your views on #environmental_challenges in Cambodia! Your opinion is very important for us! Therefore, as part of our research we would like to kindly collect your answers by means of this online survey. It will take about…

The second Transition Team Meeting was a 90min session and took place on 16 February 2022. The main aim of this event was to discuss the design of the upcoming Build4People Sustainable Building Arena (SBA) Workshop. After a kind introduction by the organizers Ravi Jayaweera (Build4People Work Package #6 “Sustainable…