NEWS

May 2023

In January 2023, Antonia Hippel successfully completed her project work as part of her studies at the Institute of Hydraulic Engineering and Technical Hydromechanics at the TU Dresden and in cooperation with the HKC. The work within the KAHR project deals with the derivation of private flood prevention measures on buildings based on two-dimensional, hydrodynamic-numerical models. HKC will continue to work with the results of this work in the KAHR project.

We thank HKC for the great cooperation and are looking forward to support her diploma thesis together with the TU Dresden afterwards.

February 2023

Awareness of the risk posed by floods is the fundamental element for taking correct and fast action in hazardous situations. Raising awareness is particularly effective if it starts as early as possible, for example in childhood.

For this reason, the HKC organized a children's workshop on flood prevention in February 2023 as part of the KAHR project together with the Technical University of Dortmund, Diakonie Katastrophenhilfe and SkF Hochwasserhilfen. The twelve children from the third and fourth school years first learned about various precautionary measures in a playful way, including the emergency kit, before they were allowed to get active themselves and design flood-proof houses. The workshop was rounded off with a guided tour of the KAHR Infomobile exhibition and a certificate award ceremony for the newly qualified flood prevention professionals!

The workshop showed: Children are already very interested in floods and ways to protect themselves from the danger. In the creative tasks, they proved that their solutions are at least as useful as those of the adults. The feedback, both from the children and from the organizers, proved to be very positive throughout and indicates a need for an expansion of child-oriented flood protection formats.

Novembre 2022

On November 23, a communication workshop for the Infomobile supervisors took place at the HKC office. The aim was to develop a strategy of advisory services with the help of the question "What do we want to communicate, with whom and how?

In an open round, the 15 participants discussed the current state of Infomobile counseling, their wishes for the future and possibilities for further developing counseling at the Infomobiles with the help of a SWOT analysis. For the communication goals that were developed, measures for implementation were then worked out, which were as diverse as the participants and ranged from further mobile counseling services to regular training sessions on specific Infomobile topics to expansions of the Infomobile equipment. Consideration is now being given to which of the measures can be usefully implemented in the short, medium and long term.

The communication training was a great success, both as an opportunity for the Infomobil advisors to exchange experiences and for the further development of the Infomobils! We plan to hold more workshops of this kind in the future!