Dear esteemed authors,
we are excited to announce that the first Volume of the SURE Solutions publication series, funded through the support of the German federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), has been published and can be downloaded and shared freely.
We would like to express sincere gratitude to all of the authors from across Southeast Asia, China and Europe contributing to this first Volume of the SURE Solutions. Und the title „Transdisciplinary Challenges in Sustainable Development of Urban Regions“ you brought this Volume to life and you filled with exciting stories, news, reports and insights to your research. More than 50 authors collaborated to form 25 contributions in this first Volume. We, the editors and the editorial team, of this first Volume would like to thank all of you for your patience during the extended period of preparation and finalisation.
All of the ten projects have contributed to this Volume and we will send the freshly printed physical copies to the SURE projects’ coordinators and kindly ask them to further distribute the physical copies when possible. Additionally, you can access the whole magazine (as well as upcoming volumes) on the SURE homepage from which you can download the content and share it freely as it is an open access publication. You can reference it with the following credentials: ISBN: 978-3-947972-75-3 eISBN: 978-3-947972-76-0 DOI 10.34712/142.61
We had the pleasure to have a soft launch of SURE Solutions at the UN Habitat World Urban Forum in Cairo at the beginning of November with SURE Solutions contributors present to discuss SURE Solutions as a medium to transfer knowledge form the SURE expertise to a wide range of stakeholders ranging far beyond the scientific and academic readership. We would like to thank the participating panellists and contributors very much for their insights and the discussion that followed.
In order to announce the launch of the Publication Series in both presence and online, we would like to warmly invite you to the SURE Solutions Event on the 28th of January 2025 at the HafenCity University in Hamburg. It would be a pleasure to welcome many of you who have authored the contributions of the first volume, either digitally, via Zoom, or of course in presence where you can also receive a physical copy of the magazine at 11 AM (CET) on that day.
We hope to welcome many of you back to the upcoming Volumes of SURE Solutions. The second Volume “Transfer of Strategies and Solutions” is currently under preparation and is planned to be published by early summer 2025, followed by a new call for contributions.
With that, we would like to express our sincere gratitude to all members of the editorial team and hope to see many of you at the SURE Solutions Event at the beginning of the next year. We would kindly like to ask you to please forward the invitation as well as the access to the publication to your co-authors of the contributions you have been part of.
We which you a good read through the magazine and remain with best wishes.
Yours,
Jörg Noennig, Frank Schwartze and Katharina Borgmann
