Nước là nguồn chiến lược: Đồng bằng sông Cửu Long (in English: Water as a Strategic Resource: The Mekong Delta in Vietnam) is the titel of a new book published im May 2013 by the Vietnamese Academy of Social Sciences (VASS). The book is a co-production of the Southern Institute of Social Sciences (SISS) in Ho Chi Minh City and the Center for Development Research (ZEF) in Germany (editors: Prof. Bui The Cuong und Prof. Solvay Gerke), who are both partners in the WISDOM project.

Dr. Joern Birkmann (UNU-EHS) presented some selected findings of the WISDOM project in a high level expert workshop on “Climate Change and Climate Extremes in Vietnam”. The expert workshop in Hanoi on 17th of August 2012 dealt with the launch of the IPCC SREX report, which was presented by Prof. Pachauri /Chairman of the IPCC and lead authors of the report, such as Dr. Bach Tanh Sinh / Director of the Dep. of Science and Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology and Dr. Joern Birkmann / United Nations University – Institute for Environment and Human Security.

Nadine Reis was awarded the KfW Prize for practice-relevant development research for her doctoral thesis on "Tracing and Making the State. Policy Practice and Domestic Water Supply in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam". Nadine Reis was a PhD candidate of the first phase of the WISDOM project and wrote her thesis at the Center for Development Research (ZEF).

On the 3rd of July a joint workshop on the WISDOM Information System was given for the Department of Water Resources Management. Subject of the workshop were the underlying theoretical concepts of Web GIS applications such as the WISDOM Information System, Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) standards and services and looking into more detail into the concept of Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) as well as related administrative frameworks.

经过6个月的精心准备，由芹苴市社会经济发展研究中心（CIDS），南方可持续发展研究院(Southern Institute of Sustainable Development, SISD)，发展研究中心（ZEF）联合组成的研究小组对位于湄公河三角洲地区的芹苴市的小型企业，居民生活和水资源管理状况展开详细调查。从2012年5月14日到23日之间，该调查小组对小型企业的业主和职工分别进行问卷调查，并就研究区经济发展带来的影响与代表进行了6组针对不同侧重点的讨论。

一系列的热带风暴和季风性强降雨天气相结合，使湄公河下游在2011年遭遇10年以来破坏最严重的洪灾。下述图像是2011年10月16日，10月23日和11月1日的湄公河流域汛期的洪水比较。

On January 17, 2012 a Mexican delegation accompanied by DLR Executive Board Chairman Prof. Johann-Dietrich Wörner visited the Earth Observation Center (EOC). The director of the reorganized Mexican Space Agency, Agencia Espacial Mexicana (Aexa), Mr. Javier Mendieta, his deputy Mr. Enrique Pacheco, and Mr. Enrique Palos from the Mexican Embassy were able to obtained first-hand information about the EOC’s current work and international cooperation.