From September 2016 to August 2019, the City of Bonn took part in the joint project "ZURES" (Future-oriented vulnerability and risk analyses as a tool to promote the resilience of cities and urban infrastructures). As part of the project, current planning principles on the topic of urban climate (heat) were developed for Bonn in particular. ZURES is directly linked to the climate adaptation component of the City of Bonn's integrated climate protection concept.

The ZURES joint project was 100 percent funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research within the framework program Research for Sustainable Development (FONA) and led by the University of Stuttgart. Other partners in the project were TU Dortmund University, the United Nations University, GEO-NET Umweltconsulting, agl, Hartz und Saad and the city of Ludwigsburg as a further practical partner alongside Bonn.