Hans Kramar presented the results of the FFG research project ‘VESPA’ at the Stadt-Umland-Konferenz 2024, which took place on 18 November 2024 under the title ‘Die Stadtregion wächst - Schaffen wir das?’ at the Kaiserbahnhof in Laxenburg. In his presentation ‘Resilience in times of crisis’, he discussed the question of how vulnerable Austria's municipalities are to the challenges and dangers of the future and presented the method developed in the project for qualitatively and quantitatively assessing the vulnerability of municipalities. The approximately 250 experts, mayors, municipal representatives and stakeholders from the Vienna urban-rural region in attendance discussed the individual vulnerability of their municipalities on the basis of this concept and carried out a spontaneous vulnerability assessment, which yielded very interesting results.