The UNESCO-IHE Partnership Research Fund (UPaRF) announces an interdisciplinary post-doctoral research programme to investigate the many challenges of adapting to climate change from different water related perspectives (PRoACC).
In the field of coastal morphodynamics, the study of the changes in channels, shoals and coastlines, prediction models used to be either too simple or difficult to run over large timescales.
Giles Lesser has tackled these problems by introducing fully three-dimensional modelling of morpholog...
UNESCO-IHE's Annual Report 2008 is now available online.
UNESCO-IHE celebrated the closing of the academic year 2007-2009 with an Awarding and Closing Ceremony on 23 April 2009, in the Old Church in Delft. This year 113 students from 39 countries received their Master of Science diploma. 15 students graduated with distinction.
Water companies that are privatised behave differently; they become more active and entrepreneurial. However, the different pattern of behavior does not significantly affect the company’s performance. Marco Schouten concludes this in his PhD thesis entitled ‘Strategy and Performance of Water Sup...
The final draft of the proceedings of the Water Education Workshop, held end February 2009, is available. The proceedings entitled: 'Towards Strategies with Impact in Water Education: Proceedings of the UNESCO Regional Workshop on Water and Education in Europe and North America' includes experts...
The UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education in Delft, the Netherlands and the University of Khartoum in Sudan, signed a cooperation agreement on 18 March 2009, on collaboration in education, training and research in the sustainable management of water and environmental resources between the two...
From 6 to 9 April 2009, UNESCO-IHE will hold its annual PhD Seminar. At the seminar current research students will present the latest results of their work.
On 4 March 2009, UNESCO-IHE and EARS, in cooperation with the Hydrological Bureau of the Yellow River Conservancy Commission, introduced a satellite based drought monitoring and flow forecasting system for the Yellow River Basin.
UNESCO-IHE, in close collaboration with UNESCO-IHP, hosted the UNESCO Water Education regional workshop on 26-27 February, focusing on North American and European regions. The workshop was part of a cycle of similar workshops that are taking place in different regions of the world.
