World Water Day 2013 took place on the 22nd of March. UNESCO-IHE staff members, MSc students and PhD fellows represented the Institute at the World Water Day events in The Hague at the World Youth Parliament for Water Conference and at the World Forum.
On 25 & 26 March, UNESCO-IHE and Radio Netherlands Training Centre (RNTC) organized a pilot course on how to communicate water science. Science often needs rephrasing, interpreting, translating and evaluating in order to reach 'the other party' effectively and to create conditions for true d...
On Friday 22 March 2013, the UNESCO Bangkok Office will hold a press conference and launch event of the project “Development of a Flood Risk Mitigation Plan for the World Heritage Site of Ayutthaya”, funded by the ADB-UNESCO-IHE Knowledge Partnership from 1:00 pm to 3.00 pm.
Linked to the official program of World Water Day, the World Youth Parliament for Water Conference, aims to challenge youth to discuss International Water Cooperation. Inspired by 4 speakers during the plenary session, students will be asked to come up with practical ideas themselves during the...
2013 is the UN Year for Water Cooperation, a theme at the heart of UNESCO-IHE's educational programme in water conflict management. Today's world is facing increasing challenges to manage its water resources particularly where these are scarce, making water users and uses compete with each other...
DELFT, 11 March 2013 - UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education launched its Open Course Ware platform today at the start of the Open Education Week. The Institute aims to make all of its educational materials available as Open Course Ware by 2017.
On 8 March 2013, Mr. Solomon Seyoum from Ethiopia successfully presented and defended his PhD thesis and was awarded with a Doctoral degree. Professor Dimitri Solomatine was his promoter. The PhD research focused on the development and application of an urban flood modelling tool to address the...
The Delft Urban Water Movie Contest challenges you to visualize what it is like living with water in a city. How would you cope with the daily opportunities and risks related to urban water? What do these opportunities and risks look like?
For the research project "Co-management of wetland ecosystems and irrigation for enhancing livelihoods in the Lake Victoria Basin" the Egerton University (Kenya) and UNESCO-IHE (Netherlands) are looking for three motivated and highly qualified Post Doctoral fellows.
On 8 February 2013, three Indonesian alumni visited the Institute, accompanied by the Mayor of Palembang City. The alumni graduated a few years ago from the Double Degree MSc programme on Integrated Lowland Development and Management Planning. The first year of the programme takes place at the S...
