UNESCO-IHE is organising the Lenvis Symposium 28 to 29 November 2011 in Delft, the Netherlands. The theme of the event is about innovative tools for collaborative decision making, web services and phone applications in the water and air domains. There will be a special section dedicated to phone...
DELFT, 20 JULY 2011 - UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education and partners were awarded a US$8 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The grant will be used to excel postgraduate sanitation education and research with a focus on solutions for the urban poor in sub-Saharan A...
Rotary Foundation Trustee Stephen Brown and Senior Supervisor for Strategic Partnership Dori Dinsmore visited UNESCO-IHE on Thursday 14 July. The purpose of the visit was to discuss collaboration possibilities with UNESCO-IHE.
Have you ever wondered where drinking water comes from and where it goes?
Investigate where the water you drink originates from: the ground, your own well or do you drink bottled water? How has the water been treated before it was made available for drinking?
We challenge you to tell the sto...
Amit Kumar won an award from the Air & Waste Management Association international doctoral dissertation award 2011 with his PhD thesis in Biological Engineering. The thesis is entitled "Mass transport and degradation of gaseous pollutants in membrane biofilm reactors: an environmental b...
On Friday 1 July, 77 participants from 21 countries received their UNESCO-IHE Short Course certificates. The participants took part in the June Short Course group in the following courses: Aquatic Ecosystems: Processes & Applications, Applied Groundwater Modelling, Environmental System Model...
Mr. Mohammad Asef Rahimi, Afghan Minister of Agriculture, Irrigation and Livestock visited UNESCO-IHE on Friday, 24 June. The high-level delegation was in the Netherlands on an official visit to sign agreements with Dutch Ministries and also visited the Institute for an introductory meeting.
UNESCO-IHE held a mini-symposium on climate change adaptation in the Mekong river basin on 24 June. The event also served as a platform for the eight post-docs who are working in the Post-Doctoral Research Programme on Adaptation to Climate Change (PRoACC) in the Mekong River Basin to present pr...
On the 21th of June 2011, Mr. Ilyas Masih successfully presented and defended his PhD thesis and was awarded with a Doctoral degree. Professor Stefan Uhlenbrook was his promoter. The PhD research focused on 'UNDERSTANDING HYDROLOGICAL VARIABILITY FOR IMPROVED WATER MANAGEMENT. IN THE SEMI-ARID K...
Mr. Kiwon Jang, Ambassador and Permanent Delegate of the Republic of Korea to UNESCO in Paris and Mr. Myung Soo Kim, Science Attaché visited Delft on 31 May to discuss cooperation possibilities between the Republic of Korea and UNESCO-IHE.
