On 24 January 2012, Ms. Amel Moustafa Azab successfully presented and defended her PhD thesis and was awarded with a Doctoral degree. Professor Roland Price was her promoter. The PhD research focused on ‘Integrating GIS, Remote Sensing, and Mathematical Modelling for Surface Water Quality Manage...
The UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education and partners were awarded a US$8 million grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The grant will be used to finance a five year capacity building and research project to stimulate local innovation on sanitation for the urban poor in sub-Sahar...
On 12 January 2012, Mr. George Samuel Lutterodt 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 ‘Transport of Multiple Escherichia Coli Strains in Saturated Porous Media'
UNESCO-IHE has signed an MoU with the Maastricht School of Management (MSM) to cooperate in post graduate education, research and capacity development.
The International Masters Programme in Environmental Technology and Engineering (IMETE) is an Erasmus Mundus programme in which students study in three countries: Belgium, the Czech Republic and the Netherlands. Participants start their study at UNESCO-IHE.
The recent flooding that occurred last October and November in Thailand was estimated to be one of the worst floods in decades. Thus, the Thai government together with the UNESCO Bangkok office organized a foreign expert mission to assess flood impacts in the Ayutthaya/Bangkok region. Zoran Voji...
On 13 December 2011, Mr. Eric Antwi Ofosu successfully presented and defended his PhD thesis and was awarded with a Doctoral degree. Professor Pieter van der Zaag and Professor Nick van de Giesen were his promoters. The PhD research focused on ‘Sustainable Irrigation Development in the White Vol...
On 12 December 2011, Mr. Pushpa Kumara Dissanayake successfully presented and defended his PhD thesis and was awarded with a Doctoral degree. Professor Dano Roelvink was his promoter. The PhD research focused on ‘Modelling morphological response of large tidal inlet systems to sea level rise'.
On 6 December 2011, Mr. Michael Siek 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 ‘Predicting Storm Surges. Chaos, Computational Intelligence, Data Assimilation, Ensembles '.
EVANSTON, Ill., Nov. 29, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The global humanitarian organization Rotary and the UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education are teaming up to tackle the world's water and sanitation crisis by increasing the ranks of trained professionals critically needed to devise, pla...
