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...
On November 7, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education formalized their Partnership Agreement providing Knowledge and Innovation Support for ADB's Water Financing Program.
Twenty PhD Positions are available in the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Funded Project on Pro-poor Sanitation Innovations, named "Stimulating local innovation on sanitation for the urban poor in sub-Saharan Africa and South-East Asia".
Four Post-doc Positions are available in the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Funded Project on Pro-poor Sanitation Innovations, named "Stimulating local innovation on sanitation for the urban poor in sub-Saharan Africa and South-East Asia".
UNESCO-IHE's senior lecturer in Hydroinformatics Systems, Giuliano Di Baldassarre has been awarded the 2012 Division Outstanding Young Scientist Award.
Thursday 20 October 2011, marked the day that UNESCO-IHE officially welcomed 155 Masters of Science participants from developing countries. Prof. András Szöllösi-Nagy, Rector, welcomed the participants in the auditorium in the presence of many high-level guests, members of the diplomatic communi...
