Dr. Giuliano Di Baldassarre, Senior Lecturer in Hydroinformatics Systems at UNESCO-IHE, received the American Geophysical Union (AGU) 2012 Hydrologic Sciences Early Career Award during the AGU fall meeting in San Francisco from 3 to 7 December 2012. The award recognizes outstanding research, edu...
The newly developed Environmental Flows online course introduces the concept of environmental flows, explains why they are necessary, how to assess and implement them and what they can and cannot achieve.
The UNESCO-IHE Global Campus for Water & Development is an international UNESCO-IHE networking organization with education and research sites as well as nodes of excellence. The Global Campus will close the gap in the broad field of specialist capacity needed in the field of water worldwide...
On 19 November 2012 the World Water Council announced that its members have elected a new Board of Governors. The Board will oversee and guide the Council’s work for the coming three years. Mr. Benedito Braga was elected President of the World Water Council
On Wednesday 21 November 2012, Gerhard van den Top of Vitens Evides International and András Szöllösi-Nagy of UNESCO-IHE signed an MoA to cooperate on the development of water companies in developing countries and countries in transition at a meeting held at UNESCO-IHE in Delft.
Being part of this consortium, UNESCO-IHE's Rosh Ranasinghe, associate professor in coastal engineering, and his Australian colleagues from the University of Queensland will receive approximately 0.5 Million AUD over a period of 3 years (2013-2015) for the development and validation of an innova...
On 15 November 2012, Mr. Saeed Abdallah Baghoth successfully presented and defended his PhD thesis and was awarded with a Doctoral degree. Professor Gary Amy was his promoter. The PhD research focused on ‘Characterizing Natural Organic Matter in Drinking Water Treatment Processes and Trains'.
On 12 and 13 November 2012, the President of Rotary International Mr. Tanaka visited UNESCO-IHE. He was accompanied by a group of high-level Rotarians from various districts. The Rotarians were very keen on meeting the 9 professionals who recently started an MSc programme with a Rotary scholarsh...
On 12 November 2012, Mr. Ali Dastgheib 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 ‘Long-Term Process-Based Morphological Modeling of Large Tidal Basins'.
UNESCO-IHE's Rector has been invited to serve on the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) Board from 2013 to 2017.
