Joint Programmes
UNESCO-IHE is making efforts to make water education more accessible and affordable to increasing numbers of students. One way of doing this is the development of joint programmes with partner institutions. Since 1997, for example, the Institute’s Limnology and Wetland Ecosystems specialisation has been delivered in cooperation with the Austrian Academy of Sciences, in which the participants conduct their research in Kenya, Tanzania or Uganda.
Since 2005, UNESCO-IHE has offered an MSc programme in Hydroinformatics together with Hohai University in China. Recently, the Institute has signed an agreement with the University of Sriwijaya in Indonesia to offer a double degree MSc programme in lowland development.
Plans are also under way to launch a joint coastal engineering programme with Hohai, a hydroinformatics programme of the Indian Institute of Technology in Roorkie, India, and a water governance programme with the IHP-HELP Centre for Water Law, Policy and Science (Scotland) and the Collaborative Knowledge Network (CK-Net), Indonesia.