The Delft Urban Water Movie Contest challenges you to visualize what it is like living with water in a city. How would you cope with the daily opportunities and risks related to urban water? What do these opportunities and risks look like?
For the research project "Co-management of wetland ecosystems and irrigation for enhancing livelihoods in the Lake Victoria Basin" the Egerton University (Kenya) and UNESCO-IHE (Netherlands) are looking for three motivated and highly qualified Post Doctoral fellows.
On 8 February 2013, three Indonesian alumni visited the Institute, accompanied by the Mayor of Palembang City. The alumni graduated a few years ago from the Double Degree MSc programme on Integrated Lowland Development and Management Planning. The first year of the programme takes place at the S...
Zaki Shubber has recently started her career at UNESCO-IHE as lecturer in law and water diplomacy in the Integrated Water Systems and Governance department. By doing so she changed the course of her career completely having come from the corporate world. Read her story here.
On 14 February 2013, twelve students graduated from the two-year MSc programme on Integrated Lowland Development and Management Planning (one year at the Sriwijaya University, Indonesia and one year at UNESCO-IHE, Land and Water Development).
Bipin Dangol is studying Environmental Science at UNESCO-IHE. He has been interviewed for the Study in Holland programme of Nuffic about why he decided to come to study in Holland. Watch the video testimonial of Bipin Dangol here.
On 11 February, the youth event for the launching of the 2013 International Year of Water Cooperation organized by UNESCO took place in Paris. Twenty MSc and PhD students of UNESCO-IHE attended this event to share their knowledge and ideas on water cooperation.
On 6-7 February 2013, the UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education convened an expert meeting on capacity development and water-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The meeting gathered 25 international experts and was held in order to contribute the institute's expertise in water secto...
On 11 February 2013, the International Year of Water Cooperation was officially launched at UNESCO headquarters in Paris. Given the intrinsic nature of water as a transversal and universal resource, a multidisciplinary approach is needed where social scientists, water managers, policy makers, me...
On 6 February 2013, Mr. Collin Calvin Mabiza successfully presented and defended his PhD thesis and was awarded with a Doctoral degree. Professor Pieter van der Zaag was his promoter. The PhD research focused on integrated water resources management, institutions and livelihoods under stres...