On-campus, intensive and highly specialized courses
Our intensive and highly specialized short courses upgrade and refresh the knowledge and skills of students, mid-career professional and senior experts. Which ones suit you? Check the list further down this page!
For professionals
Short courses are meant for students or professionals with a specific area of interest and a limited amount of time. The focus and content of short courses vary from specialised and technical matters to challenges and approaches in management.
Didactical methods include lectures, assignments, individual or group exercises in the classroom, behind the computer, or in the laboratory. It’s all about active learning: each participant is responsible for his/her learning process and achievement. Fieldwork, excursions and field visits to relevant sites often are a part of a short course, allowing the participants to come into contact with practical examples of the theory offered. Through case studies, role-plays, debate and workshops, content is made more interactive, and experience that the participants already have is shared.
Admission Criteria
You should meet the prerequisites of the short course (available on the specific course page), and furthermore you should have a Bachelor Degree in a relevant field of study, preferably some years of working experience, and a good command of the English language to be admitted to the course (although you do not need to submit results of an English test). For a successful learning experience it is also essential to have basic skills in the use of computers and Office applications such as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
How to apply
You can find an apply button on the page of each short course listed below. If you decide to apply, create an account, or use your existing account to log in. After logging in, you will need to enter your personal information, and upload a scan of your passport, CV, BSc degree and transcript. Your BSc degree and transcript should be in English, French or Spanish. Your CV must be (translated) in English language.
Certificates
A Certificate of participation will be issued upon active participation in all sessions and submission of all formative assignments.
Academic credits (ECTS) will be issued (if applicable to the course) to those who (in addition to the above) successfully completed all summative assessments.
Scholarships
Click here to read about scholarships for short courses.
Questions?
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3+1 reasons why to sign up
Intensive learning
Immerse yourself in ten to fifteen days of active learning at the world's largest water training facility
Networking
Meet the water world at the IHE Delft campus and join the network of over 25.000 water professionals word-wide
World class lecturers
Learn with the no. 1 experts in water and development
Explore the water sector
Field trips and excursions are an integral part of most short courses
Upcoming Short Courses
IHE Delft offers a new range of short courses from 2023 onwards. Please check the list below for more information about each new course.
Groundwater Resources and Treatment
- Start date 2024(Registry closed)
The purpose of this course is to acquaint the participants with theoretical and practical knowledge, field experience, and innovations in IHE Delft research in the areas of conventional, as well as advanced methods for treatment of groundwater intended for water supply.
Managing Resilient Water Utilities
- Start date 2024(Cancelled)
Impacts of climate change on available water resources, increasing water demand and the growing societal concerns about environmental sustainability provide increasing challenges for water utilities. This course discusses how water utilities can become more resilient by investigating experiences of Dutch water utilities to increase resilience.
Citizen Science for Water Management and Sustainable Development
- Start date 2024(Cancelled)
This course will help you gain a basic understanding of the role and relevance of citizen science projects for water management and sustainable development, and provide you with an overview of the main concepts, best practices, steps and tools for designing and implementing water-related citizen science projects.
Sanitation Resource Recovery
- Start date 2024(Cancelled)
This short course introduces participants to different resource recovery opportunities along the sanitation chain.
Using Open Data, QGIS and HEC-RAS for Hydraulic Modelling
- Start date 2024
Deadline approaching
This course aims to provide the participants with the ability to find open access GIS data and more efficiently process data for their use in hydrodynamic models using QGIS and HEC-RAS.
Experimental Methods in Desalination and Membrane Technology
- Start date 2024
Deadline approaching
This course covers the fundamentals of membrane-based desalination and the experimental and analytical methods for water quality characterization applied in desalination and membrane technology processes for producing drinking and industrial water and water for irrigation.
Water Economics
- Start date 2024
Deadline approaching
This course provides an introduction to economic theory and approach as applied to water management. It is for professionals in water-related fields with no prior economic background.
Environmental and Social Impact Assessment at Project and Strategic Levels
- Start date 2024
This course is about the role of Strategic Environmental Assessment in guiding sectoral and regional planning towards sustainability, supporting strategic decision, and its links with the Environmental Impact Assessment practice. Participants are trained in integrating systems thinking, cumulative effects, and strategic thinking.
Remote Sensing for Agricultural Water Management
- Start date 2024
- Start date 2025
Develop skills to use remote sensing for land cover classification, estimating evapotranspiration, water productivity, irrigation performance assessment & irrigation water accounting.
Water Resources Planning under Changing Climate and Environment
- Start date 2024
Planning future utilization of water resources as part of economic development, while simultaneously maintaining integrity of the natural environment typically involves many interests. This course Introduces the major aspects and provides practical opportunity to experience the processes in multidisciplinary collaboration for targeted water resources planning within a development context.