On-campus, intensive and highly specialized courses
IHE Delft conducts a wide range of short, intensive and highly specialized courses which are aimed at upgrading and refreshing the knowledge and skills of students, mid-career professional and senior experts.
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.
Scholarships
Click here to read about MSP, OKP and Partial Delft Blue 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 23.000 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 2023
Deadline approaching
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.
Water Infrastructure Asset Management
- Start date 2023
- Start date 2024
Deadline approaching
Learn to prioritize allocating limited resources for sustainable maintenance and improvement of water systems including water/wastewater/drainage utilities, irrigation, flood and water management infrastructure. A mix of technical and non-technical topics under a risk-based framework for identification of the critical components of networks, life-cycle cost analysis and minimizing (inevitable) failure’s impacts.
Citizen Science for Water Management and Sustainable Development
- Start date 2023
The aim of this course is for participants to gain a basic understanding of the role and relevance of citizen science projects for water management and sustainable development, and to provide participants with an overview of the main concepts, best practices, and tools for designing and implementing water-related citizen science projects.
Stakeholders, Partnerships and Network Analysis
- Start date 2023(Cancelled)
- Start date 2024
This course will help you operate effectively in stakeholder networks and partnerships. Whether it is about drinking water and sanitation, agricultural water management, climate adaptation or water protection, always multiple stakeholders are involved, at different levels. This course offers theories and approaches to understand these multi-stakeholder partnerships and water networks.
Managing Resilient Water Utilities
- Start date 2023
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.
Experimental Methods in Desalination and Membrane Technology
- Start date 2023
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.
Ecosystem Services Assessment for Informed Decision Making
- Start date 2023
Ecosystems play an important role in sustaining and supporting humans and development sustainability. The ecosystem services framework is so developed to help holistically identify, measure, and quantify the importance, use and value of ecosystems to human society so as to allow consideration and mainstreaming of ecosystems in policy and development decision-making.
Environmental and Social Impact Assessment at Project and Strategic Levels
- Start date 2023
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 2023
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 2023
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.