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IHE Delft alumna hosts water justice podcast featuring Joyeeta Gupta
A recent podcast episode that highlights how crucial water justice is for the well-being of both humans and the environment features IHE Delft alumna Safa Fanian as host, and IHE Delft Professor Joyeeta Gupta - her former teacher - as guest speaker.
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IHE Delft & Deltares sign cooperation agreement
IHE Delft and Deltares will further strengthen their collaboration under a cooperation agreement signed 6 March by IHE Delft Rector Eddy Moors and Deltares Director Dirk Jan Walstra
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Assessing the state of freshwater biodiversity monitoring: A global perspective
Freshwater ecosystems play a vital role in sustaining biodiversity and supporting human livelihoods. Monitoring and assessing the health of these key ecosystems on a global scale is as crucial as it is challenging: a lack of harmonization leads to data that can’t be easily compared. A new open-source paper charts a way forward.
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Proposal call: Water and Development Partnership Programme
IHE Delft’s Water and Development Partnership Programme invites proposals for projects in the water sector with focus on research, education and/or capacity strengthening activities. This call for proposals targets inter- and transdisciplinary projects from non-European low-and middle-income countries that align with the programme’s focus, philosophy and approach. A maximum of 14 projects will be selected, each receiving a budget ranging from €50,000 to €100,000 for a working duration of two to three years.
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New collaboration: IHE Delft & Utrecht University Geosciences
IHE Delft and the Faculty of Geosciences at Utrecht University entered a collaborative partnership with the signing of a cooperation agreement. The agreement demonstrates the shared vision on both education and research between the two Institutions.
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Call for applications: Join the Network of Afghan and Iranian Water Scholars
Are you an inspired water scholar from Afghanistan or Iran? The Network of Afghan and Iranian Water Scholars (NAIWS) invites you—researchers, academics, scientists, graduate students, and other scholars—to apply and become a member of this growing community.
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More4nature project kicks off at IHE Delft: Citizen science for environmental conservation
The more4nature project kicked off at IHE Delft recently, bringing together 21 partner organizations who will use Citizen Science to address widespread environmental degradation across Europe, Latin America, Africa, and Asia. The partners came from the United Kingdom, Bolivia, Denmark, Norway, Spain, Germany, Belgium, Ukraine, Portugal and Poland to launch the four-year collaborative effort with a two-day meeting at the beginning of February.
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Water & development: New open-source archive offers access to rich knowledge
A growing collection of journal publications, training and course materials, toolkits, software applications, policy briefs, videos, podcasts, datasets and more, all related to water and development, are now available at the click of a button, thanks to a new online repository. The resource includes contextualised knowledge developed by partners from low- and middle-income countries spanning multiple regions, in particular, the Middle East, the Horn of Africa and the Sahel.
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Iraqi officials strengthen their collaborative approach to water management and governance
Addressing Iraq’s water challenges requires a collaborative, comprehensive approach, high-level speakers told the opening session of a tailor-made IHE Delft course for Iraqi officials, noting that the course aims to develop capacity for a sustainable future. Officials from the Iraqi Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Water Resources and Agriculture are taking part in the Water Management and Governance course, which combines online learning with in-person onsite workshops. The course’s collaborative approach is geared to the co-creation of knowledge by exchanging ideas from various perspectives.
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New Special Issue: the use of data & models in transboundary water governance
Newer methods of data collection and processing, including remote sensing and artificial intelligence, are already influencing decisions related to transboundary waters and the way knowledge about such waters is developed. Using these new tools in politically sensitive situations requires conscious engagement. A new Water International Special Issue collects practice-based research to promote learning.