E-newsletter
October 2025 |
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Apply & learn: 15 new IHE Delft short courses in Water & Sustainable Development |
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City-Wide Inclusive Sanitation - This course aims to enhance understanding and application of the City-Wide Inclusive Sanitation (CWIS) approach in addressing urban sanitation challenges, promoting a paradigm shift towards sustainable sanitation service provision.
Application deadline: 1 Nov 2025 |
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Organizing Water - This course focuses on how water management is organized in the Global South and the Global North, and what choices are made in that process. The course emphasizes the complexity of water management and the increasing need for coordination and integration between sectors, stakeholders and scales.
Application deadline: 12 Dec 2025 |
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On-site Sanitation and Treatment - On-site sanitation is the most common form of sanitation around the world. In this course, you will explore these systems holistically, from the superstructure to treatment, gaining a full understanding of how they function and can be improved.
Application deadline: 12 Dec 2025 |
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Graduation IHE Delft MSc in Water and Sustainable Development: With knowledge comes responsibility |
Addressing the 64 graduates from 29 countries who graduated with a MSc degree in Water and Sustainable Development, graduation speaker Kathleen Ferrier, Chair of the Netherlands Commission for UNESCO, called on the new IHE Delft alumni to carry the flame of education into the world and use their knowledge to change lives, communities and continents. |
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Apply now for IAEA Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship Programme |
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship Programme (MSCFP) is now open to female applicants at IHE Delft. The competitive fellowship includes most of the costs related to MSc studies at IHE Delft for successful female candidates. Application deadline is 31 October. |
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Are you pursuing doctoral or postdoctoral research? Apply now for the 2026 Schlumberger Foundation Faculty for the Future fellowships |
The Schlumberger Foundation is accepting applications for its 2026 Faculty for the Future fellowships! This programme promotes gender equality in STEM by funding women from low- and middle-income countries to pursue PhDs or postdoctoral research at leading universities abroad. Learn more and apply by 7 November 2025! |
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Professor Uta Wehn’s inaugural address: Citizen science key for sustainability |
Making citizen science matter — that is the goal of Uta Wehn, newly appointed Professor of Citizen Science and Sustainability, and the key message of her inaugural lecture, delivered earlier this month in Leiden. Wehn has a long track record of research into the role of science and innovation in society and sustainability. |
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Million Bekele Demissie from Ethiopia wins 2025 IHE Delft Alumni Award |
The 2025 IHE Delft Alumni Award winner, Million Bekele Demissie, has brought clean and safe water and energy to millions in Ethiopia. Graduating in 2012 from IHE Delft – UNESCO – with an MSc in Water Science and Engineering, specializing in Hydro-Informatics, she has been recognized by the IHE Delft jury for her transformative impact on communities and the country’s water and energy sector. She will return to the Netherlands in November to be honoured at the Opening Academic Year & Alumni Award Ceremony. |
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Water and Development Symposium 2025 |
Join us for the third annual symposium of the Water and Development Partnership Programme! Together with our projects and partners, we will unpack strongly debated migration narratives to provide insights, experiences and critical perspectives towards more informed development practices and policy responses to water, climate challenges and human mobility. |
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Coastal Risk Index finalist for 2025 Anthem Awards |
The open-source platform Coastal Risk Index (CRI), an online risk assessment tool for vulnerable coastal ecosystems developed by a team including Johan Reyns, IHE Delft Lecturer/Researcher in Coastal Morphodynamics and Rosh Ranasinghe, IHE Delft Professor of Climate Change Impacts & Coastal Risk, has been selected as a finalist for the 2025 Anthem Awards. The award celebrates individuals and organisations making outstanding contributions to social impact and inspiring global change. |
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Delft Agenda 2.0: Four provocations for more just water capacity development |
As part of IHE Delft 7th International Symposium on Knowledge and Capacity for the Water Sector, 11 young delegates developed the Delft Agenda 2.0. The agenda poses four provocative questions to foster a more local, inclusive and transformative approach to capacity development. |
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Explore our free online courses
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Do you want to advance your skills at your own pace? Explore our free online courses. From 'Fundamentals of Freshwater Health' to the importance of 'Water Cooperation and Diplomacy', and many more. Our free access courses on key topics enable participants to strengthen their knowledge and ability to make an impact for a better water future. Certification is available for some courses. |
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Open-access IHE Delft Institutional Repository
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Did you know that you can find IHE Delft PhD dissertations, MSc theses, Open Access journal articles, book chapters and preprint publications in the open-access IHE Delft Institutional Repository? Enjoy browsing! |
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Visiting address
IHE Delft
Westvest 7
2611 AX Delft
The Netherlands
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Postal address
IHE Delft
PO Box 3015
2601 DA Delft
The Netherlands
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