UNITED NATIONS EDUCATIONAL, SCIENTIFIC AND CULTURAL ORGANIZATION -UNESCO

Acronym: UNE-IHE

UNESCO-IHE is the largest UN international postgraduate water education and research facility in the world. UNESCO-IHE is an independent Category 1. Institute of UNESCO. The Institute confers fully accredited MSc degrees and promotes PhDs. Since 1957 the Institute has provided postgraduate education to more than 14,500 water professionals from over 160 countries, the vast majority from the developing world. Every year it receives more than 200 MSc students. Over 130 PhD fellows are currently enrolled and numerous research and capacity development projects are carried out throughout the world. In research, the expertise of the Institute is especially in problem oriented scientific and applied research that yields outcomes relevant to developing countries and countries in transition. UNESCO-IHE is, therefore, well positioned to play a key role in DANCERS in both advising on international cooperation and funding (under Task1.6), and on educational development and human capital development under Task 3.3. The latter will include developing needs and procedures for inter- and trans-disciplinary educational and research capacity building. Staff of the UNESCO-IHE has strong research and educational links with the lower Danube basin, especially in Romania and Serbia, and can apply state of the art understanding to a wide range of environmental issues affecting the river and delta. These range from hydrological modelling and river morphology, to impacts from nutrients, and sediment loads, and mechanisms and procedures for Integrated River Basin Management. Experience on post graduate education and understanding of didactic teaching and learning are considerable. This, coupled the knowledge and competencies required for international education, especially at post-graduate level, will be important for developing effective human capital to meet the challenged of sustainable resource management of the region.

Website: http://www.unesco.org

Address:
PLACE DE FONTENOY 7
75352 Paris
France

Projects:

• DANube macroregion: Capacity building and Excellence in River Systems (basin, delta and sea) (DANCERS)