Event Category Archives: Related conferences, workshops and symposia

International Disaster and Risk Conference Davos

IDRC Davos 2014 attempts to find solutions to today’s challenges by managing risks, reducing disasters and adapting to climate change. Focussing on a multi-sectors, multi-stakeholders  and multi-disciplines approach IDRC helps to build stronger ties with adequate public-private partnership models among risk management communities and sectors, enabling a move towards a truly integrative way of thinking […]

13th International Conference on Urban Drainage

Urban Drainage in the Context of Integrated Urban Water Management: A Bridge between Developed and Developing Countries The conference is aimed at looking at the most recent ideas, technologies, behaviours, economics and policies related to centralised and decentralised systems for managing urban drainage as part of an integrated approach to the water cycle.

4th International Conference on Building Resilience

When confronted with increasing risks and vulnerabilities caused by natural hazards and amplified by rising population and infrastructures in urban areas, the importance of resilience becomes more and more evident. Applying both to the structures that humans build and to the way society perceives and reacts to disasters, the notion of resilience has been widely […]

6th International Conference on Flood Management

The 6th International Conference on Flood Management (ICFM6) marks the continued advancement of flood management practices and policies around the world. The name change from “Defence” as used in the previous four events to “Management” is reflective of the more integrative approaches to flood management that nations are increasingly employing. The first International Symposium on Flood […]

Deltas in Times of Climate Change II

International Conference – Opportunities for People, Science, Cities and Business Floods in Bangkok and the Thames delta, salt intrusion in Egypt and Bangladesh: these are just some examples of rising risks to deltas and delta cities driven by climate change. Action is required now. Exchanging scientific knowledge, lessons learned and best practices is vital. Find […]

EurOCEAN 2014

EurOCEAN 2014 EurOCEAN 2014 will bring together marine scientists across the broad range of disciplines with policymakers, industry and NGOs, to develop a common vision on achieving an ecosystem approach to the management of Europe’s marine resources as a fundamental requirement for sustainable Blue Growth. Highlighting the importance of Blue Growth and of commercially-driven, problem-oriented […]

Resilience: Just do it?!

Governing for resilience in vulnerable places An international workshop organized by the Coastal Resilience Research Group, University of Groningen, Faculty of Spatial Sciences. The term ‘resilience’ has remarkably quickly gained currency in academia as well as in practice and is nowadays widely promoted as a promising concept to deal with shocks and uncertainties in the […]

DAAD Science Tour 2014

On the occasion of the Year of Science 2014 “Digital Society”, launched by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) has invited international scientists to learn more about research activities in the area of modelling future scenarios at German universities and research institutes. Within the DAAD Science Tour 2014, 27 international researchers visited the Institute […]

International Conference on Water Resources, Coastal and Ocean Engineering

The Department of Applied Mechanics and Hydraulics is organizing the International Conference on Water Resources, Coastal and Ocean Engineering (ICWRCOE’15) with a view to provide a platform for Researchers, Engineers, Scientists and Academicians as well as Industrial Professionals from all over the globe to present their research results and developmental activities in the areas of […]