“Education and Capacity Development”
Summer Schools
- 16th International German Summer School on Hydrology (IGSH) – Groundwater and Agriculture
- Potsdam Summer School 2021
- 15th International German Summer School on Hydrology (IGSH) – Groundwater and Urbanization
- 14th International German Summer School on Hydrology (IGSH 2020) – Groundwater and Energy
- 13th “International German Summer School on Hydrology (IGSH 2019) – Groundwater and Agriculture”
- 12. International German Summer School on Hydrology (IGSH 2018) on ”Groundwater and Urbanization”
- 11th International German Summer School on Hydrology (IGSH 2017)
- Summer School „Plastics in Marine and Freshwater Environments“ – Koblenz, Germany, 16 – 21 July 2017
- Provocative Hypotheses on the interactions of climate change and water resources – Koppelsberg, Germany, 13 – 19 August 2017
- International German Summer School on Hydrology: “Groundwater and Agriculture” – Bochum, Germany, 14 – 28 September 2016
- Blended Learning in Hydrology – Aachen, Germany, 31 August – 3 September 2015
E-Learning
- ICWRGC at EGU 2025
- OUTLAST Evaluation Workshop
- ICWRGC and BfG at Tag der Hydrologie 2025
- International Year of Glaciers’ Preservation 2025
- ICWRGC data activities: Updates from ISMN and GWDC in 2024
- Scientists in Koblenz help to recognise global droughts at an early stage
- International centres at BfG celebrate anniversary
- Dr. Tinh Vu
- Joint contribution of environmental factors to changes in the global discharge regime
- WASCAL Call for Students and Germany-Based Supervisors
- ICWRGC promotes data exchange and capacity development at the African Water Week, Cairo Water Week and Africa Hydrology Conference
- ICWRGC co-organizes 2024 EUMETSAT Satellite Conference Session
- WMO Report Highlights Decline in Global Soil Moisture Levels in 2023
- SGSP Students gain new Insights in Germany
- UN-Water releases new progress report on UN SDG indicator 6.3.2
- Professor Dr. Lars Ribbe Appointed New Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board for the German IHP/HWRP committee
- ICWRGC at EGU 2024
- World Water Day 2024 – Water for Peace
- Unveiling Earth’s Secrets: The Crucial Role of In Situ Observations in Climate and Hydrological Research
- Global soil moisture database celebrates first year at ICWRGC/BfG
- 24th WaterNet/WARFSA/GWP-SA Symposium on “Accelerating Change: Fostering Innovation and Integration for Sustainable Water Resources Management in Eastern and Southern Africa”
- ICWRGC supports the International Conference on Mountain Hydrology and Cryosphere (ICMHC-2023) in Kathmandu, Nepal
- ICWRGC at EGU 24
- Facing climate and water change impacts in Central Asia
- Doctoral thesis defense of Ms. Abby Daniela Ortega Sandoval, supervised by PD Dr. Luna Bharati
- WMO: Progress on Hydrology at 19th Congress
- Doctoral thesis defense of Dr. Luna Bharati’s PhD student
- Global FRIEND-Water 2023 International Conference
- New Staff Interview – Tinh Vu
- ICWRGC at Science for Sustainable Livelihoods Forum in Mittweida
- ICWRGC and BfG scientists at the EGU General Assembly 2023
- Trends in climate disaster impacts in a least developed country
- The role of academia in communicating environmental conflicts
- Case study on the implementation of Sustainable Drainage Systems
- Dr. Layla Hashweh
- Find us at EGU 2023
- Hydrology Day 2023 at RUB Bochum
- Accelerating Change: World Water Day 2023 and the UN 2023 Water Conference
- New EURO-FRIEND workshop/training series from 03/2023 until 12/2023
- Dr. Renee van Dongen-Köster
- ICWRGC to co-organize “Science for Sustainable Livelihoods” Forum
- ICWRGC Outlook 2023
- ICWRGC: New Head of Research and Education Division
- Dr. Tunde Olarinoye
- Discussing the fundamental importance of observation data at GCOS conference in Darmstadt
- 9th FRIEND-Water Global conference 2023
- New GCOS Implementation Plan Released
- Networking between water-relevant German UNESCO sites – joint DUK and ICWRGC Workshop in Bonn on 13 July 2022
- ICWRGC engages with government officials from the Ganges River Basin
- URSACHEN: Virtual Symposium
- Dr. Matthias Zink
- Job advertisement: Research scientist (m/f/d) (PhD/Master)
- SASSCAL Graduate Studies Programme in Integrated Water Resources Management Official Launch
- EURO-FRIEND p3 Workshop/training series – 2022
- First on-site master student at ICWRGC since COVID Pandemic
- 16th International German Summer School on Hydrology (IGSH) – Groundwater and Agriculture
- Bonn Water Lectures: Corruption in the water sector – how integrity management contributes to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals
- CHR celebrates its 50th anniversary
- Successful Start of Water Data Workshop Serial in West- and Central Asia
- The REMODEL Project at the First German Reproducibility Day
- CO-MICC Portal official launch
- Luna Bharati – new contact person for the PhD programme SASSCAL at the ICWRGC
- PD Dr. Luna Bharati
- Announcing Call for PhD Scholarships – 2021
- SASSCAL
- Promoting capacity building: UNESCO Centres ICWRGC and IRTCES organize joint UNESCO Training Workshop on Sediment Monitoring for Sustainable River Management in collaboration with the BfG
- Interactive Story Maps on SDG Indicator 6.3.2
- German HÖRZU Magazine Interviews Harald Köthe, Director of ICWRGC
- MedECC
- Hydrology Day 2021
- Nutrient Loads in South Africa
- German UNESCO Commission (DUK) Celebrates 70th Anniversary of its Founding
- New Master thesis: „Sustainability of Groundwater in the Mediterranean in the Context of Climate Change – An Investigation of Groundwater Recharge Projections using an Ensemble of Global Hydrological Models”
- New 6.3.2 Status Report
- MoU signed between IHE Delft (The Netherlands) and ICWRGC (Germany)
- Dr. Marianela Fader interviewed by JUNIA magazine
- How moist is the earth’s soil? Germany’s International Water Centre (ICWRGC) and Federal Institute of Hydrology (BfG) take over the permanent operation of the global soil moisture network ISMN from TU Wien
- World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought
- Potsdam Summer School 2021
- 15th International German Summer School on Hydrology (IGSH) – Groundwater and Urbanization
- Research assistant (university graduation / Master) (m/f/d)
- vEGU21: Our participation and perceptions
- Online consultation on WMO Action Plan for Hydrology open until 25 May 2021
- GEMStat: New water quality data from Germany
- Water Supply Strategies
- 2nd Announcement for the 29th Conference of the Regional Cooperation Hydrology of the Danube Countries (IHP Danube) – Call for Papers
- New master thesis: “Analysis of the global variation in river discharge-sediment transport relationship”
- REMODEL
- Expert network MedECC is awarded North-South Prize by Council of Europe
- Multiple-cropping and cropland expansion in Brazil influence water productivity
- What ecologists should know before using land-use/cover change projections for biodiversity and ecosystem service assessments
- Climate and Environmental Change in the Mediterranean Basin – Current Situation and Risks for the Future
- Story Map on GEMS/Water
- Studies about green water in Brazil and biodiversity scenarios
- New scientific associate in the CO-MICC project team
- WMO under way to preparing its new Data Policy
- Start of URSACHEN project sampling campaigns
- Lecture on groundwater recharge in the climate change context at IWRA Conference
- GTN-H status report on monitoring and data exchange concerning global terrestrial water cycle and water resources published
- 14th International German Summer School on Hydrology (IGSH 2020) – Groundwater and Energy
- 5 international UNESCO-Category-2-Water-Centres to hold joint session during Cairo Water Week, 18 – 22 October 2020
- Paving the Way for WMO’s Future Hydrology Strategy
- Is there enough water in the world for everyone?
- ICWRGC and SASSCAL sign Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)
- IHP Danube: Publication of New Monograph on Flood Regime of Rivers in Danube River Basin
- Abou Amani New Interim-Director of UNESCO-IHP Secretariat
- Online Courses on hydrology – 2020
- GRDC Data Download provides River Discharge Data online
- URSACHEN Project
- 75th anniversary of the United Nations
- ISI – Training Workshop “River Basin Sediment Monitoring and Management”
- European water-quality monitoring data in GEMStat database undergoes major update
- Global groundwater models: new endeavour for hydrologists facing multiple challenges
- ICWRGC to present at “EGU2020 – Sharing Geoscience Online
- MSc. Thesis Opportunities at the ICWRGC
- Impacts of changing precipitation intensity on groundwater recharge and risks to groundwater availability in the Mediterranean
- Development of an uncertainty framework for suspended sediment loads in rivers
- Development of an uncertainty framework for contaminant and nutrient loads in rivers
- The United Nations’ World Water Day 2020 emphasizes the importance of the topic of “Water and Climate change”
- Newly appointed Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) takes up work
- ICWRGC presents recent scientific advance at EGU meeting
- Why not become a hydrology expert with WMO?
- GEMS/Water Regional Workshop for West Asia
- New scientific officer part of ICWRGC
- Internship work: The Importance of Cooperation Between Transboundary River Countries
- Kickoff Meeting URSACHEN Project
- Iran’s Regional UNESCO Centre on Urban Water Management (RCUWM) launched its 3rd phase
- Assessment of Future Impacts of Climate Change, Land Use Change and Water Demand on Freshwater Resources in the Mediterranean Region – A Meta-Analysis
- Uncertainty Quantification Framework for Nutrient Load Estimation
- Germany re-elected: four more years in the Council of UNESCO’s IHP Water Programme
- New UNESCO Chair “Human-Water-Systems“ at the University of Bonn
- Dr. Moritz Heinle
- New scientific officer at the ICWRGC
- Contribution to GEO Ministerial Summit
- Harald Köthe
- 2nd Meeting of the World Water Quality Alliance
- 13th “International German Summer School on Hydrology (IGSH 2019) – Groundwater and Agriculture”
- 9th Session of the Global Terrestrial Network for Hydrology (GTN-H)
- ICWRGC’s visit to the Dutch UNESCO Category 2-Centre Delft IHE
- Apply now: Scientific officer (m/w/d), M. Sc. in Geosciences, Social Sciences, Cultural or Communication Sciences
- 18th WMO Congress Takes Landmark Decisions
- Scientific officer wanted
- The ICWRGC celebrates its 5th anniversary as UNESCO Category 2 Water Centre
- TUM master-student is doing research on MedECC project at ICWRGC
- ICWRGC supports Master thesis on “Uncertainty Quantification of Nutrient Load Estimations in Brazil”
- United Nations World Water Development Report 2019
- Observed Impact on Water Resources in the Mediterranean Region: A Meta-Analysis
- UNESCO International Water Conference
- Special Issue on ERB 2018 International Conference in Publication
- 4th European Climate Change Adaptation Conference (ECCA)
- ICWRGC’s University Day of Hydrology
- 6th Governing Board Meeting of the ICWRGC
- International Forum for SDG6 “Sustainable Urban Water and Sanitation: Public Goods in the Service of Society”
- Meeting of the Euromediterranean Network of Experimental and Representative Basins (ERB)
- Participation in the Water-Energy-Food (WEF) Nexus Academy
- Hydrology Day 2019
- GCOS Joint Panels Meeting
- BMZ Stakeholders‘ Forum on Water
- Science-Policy-Business Forum and UNEA-4
- GEMS/Water: Regional Workshop for Eastern Europe and Central Asia
- MedECC booklet published
- GEMS/Water: Training Workshop for the Mekong River Commission
- Keynote at the GRoW Mid-Term Conference
- Most viewed and downloaded article in the 4th quarter of 2018
- CO-MICC Workshop: Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia (MAT) Focus Region Workshop I
- CO-MICC Workshop: Ebro Focus Region Workshop I
- First CO-MICC newsletter is online
- Kick-off Event for a Global Water Quality Assessment
- Mobilisation for the “Water Data and Peace” Initiative
- UN-Water Side Event auf UNFCCC COP24
- National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC)
- Toward an Understanding of Synergies and Trade-Offs between Water, Energy, and Food SDG Targets
- D. Kolesch – Master’s student from the Technical University of Munich
- 7th Africa Water Week
- WMO acknowledges 30 years Global Runoff Data Centre (GRDC) in Koblenz, Germany
- Climate change and interconnected risks to sustainable development in the Mediterranean – 2018
- Summer of 2018 in Germany: Extreme heat and drought cause lowest water levels ever recorded
- Master’s student from the Technical University of Munich
- Reconciling global-model estimates and country reporting of anthropogenic forest CO2 sinks – 2018
- SDG Indikator 6.3.2
- B. Torres Vara – Master’s student from the Technical University of Munich
- SDG 6.3.2 Technical Feedback Meeting
- Climatic and hydrological extremes: linking the instrumental period of the last decades with the more distant past
- GloSS: 3rd database meeting
- International Training Workshop on Integrated Sediment Management in River Basins
- SDG 6 Synthesis Report on Water and Sanitation – 2018
- Dipl. Geol. Harald Köthe succeeds Prof. Dr. Demuth as the Director of the International Centre for Water Resources and Global Change (ICWRGC).
- Prof. Dr. Siegfried Demuth, Director of the International Centre for Water Resources and Global Change (ICWRGC), located at the Federal Institute of Hydrology (BfG) in Koblenz, Germany, will retire on 01 September 2018.
- The relationship between past climate and prehistoric Mediterranean agriculture – 2018
- PLA-NET – a platform on plastics in freshwater and coastal environments to boost information exchange between various global regions
- Intern from the IHE Delft Institute for Water Education, the Netherlands
- Visit by J. Oster, Member of the German Bundestag, to the Federal Institute of Hydrology (BfG)
- IFAT 2018
- EGU General Assembly
- 8th World Water Forum
- Hydrology Day – 2018
- Water Museum – 2018
- Training course on flood risk assessment
- Bringing it all together: linking measures to secure nations’ food supply (COSUS) – 2017
- 17th Biennial Conference ERB 2018 – Darmstadt, Germany – 11-14 September 2018
- TH Köln – Call for Applications for Master Courses and Scholarships – 2018
- Preventing Conflicts, Fostering Cooperation – The many Roles of Water Diplomacy – 2017
- The Global Terrestrial Network – Hydrology
- 12. International German Summer School on Hydrology (IGSH 2018) on ”Groundwater and Urbanization”
- 8th Global FRIEND-Water Conference – Beijing, China – 6-9 November 2018
- Internships, Master and Bachelor theses
- Workshop – Risk-based Hydrologic Engineering Design Standards – Koblenz, 24-25 April 2017
- 11th International German Summer School on Hydrology (IGSH 2017)
- The Value of Water Information – 2017
- Water – the Blue Gold – 2017
- OER – Open Educational Ressource Initiative, Aachen
- Advanced techniques for monitoring water quality using Earth Observation – 2017
- CO-MICC
- Workshop – Assessment and Management of Indirect Potable Reuse – Koblenz, Germany, 6 – 8 March 2018
- Summer School „Plastics in Marine and Freshwater Environments“ – Koblenz, Germany, 16 – 21 July 2017
- Provocative Hypotheses on the interactions of climate change and water resources – Koppelsberg, Germany, 13 – 19 August 2017
- Water Diplomacy – 2017
- Water Cooperation – 2017
- Floodlabel
- Climate change impacts in the Middle East and Northern Africa (MENA) region and their implications for vulnerable population groups (Reg. Env. Change) – 2017
- Stephan Dietrich
- XXVII Conference of the Danubian Countries on Hydrological Forecasting and Hydrological Bases of Water Management – Bulgaria, September 2017
- International Symposium “Ecohydrology for the Circular Economy and Nature-Based Solutions towards Mitigation/Adaptation to Climate Change” – Lodz, Poland, 26 – 28 September 2017
- EGU 2017 – Vienna, Austria, 24 – 27 April 2017
- Wastewater – The Untapped Resource – Bonn, Germany, 22nd March 2017
- Mediterranean Region
- SDG indicators
- Dagmar Kronsbein
- Historical carbon dioxide emissions caused by land-use changes are possibly larger than assumed (Nat. Geosci.) – 2017
- Networks
- Resilience in the global food system (ERL) – 2017
- Dmytro Lisniak
- International Symposium on Water Diplomacy – Stockholm, Sweden, 16 – 17 November 2016
- Impacts of Climate Change on Agriculture and Forestry in the PACA Region – 2016
- International initiative on Water Quality (IIWQ)
- International German Summer School on Hydrology: “Groundwater and Agriculture” – Bochum, Germany, 14 – 28 September 2016
- 78th meeting of the International Commission for the Hydrology of the Rhine basin – Salzburg, Austria, 14 – 15 September 2016
- GEMStat
- Philipp Saile
- Kontakt (en)
- Water diplomacy
- SPONGE
- Flow Regimes
- Seamless Prediction
- Blended Learning in Hydrology – Aachen, Germany, 31 August – 3 September 2015
- National Cooperations
- International Cooperations
- Training Guidelines on Integrated Flood and Drought Management
- IGSH – International German Summer School on Groundwater and Urbanisation – Bochum, Germany, 16 – 29 August 2015
- The International Centre for Water Resources and Global Change (ICWRGC)
- Step-by-step monitoring methodology for indicator 6.3.2 on ambient water quality – 2016
- Future projects
- Climate research in Vietnam
- Second International Meeting of the World Large River Initiative (WLRI), Vienna, Austria, 27 – 28 June 2016
- Region I UNESCO IHP meeting – Koblenz, Germany, 24 – 25 May 2016
- Inception Workshop on SDG 6 – Amman, Jordan, 22 – 23 May 2016
- UNESCO Science Centre Meeting – Peking, China, 16 – 18 May 2016
- A Snapshot of the World’s Water Quality: Towards a Global Assessment – 2016
- Handbook of Drought Indicators and Indices. WMO/GWP Integrated Drought Management Programme (IDMP). 2016. WMO-No. 1173. WMO, Geneva, Switzerland and GWP, Stockholm, Sweden – 2016
- Green and blue water demand from large-scale land acquisitions in Africa (PNAS) – 2016
- Reserves and trade jointly determine exposure to food supply shocks (ERL) – 2016
- Proceedings of IAHS: International Conference Water Resources Assessment and Seasonal Prediction, Koblenz, Germany, 13–16 October 2015, Publication 17 October 2016
- UNESCO-IHP Regional Consultation Meeting on “Water Quality in Europe: Challenges and Best Practices” – Koblenz, Germany, 1 – 4 December 2015
- Workshop “Exploring new data for SMART monitoring of water SDG targets – Maastricht, Netherlands, 30 November – 1 December 2015
- International Conference on Water Resources Assessment and Seasonal Prediction – Koblenz, Germany, 15 – 16 October 2015
- International Symposium ”Preventive Water Diplomacy – Developments and new Concepts“ – Berlin, Germany, 8 June 2015
- Workshop on Modelling Mixed-Sediment River Morphodynamics – Delft, Netherlands, 27 – 29 May 2015
- Training Guidelines on Integrated Flood and Drought Management – 2015
- Workshop Report – Exploring new data for monitoring of water SDGs – 2015
- Estimation of the predictive uncertainty of hydrological model simulations and forecasts – 2015
- Quantification and reduction of uncertainties in short, medium and long-term forecasts of the Federal Institute of Hydrology – Synthesis of methods developed and results obtained in the R&D project “Seamless Prediction I” (2012–2014) – 2015
- Probabilistic flow and water-level forecasts – communication strategies and potential uses for inland navigation (HyWa) – 2014
- Ascertainment of probabilistic runoff forecasts considering censored data (HyWa) – 2014
- Updating initial states of the HBV hydrological model by means of an Ensemble Kalman Filter to improve discharge forecasting – 2014
- Free Flow: Reaching Water Security through Cooperation – 2013
- IHP/HWRP-publications – Status and Perspectives of Hydrology in Small Basins – 2010
- IHP/HWRP-publications – Managing Extreme Flood Events – 2009
- IHP/HWRP-publications – Assessment of Snow, Glacier and Water Resources in Asia – 2009
- IHP/HWRP-publications – GLOWA – Globaler Wandel des Wasserkreislaufes – 2008
- IHP/HWRP-publications – Forest hydrology – results of research in Germany and Russia – 2007
- IHP/HWRP-publications – Irrigation control: towards a new solution of an old problem – 2007
- IHP/HWRP-publications – Runoff from Nepalese Headwater Catchments – Measurements and Modelling – 2006
- IHP/HWRP-publications – Value of Water – Different Approaches in Transboundary Water Management – 2005
- IHP/HWRP-publications – Studies in Mountain Hydrology – 2004
- IHP/HWRP-publications – Problematik der Wasserbewirtschaftung der Insel Föhr – 2004 (German)
