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Since 2005, a new generation of water managers is being educated at the University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE) within the M.Sc. program „Transnational ecosystem-based Water Management“ (TWM). The major objective of TWM is to teach sustainable and integrated river basin and water management, covering the engineering, ecological and economic aspects within an interdisciplinary and practice-oriented program. Thereby, one focus of the English curriculum is on trans-national water management. This is not only reflected by the program’s name, but also by the structure. It involves two partner universities: UDE in Essen, Germany and the Radboud Universiteit (RU) in Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
Prof. Dr. Daniel Hering from the Faculty of Biology at UDE emphasized this particular strength, when he welcomed the new cohort of TWM students together with the study coordinator Conny Mooren from Radboud Universiteit on the ‚Welcome Day’. The students were invited to learn more about the upcoming summer term, which is going to start on 10 April. They also took this opportunity to get in touch with TWM lecturers at UDE.
For several years, a continuous increase of TWM students is observable, which reflects the rising demand for this integrated M.Sc. Program. Yet, it is not only the attractiveness of TWM, but also the job opportunities that render TWM a successful story: more than half of the students enter a water management-related job directly after graduation.
The Department of Applied Zoology/Hydrobiology is involved in the research project "Safe Ruhr" starting in 2012. This joint project is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) as part of the "Risk Management of Pollutants and Pathogens in the Water Cycle" initiative (RISKWA) and aims at developing a comprehensive risk-management concept for drinking water supply and a possible use of the Ruhr as bathing water.
Researchers of the Department of Applied Zoology/Hydrobiology will analyse the composition of trematode communities in snails in the Ruhr, providing a basis for the risk-assessment of water usage with regard to potential trematode infections in humans, causing cercarial dermatitis or swimmer's itch (see http://www.sichere-ruhr.de).
This book is the result of the EU founded project EuroLimpacs, in which the workgroup of Prof D. Hering was involved, it examines the impact of climate change on freshwater ecosystems, past, present and future. It especially considers the interactions between climate change and other drivers of change including hydromorphological modification, nutrient loading, acid deposition and contamination by toxic substances.
more about „Climate Change Impacts on Freshwater...”