GLOBAL CAMPUS The future we want to contribute to

Winds of change swept through the Institute over the past few years. We are building consensus as to what directions we should take given the enormous water-related challenges ahead, together with involved stakeholders.

This booklet aims to provide a compact overview of the Institute’s ambitions over the coming years. The information in this booklet is extracted from two related documents: the ‘UNESCO-IHE strategic directions in 2020’ and the ‘UNESCO-IHE business plan 2013 - 2018’. They serve as a starting point to construct the UNESCO-IHE Global Campus.

The Global Campus comprises two major elements. Firstly, the geographical coverage of the Institute is to be expanded with interconnected elements in Asia, Latin America and Africa. Not only do most water challenges exist in these regions, but the Global Campus enables UNESCO-IHE to better understand local needs and react more swiftly to

requests coming from local partners and stakeholders. Secondly, expanding the programmes with issues of water governance and extending our disciplinary fields including social sciences, will enable the Institute to cover all principles relating to current and future water challenges.

The Rio+20 conference on sustainable development produced an outcome document entitled ‘The Future We Want’. The document recognizes that water is at the core of sustainable development as it is closely linked to a number of key global challenges. It acknowledges the importance of integrating water in sustainable development and underlines the critical importance of safe drinking water, sanitation and sustainable water use.

This is the future we want to contribute to. We are looking forward to working with you to achieve these strategic objectives.

Professor András Szöllösi-Nagy, PhD, DScRector

PREFACE

UNESCO-IHE is an internationally recognized key player in post-graduate education and capacity development with regard to water research. Water, or more importantly the lack thereof, is expected to grow in importance over the coming decades. UNESCO-IHE’s strategic plan recognizes that meeting global challenges such as poverty, climate change and public health requires a strong foundation of knowledge to improve water management practices.

UNESCO-IHE operates in a variety of policy contexts. As part of the UNESCO and UN family, there is the international policy context, the Millennium Development Goals and the RIO+20 outcomes. Moreover, UNESCO-IHE is based in the Netherlands and therefore also operates and works in the context of European and Dutch policy. All these contexts present major water challenges and envisioned responses that are relevant for the work that UNESCO-IHE does.

THE GlObAl UNESCO-IHE CAMPUS

The Global Campus is an international UNESCO-IHE networking

organization with education and research sites as well as nodes of excellence. The Global Campus will close the gap in the

broad field of specialist capacity needed in the field of water worldwide by providing

more education at a regional level to young talented people via partners and

in the future also in collaboration with regional UNESCO-IHE

institutes.

POTENTIAl GlObAl CAMPUS

MEMbERS

• Regional UNESCO-IHE institutes

• Partner universities and research institutes

• Knowledge networks and Public Private Partnerships

• Category II centers and UNESCO chairs

INTRODUCTION

Water will be one of the most important issues of the 21st century. How should water be managed 40 years from now in a world inhabited by more than 9 billion people? This and many other questions demand direct action. Water is critical to the world’s prosperity and environmental sustainability. Safe drinking water and appropriate sanitation are vital factors in human health and quality of life. More than half the population already lives in cities, and this number will only increase.

Changing consumption patterns, pollution of aquatic and land ecosystems, land degration, food security and increased competition among water users for limited water resources present global challenges that must be addressed. building on a knowledge network that catalyzes solutions for these immense problems will be an essential task for the water sector. UNESCO-IHE will take the lead in the creation of this network.

GlObAl WATER CHAllENGES

UNESCO-IHEUNESCO-IHE is the largest international post-graduate water education facility in the world and is based in Delft, the Netherlands. The Institute confers fully accredited MSc degrees, and PhD degrees in collaboration with partners in the Netherlands. Since 1957 the Institute has provided postgraduate education to more than 14,500 water professionals from over 160 countries.

VISIONUNESCO-IHE envisions a world in which people manage their water and environmental resources in a sustainable manner, and in which all sectors of society, particularly the poor, can enjoy the benefits of basic services.

MISSIONThe mission of UNESCO-IHE is to contribute to the education and training of professionals, the knowledge base through research and to build the capacity of sector organizations, knowledge centers and other institutions active in the fields of water, the environment and infrastructure, in developing countries and countries in transition.

ACTIVITIESUNESCO-IHE carries out three types of activities that complement and reinforce each other in broad field of water engineering, water management, environment, sanitation, and governance. • Education• Research• Capacity Development

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UNESCO-IHE conducts scientific research in collaboration with various partner universities and research institutes in Europe, Middle East, Asia, Africa and latin America. This network gives us and our partners the opportunity to collect sets of data on specific problems, test

solutions, and demonstrate the potential output of our joint academic research via e.g. innovation sites and demonstration areas. Actively promoting knowledge networks and knowledge sharing is an overarching principle in all activities UNESCO-IHE undertakes.

UNESCO-IHE NEtwORK

AlUMNISince 1957 UNESCO-IHE has provided post-graduate education to more than 14,500 water professionals from over 160 countries. We encourage these alumni to actively engage in knowledge and information exchange. After graduation alumni reach senior positions in their home countries and become nationally and internationally recognized experts in their fields of expertise. They are our key links in the global water network.

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“My main aim to join UNESCO-IHE was to

combine my previous study and experience in the power

sector to energy and environmental specialization. I am very happy that

the study is very helpful in my present professional career with regard to performing environmental impact

assessments of hydropower projects, which is the backbone

of my country’s economy”. Alumnus from Bhutan (2007)

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Development of Global Research and Innovation Agendas for Water & Development (including a detailed implementation plan) based on the specific problems arising in the field of water worldwide and the excellence of all the contributing partners.

The creation of the world’s largest international graduate school on water - the Global UNESCO-IHE Graduate School on Water & Development. The graduate school is at the heart of the Global Campus and will implement a variety of excellent international joint MSc and PhD programmes with partners.

KEy StaRtINg POINtSGlObAl CAMPUS AMbITIONSthe global Campus aims to close the gap in the broad field of specialist capacity needed in the water sector worldwide. It provides more education at a regional level to young, talented people through our partners and in the future also via Regional UNESCO-IHE Institutes in the developing world and countries in transition, in Africa, Asia, latin America and the Middle East.

In order to establish the Global Campus the UNESCO-IHE will focus on 5 E’s: • Extended outreach• Enhanced impact • Excellent research and knowledge base• Efficient education for the next generation of water leaders • Effective capacity development as a stairway to excellence

5 E’s

ExTENDED OUTREACHThe current capacity of the Institute has reached its limits in terms of number of students, PhD fellows and accommodation. Moreover, the current organizational set-up cannot keep pace with the required water expertise demands worldwide. As a result, the global water sector misses out on many urgently needed well-trained water professionals. In order to prioritize and solve water problems, regions should therefore also train a significant number of their future ‘water & development’ talents themselves. UNESCO-IHE’s role is to facilitate that process.

Creation of a system of interconnected campuses set up in various regions in the southern hemisphere.

Training of a new generation of water leaders in an interdisciplinary environment.

Development of demand-driven regional institutes that will go through a feasibility process.

Aiming for a long-term financial commitment from the host government based on a UNESCO-IHE guiding model.

Setting up a quality assurance and monitoring system for all Global Campus partners and institutes by developing measures for setting standards for academic quality. Inherently, an international accreditation board will be composed.

Showing a greener way of doing business to reduce our footprint on limited resources and the environment. ‘Practice what you preach’ mentality in implementing green technologies and business plans, such as a paper-free environment.

Investing in private partnerships by creating a funding model where companies can donate to specific programmes. UNESCO-IHE will provide companies with office space for their scientists, who can participate directly in the research programmes to which they donated.

UNESCO-IHE and the municipality of Delft will build on the Delft and Dutch water knowledge reputation using the UN and other international links. Creation of a UN centre on water.

Activate UNESCO-IHE alumni to participate actively in various public-private partnership missions.

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ENHANCED IMPACT

The global and regional need for a strong knowledge base and well-trained water professionals is still growing exponentially, as evidenced by the number of partners asking UNESCO-IHE for assistance and partnership. In order to offer an appropriate response to the global needs in the water sector, UNESCO-IHE needs to intensify its impact.

Establishing regional institutes all over the world as autonomous entities, joining forces to create a Global Campus with a shared value system.

Identification and development of excellence nodes with partners. These specialized nodes form regional ‘hubs’ and will jointly set up innovation and demonstration sites.

UNESCO-IHE undertakes feasibility studies and submits recommendations in that regard to the appropriate governing bodies of UNESCO and be involved in the final selection process on the

regional UNESCO-IHE institutes that will form, jointly with current and future partners, the Global Campus.

UNESCO-IHE assists in establishing the academic programmes in the various regions.

UNESCO-IHE trains staff of the envisioned regional UNESCO-IHE institutes with regards to the shared value system and quality control.

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ExCEllENt KNOwlEdgE AND RESEARCH bASEPost-graduate education requires relevant research and innovation; it cannot be sustained without developing new knowledge. Research activities are key to maintaining the quality of the Institute and the Global Campus and achieving its objectives for education and capacity development.

Setting up a international research agenda, which will be implemented jointly with partners and at the regional level, and creating other synergies between the regional institutes.

Improve mutual information, communication and cooperation between all relevant stakeholders, and facilitate research and innovation funding schemes within the Global Campus.

Organize a conference where all UNESCO-IHE partners are invited to design Global Research and Innovation Agendas for Water & Development.

Development of Global Research and Innovation Agendas for Water & Development (including a detailed implementation plan) based on the specific problems arising in the field of water worldwide.

With donor support, design and develop network programmes enabling efficient and effective coordination between the various nodes, partners and regional institutes while also supporting inter-regional learning.

Apply for competitive research grants with partners engaged in the Global Research and Innovation Agendas for Water & Development.

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All partners and regional centres can join, connecting their

innovation research and activities (demo sites, test-beds, living labs, etc.), creating mass and body to launch successful innovations

Global Research Agenda and Programme

All partners and regional centres can join, connecting their research when it fits the agenda, creating

mass and body to generate impact and find innovative solutions

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EFFICIENT EDUCATION for the next generation of water leadersUNESCO-IHE trains men and women with great ambitions and ideas who will become the next generation of leading researchers, teachers, professionals and scholars in the water sector. UNESCO-IHE aims to achieve leadership in the world of water through thought and action.

The Global Campus will create the world’s largest international graduate school in the field of water - the ‘UNESCO-IHE Global Graduate School for Water & Development’.

Set-up of a coherent Continuous Professional Development (CPD) programme to close the gap between young ambitious and talented students and access to lifelong training and academic careers.

Follow an open courseware concept and make educational materials such as course notes, presentations, exercises, tools/models and public domain software freely available and easily retrievable. The Global Campus joins the OpenCourseWare Consortium (OCW).

Implementation of relevant and effective joint education programmes with several partner institutes.

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UNESCO-IHE GlObAl GRADUATE SCHOOl FOR WATER & DEVElOPMENT

The Global Graduate School is an international virtual school consisting of

various academic institutions in the world that award advanced academic degrees (Master’s

and Phd degrees) in the field of water, with the general requirement that students must have previously earned a relevant undergraduate

degree. The School will run advanced MSc and PhD courses worldwide via face-to-face and

online education. The School will provide specialized MSc training with partners

and in the future also with regional UNESCO-IHE institutes leading

to joint degrees.

EffECtIvE CaPaCIty DEVElOPMENT as a stairway to excellenceAdequate management of water and environmental resources and its fair and sustainable use can only be achieved in a sound institutional context, with well-functioning organizations and with knowledgeable and committed individuals. Sufficient capacities at these three levels are a prerequisite for a high-performing water sector.

Develop and implement capacity development projects jointly with partner institutions and donors that will operate as ‘Stairway to Excellence’ in establishing excellence nodes within the Global Campus.

Design and develop network programmes with donor support that enable efficient and effective coordination between the various nodes, partners and regional institutes.

Support inter-regional triangular learning.

Apply for competitive capacity development tenders and calls with partners engaged in the Global Campus.

Active participation of UNESCO-IHE alumni in various project identification missions organized by the Dutch government, UN organizations, World Bank, the EC and others relevant to the work of UNESCO-IHE.

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GlObAl CAMPUS TIME lINE

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