Deadline:
February 03, 2025
Location(s)
Germany Netherlands Slovenia Spain
Dresden, Delft, Ljubljana, Barcelona
Overview
Integrated flood risk management aims to reduce the human and socio-economic losses caused by flooding while taking into account the social, economic and ecological benefits from floods and the use of flood plains or coastal zones. The need for the adoption of a holistic integrated approach to managing flood risks has been reflected in the Flood Directive of the European Parliament. The course gives flood risk management the necessary trans-disciplinary approach and combines four outstanding European institutions to cope with an increasing challenge, both for engineers as for scientists.
Details
Make a difference
Flooding is a problem worldwide, and the challenge will become even larger in the future. There is a lack of professionals with the interdisciplinary skillset needed to tackle the environmental, social and economic aspects of the problem
Integrated, multidisciplinary programme
Existing masters programmes on floods offered in the European Union cover many technical aspects but lack integration. This programme follows the holistic approach and is explicitly designed to cover a wide range of topics - from drivers and natural processes to models, decisions and socio-economic consequences and institutional environment and is therefore an important advance in water education for Europe.
International experience
Learn from leading experts at four European universities:
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IHE Delft Institute for Water Education (the Netherlands)
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Technical University of Dresden (Germany)
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Technical University of Catalonia (Spain)
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University of Ljubljana (Slovenia)
Learning objectives
The learning objectives (acquisition of knowledge) for the students include:
- a broad and cross-boundary scientific knowledge on flood risk management;
- a comprehensive knowledge base and understanding of the current theory and practice relating to flooding and flood management;
- the fundamental knowledge leading to the understanding of socio-economic issue related to flooding;
- a broad scientific knowledge about conservation, restoration and management measures to overcome challenges imposed on water by humans and by climate change, and;
- an extended knowledge on a basin-wide approach to flood risk management.
The acquired competencies (application of knowledge) include the ability to:
- analyse the reciprocal relationships between the physical system, the institutional framework and the socio-economic environment, identifying future social and climatic pressures and needs and the consequent trends in system management;
- apply specific practical skills, such as identifying the major physical processes in a given river basin or coastal zone and their interaction with the associated assets and receptors;
- identify the links between all issues related to flooding in order to apply an integrated approach using the best tools to support decision making for the sustainable management of floods;
- review scientific literature and carry out independent research (such as writing a state of the art paper based on research and practice literature);
- apply sophisticated hydroinformatics and modelling tools and best practices to address the problems of flood risk management;
- occupy an independent and responsible position as a flood risk professional;
- communicate his/her knowledge and research results to the scientific and non-scientific communities (such as presenting papers/posters to scientific congresses, general lectures to policy makers and interested non-specialists);
- acquire independently further knowledge and techniques, and
- operate in a team.
Opportunity is About
Eligibility
Candidates should be from:
Description of Ideal Candidate
The Flood Risk Management programme has the following admission requirements:
A. Proof that the applicant has successfully accomplished a first degree of higher education equivalent to a B.Sc. degree (equivalent to 180 credit points according to the European Credit Transfer System (ECTS)) with a good final mark as shown by a Grade Point Average (GPA) of at least B/B+ (US System) or a classification of at least 2nd upper (UK system), in one of the following subjects: civil or environmental engineering, but otherwise in geosciences, environmental sciences, limnology, oceanography, geography, geology or natural resources).
Note A.1 Applications may already be submitted before the first degree of higher education (usually B.Sc.) has been successfully finished, if at least 120 ECTS of the programme have been successfully completed. If the applicant meets all of the other admission requirements, admission can be granted on the condition that the first degree of higher education must be successfully finished by 15 August preceding to the start year of the programme.
B. Evidence of qualification in one of the internationally-recognised English language tests.
Dates
Deadline: February 03, 2025
Cost/funding for participants
About 20 Erasmus Mundus Joint Master’s Degree scholarships per year are available on a competitive basis. The scholarships will be available for 4 intakes over a period of four years (in total about 80 scholarships). There are two types of scholarships, depending on whether your country of residence is a partner or programme country.
What do EMJMD Scholarships include:
Summarized:
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a contribution to the students' participation costs (including the tuition fees, library and laboratory costs, full insurance coverage and any other mandatory costs related to the students' participation in the Master);
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a contribution to student travel and installation costs;
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a monthly subsistence allowance for the entire duration of the EMJMD study programme.
The contribution to student travel and installation costs (see below) and the monthly subsistence allowance (see below) depend on the place of residence of a scholarship holder. In order to decide if you are eligible for a partner or programme country scholarship, you need to submit a residence certificate. For more information on the requirements, we refer to the number "2 Application" on this website.
In detail:
Contribution to the participation costs
Contribution to the participation costs up to 9 000 EUR per year per scholarship holder from a Partner Country and up to 4 500 EUR per year per scholarship holder from a Programme Country
Contribution to the travel and installation costs
- 1000 EUR per year per scholarship holder resident of a programme country for travel costs
- 2000 EUR per year for travel costs + 1000 EUR for installation costs for scholarship holder resident of a partner country whose location is situated at less than 4.000 km from IHE Delft, The Netherlands
- 3000 EUR per year for travel costs + 1000 EUR for installation costs for scholarship holder resident of a partner country whose location is situated at 4.000 km or more from IHE Delft, The Netherlands
Contribution to subsistence costs
Contribution to subsistence costs 1 000 EUR per month for the entire duration of the EMJMD study programme (up to 24 months maximum).
NOTE: Contribution to subsistence costs are:
- neither given to scholarship holders for the EMJMD periods (study/research/placement/thesis preparation) spent in their country of residence;
- nor to scholarship holders from a Partner Country for the EMJMD periods exceeding three months (indicatively the equivalent of 15 ECTS credits) spent in any Partner Country.
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