Inow Asia: Development of innovative multilevel formation programs for the new water leading professionals in South East Asia Erasmus Project

Project Title

Inow Asia: Development of innovative multilevel formation programs for the new water leading professionals in South East Asia

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Capacity Building in higher education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics:

Project Summary

Today, more than ever the availability and management of water resources are the key issues for the socio-economic development and its impact. We need new solutions to managing water resources to offset the rising challenges to water security from population growth and climate change. Especially vulnerable to this point are countries in Southeast of Asia (SEA), which face severe challenges related to environmental dangers, and their situation will worsen due to current climate change predictions. Thus, these countries need competent and knowledgeable water professionals, who can lead the modernisation of water resources management and guarantee their sustainable socio-economic development, a priority in SEA.Currently, existent Master- and PhD programs in the field of water, environment, and natural resources are unequally implemented and they are based on traditional teaching methodologies that form old-school professionals.To this end, InowAsia will transfer to participating EU HEIs the knowledge and experience available about the implementation of innovative master programmes onto water resources management field. The main idea is to jointly design an innovative training programme based on modular and flexible water resources combining the on-line and problem-based methodology to complement some of the existing postgraduate programs, and also to co-design and implement water-oriented living labs in the campus of each PC HEI. As a result, a new generation of Asian leading professionals in the field of water will be incorporated into the water labour market, with a global view of the sector challenges, a strong background in sustainable water management, but with a specific approach to the local demands.This project aims to create an International multilevel network of postgraduate students, professors and water professionals to reinforce postgraduate curricula in critical economic aspects related to water in SEA, including innovative knowledge.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 946752 Eur

Project Coordinator

UNIVERSITAT DE GIRONA & Country: ES

Project Partners

• INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DEVELOPPEMENT
• NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF BATTAMBANG
• HANOI UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE, VIETNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HANOI
• CAN THO UNIVERSITY
• NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF LAOS
• SOUPHANOUVONG UNIVERSITY
• INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY OF CAMBODIA