49th Dresden Hydraulic Engineering Colloquium 2026

Please note that this page only summarizes the most important key points of the 49th Dresden Hydraulic Engineering Colloquium. Detailed information is available on the event website wasserbaukolloquium.de.

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The 49th Dresden Hydraulic Engineering Colloquium on "Hydraulic engineering between technology and nature: Multifunctional solutions for the future" will take place on March 12th and 13th, 2026 at the Maritim International Congress Center.

Dates

October 31, 2025 Deadline for submission of abstracts

November 28, 2025 Notification of acceptance of submitted contributions

December 12, 2025 Publication of the conference program

January 4, 2026 End of early bird registration

Program

Today more than ever, hydraulic engineering is caught between technical requirements, ecological goals, and social expectations: climate change and extreme weather events demand resilient infrastructure, while at the same time there is a greater focus on integrating ecosystem services into hydraulic engineering measures.
Society and politics are looking for solutions that equally guarantee protection, security of supply, and sustainability — seeing technology and nature not as opposites, but as complementary partners. Innovations in the digital realm are also opening up new possibilities: AI-supported modeling, digital twins, and modern sensor technology are creating the basis for predictive planning, operation, and monitoring processes.
Topics such as changing sediment dynamics, renaturation of water bodies, design of post-mining landscapes, hydraulic engineering in multifunctional landscapes, competing urban, agricultural, and forestry land uses, and the connection between hydraulic engineering and the energy industry are also becoming increasingly important.

With this background, we would like to invite you to submit conference contributions on the following topics, among others, for the 49th Dresden Hydraulic Engineering Colloquium entitled "Hydraulic engineering between technology and nature:
Multifunctional solutions for the future":

Nature-based solutions for multifunctional (cultural) landscapes (“nature-based solutions,” ecosystem integration)
Resilient and sustainable infrastructures for a changing water world (security of supply, sponge cities, climate-adapted structures, NW management)
From AI-supported modeling to smart rivers (models, technologies, digital twins, remote sensing, sensor technology)
Renaturation, sediment management, biodiversity
Post-mining landscapes (water – energy – landscape)
Competing water and land uses

The accompanying trade exhibition provides information about products, processes, and services from manufacturers, engineering firms, teaching and research institutions, and associations. It forms the interface between science and practice and serves as a central platform for exchange and networking for all participants of the 49th Dresden Hydraulic Engineering Colloquium.

The accompanying trade exhibition will provide information on products, processes and services from manufacturers, engineering offices, educational and research institutions and associations. It forms the interface between science and practice and serves as a central platform for all participants of the 49th Dresden Hydraulic Engineering Colloquium to exchange ideas and make contacts.

We look forward to your contributions and your participation!

Registration form

Please register online at https://wasserbaukolloquium.de/anmeldung. The conference fee includes the conference documents, participation in the lectures and the trade exhibition as well as catering during breaks.

On the evening of March 12th, a scientific exchange of experiences will take place, for which separate registration and billing is required. We will inform you of further details soon.

A further optional program item of the 49th Dresden Hydraulic Engineering Colloquium is a guided tour through Dresden's old town (12 March 2026 in the evening).

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Trade exhibition

In addition to booking an exhibition stand , it is also possible to have advertisements inserted in the conference documents or to support the event through various types of sponsorship . Further information on the booking options will be available in due course in the event's exhibitor and sponsor handbook.