sponsorship Water Doctoral Network

Doctorate Graduation School "Water Engineering and Management"

Project description:

Due to the advancing industrialization, there is a rapidly increasing demand on well-qualified labour force in Vietnam. This applies particularly for the water and envi- ronmental sector and especially for personal trained on the highest academic level, the doctoral studies. There is already some exchange of doctoral students and teaching staff between Germany and Vietnam but individually organized with high personal effort and still depending on individual decisions. Therefore, this project, funded by the International Bureau of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (IB BMBF), intends to establish a legalized German-Vietnamese university network for doctoral graduation in water engineering and management, the Water Doctoral Network – WDN.

The WDN-Project should well cover related fields, like regenerative energy, public health, utility management for supply and disposal, environmental infrastructure and services, further more space planning and land use. The first four network partners who already signed the co- operation agreement are two from Vietnam (HUS – Hanoi University of Science, a member of the VNU – Vietnam- ese National University, and NEU – National Economics University, Hanoi) and two from Germany (TUD Dresden University of Technology and IEEM – Institute of Environmental Engineering and Management at the University of Witten/Herdecke). TUD and HUS cover the fields of sciences and engineering while IEEM and NEU are responsible for economics and finance.