Connected to the world

In line with the Mission Statement and the Internationalisation Strategy of our university - "Knowledge builds bridges - education unites people" - we strive to achieve our research goals through a multicultural, international perspective. We are totally convinced that the best way to address global water challenges is with a group that is international in character so our actual and past group members count for 18 persons from 12 different nations.

Since the group's creation in 2014, we continuously engaged in active international networking and initiated new contacts to over 60 institutions worldwide, among them top universities, research institutions, governmental and non-governmental organisations, private companies and professional international associations (such as IAH, IGRAC, GIZ, BGR, IWMI, UNESCO-IHE, CSIRO etc). Through intensive collaboration with our partners, we strive to consolidate the impact of our research on the international stage and therewith to attract even more international doctoral students to our group.

In our research we also involve students and contribute with lectures to various study courses, particularly to the international Master Programmes "Hydroscience and Engineering" and "Groundwater and Global Change - Impacts and Adaptation". Further committement to improve the academic education of international students is expressed through a series of international summer schools organised by our group since 2016.