Berlin
- Germany
International DAAD-Alumni
Summer School in Ilmenau,
Germany:
„System Solutions to
Integrated Water
Resource Management“Technische
Universität Ilmenau)
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One of the three international summer schools,
supported by the DAAD (German Academic Exchange
Service), in connection with the Exhibition
“Wasser Berlin 2009”, will be organized by our
Ilmenau University of Technology. The Summer
school “System Solutions to Integrated Water
Resource Management” is scheduled from 23rd to
28th of March, 2009 in Ilmenau.
For more information about the university and
the city Ilmenau please look at
http://www.tu-ilmenau.de/uni/Kontakt.54.0.html
.
For your arrival in Ilmenau the 22nd of March is
planned. The day of departure from Ilmenau to
Berlin is Sunday 29th of March; the day of
departure from Berlin is 4th of April.
To join in this summer school, you have the
oportunity to gain advanced knowledge about the
management of integrated water resources with
systematic methods by one-week lectures,
tutorials and discussions in Ilmenau, followed
by a second week to visit the wellknown fair on
Water and Wastewater in Berlin, which is guided
by DAAD.
The language is normally German, but in
respective to the participants, English can be
preferred, too.
Part 1: Summer school at Ilmenau University of
Technology (23rd March to 28th March2009)
Participants, invited guests and our University
staff together will discuss the most recent
development of system solutions for the management
of water and waste water systems.
The following topics will be covered:
• Drinking water supply and sustainability - a
trans-boundary challenge
o Water and climate change
o Situation analysis in participants countries
o Decision support systems as a tool, also for
political decisions
• Decision support in water systems
o Modelling, simulation and optimization as tools
for decision support
o Software tools for the management of drinking
water networks
o Water quality and water price in trans-boundary
dimension
o Simulation of surface and groundwater reservoirs
• Application in Water systems
o Management of municipal and regional water
networks
o Aquifer management for water supply
o Quality driven drinking water supply
Excursions to practical water management systems (a
local reservoir and a waste water treatment plant)
will be arranged. Participants will be asked to
contribute their own experiences by presenting a
topic or heading a round table discussion,
respectively.
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