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Conferene "Agua2018" in Colombia

In one of the invited keynote lectures at the conferene "Agua2018", which, in this year, was focussing on the topic "Water, environmental justice and Peace", Dr Schütze has presented ifak's research work in the topic area of "Integrated Planning Tools". In his presentation, Dr Schütze illustrated how holistic modelling of water systems can support sustainable water maangement. Based on the current research projects of ifak in this topic area, this has been illustrated on examples from various countries (e.g. Colombia, Israel, Rwanda, Germany). The lecture also highlighted the close links of ifak with Colombia, which also manifests itself by several research stays of students and researchers from Colombia at ifak.

The conference "Agua2018" was organised by Universidad del Valle, one of  ifak's partner universities in Colombia; the conference was attende by more than 200 participants from many countries of the Americas and Europe.