Water Doctoral Network
of Engineering and Management
Project decription
The 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.
This network shall not be limited to tuition and conferral of doctorates in water sciences, engineering and economics,
but serve as nursery for new, innovative research potentials and projects within the inter-national academic co-operation.
Trans-disciplinary subjects between management and engineering will convey interdisciplinary expertise in order to cover
the whole sector of water and sanitation.
The strengthened fundament for mutual academic and business co-operation shall encourage applied technological and managerial
innovations with the potential to promote German export industries as well as the development of local businesses in Vietnam.
The Project may 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.
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Prof. Rudolph (IEEM) und Prof. Cam (HUS)
signing the co-operation agreement in March 2011
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Prof. Nam (NEU), Prof. Rudolph (IEEM) and Prof. Cuong
(NEU) after signing the co-operation agreement in March 2011
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The first four network partners (see
Project partners) to undersign the co-operation agreement
were two from Vietnam (
HUS and
NEU)
and two from Germany (
TUD and
IEEM). TUD and HUS
cover the fields of sciences and engineering while IEEM and NEU are
responsible for economics and finance. This is the minimum cluster to fulfill the objectives of the Water Doctoral
Network of Engineering and Management (WDN).
The network partners will now seek for acknowledgement of the agreement with the responsible ministries and for
clarification of internal procedures and capacities to detail curricula and to approve professors, tutors as well as
doctoral students within all universities participating the WDN.
There are several more universities invited and interested in joining the agreement, like the partners of the
AKIZ research project; first of all, the
HUCE
from Vietnam, being involved in the elaboration of the WDN from the very beginning.
So, the intention of WDN is to expand the agreement and partners network. In case of interest,
please
contact us.