Projects

Current Projects

• PolyUrbanWaters – Polycentric Approaches to the Management of Urban Water Resources in Southeast Asia
• DatKlim – Datenkompetenz für die deutsche Anpassungsstrategie an den Klimawandel
• The Water, Energy and Food Security Nexus
• ExiST: Sandwich PhD Programme with Ethiopia – Excellence in Science and technology (ExiST)
• RETO-DOSSO: Researchers back to the secondary School – Renewable energy powered water-food-Economy nexus for the sustainable livelihood at Dosso Region in Niger – ITT Sub-project: Renewable energy for energy economy-hub (RETO-DOSSO)
• ERASOL-MAB: Energy recovery and cleaner groundwater: techno-economic and environmental assessment of municipal solid waste management in the city of Bamako, Mali: TH Köln sub-project: Waste to energy
• C-COOK-Mali: Clean alternative solutions to the inefficient cooking-fuel used in Malian kitchens
• e-REET: Energizing higher education – renewable energy for economic transition in Nepal (e-REET)
• Funding agency: German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)

Some Examples of Previous Projects

• Integrated Eco Technologies and Services for a Sustainable Rural Rio de Janeiro (INTECRAL)
• Web based River Basin Information system to support drought management in Northern-Central Chile
• Water Use Efficiency in Northern Central Chile (WEIN)
• Optimizing Water Allocation in Rural Areas of Lake Nasser – Upper Egypt (OWARA)
• Strengthening Transformation: Participatory Planning and Natural Resources Management – Curriculum Development (PartNaR)
• Development of innovative solutions for water- and energy-efficient irrigation technologies in micro precision farming for SME (small scale farms), specifically in arid regions (PREFARM)
• Climate Change, Landscape dynamics, Land use and Natural Resources in the Atlantic Forest of Rio de Janeiro (DINARIO)
• Multilateral university cooperation in the management of human impacted droughts in tropical catchments – TROPISECA
• Land Use and Climate Change Interactions in Central Vietnam (LUCCi)
• CapWater – Developing capacities in the field of monitoring and the assessment of water resources
• MOOC: Powering Agriculture – Sustainable Energy for Food (a massive open online course)
• DFG Jordan: Researcher stay in the field of decentralized energy systems
• PAUWES: University cooperation with Pan African University Institute for Water and Energy Sciences including Climate Change (Phase I)
• JOGIRES: Jordanian German University Cooperation to Improve Higher Education in Renewable Energy Studies
• BEFSec: Sustainable Production of Bioenergy and Soil Conditioners from Bio-residues in Pakistan for Energy and Food Supply Security
• SEMALI: Risk Assessment and Reduction Strategies for Sustainable Urban Resource Supply in Sub-Saharan Africa – Focus on Sustainable Energy Supply in Mali
• RARSUS: Risk Assessment and Reduction Strategies for Sustainable Urban Resource Supply in Sub-Saharan Africa
• Intersolar: Alumni Seminar during the Solar Trade Fair Intersolar Europe
• WESA: Water and Energy Security for Africa
• :metabolon IIb: Environmental life cycle assessment of bio-waste to energy routes
• DFG-TWAS: Researcher stay in the field of bioenergy from South Africa

Research Partners in ITT research projects

Germany

• Department of Geoinformatics, Hydrology and Modelling, Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena
• Department of  Earth Observation, Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena
• Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and Institute for Meteorology and Climate Research Atmospheric Environmental Research (IMK-IFU)
• Institute of Environmental Engineering and Ecology, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Ruhr University Bochum
• IHP/HWRP Secretariat, Federal Institute of Hydrology, Koblenz
• University Leipzig – Institute for Geography
• University Bonn

Vietnam

• Vietnam Academy of Water Resources (VAWR) – Center for Training and International Cooperation
• Hue University of Agriculture and Forestry (HUAF)
• Hue College of Economics (HCE)
• Institute of Meteorology, Hydrology and Environment (IMHEN)

Brazil

• Brazilian Enterprise of Agricultural Research (EMBRAPA Solos)
• National Centre for Research of Agrobiology (EMBRAPA Agrobiologia)

Chile

• Universidad Católica de Valparaíso (UCV)
• Universidad de La Serena (ULS)
• Centro de Estudios Avanzados en Zonas Áridas (CEAZA)

Spain

• University of Cordoba (UCO)
• Centro Andaluz de Medio Ambiente (CEAMA)
• Universidad de Granada (UGR)

Egypt

• Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation (MALR)
• Ain Shams University (ASU)
• Soils, Water and Environment Research Institute (SWERI)

International Institutions

• IRRI – International Rice Research Institute
• IUCN – International Union for the Conservation of Nature
• UNDP Disaster Risk Management Capacity Building Program
• UNESCO IHP
• World Food Program (WFP)