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)