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Since 2002, the pedagogic teams of six European universities are continuously exploring new trends and approaches in education for water engineers. Over the last decade, the water sector is facing the digital revolution challenges. The water uses have reached a high level of complexity that request scientific, technical and social skills in order to answer the demands of users and to preserve a precious resource that request constant cares. Developing new pedagogic practices is strongly needed for integrating the new methods and tools of hydroinformatics and to promote emerging concept like resilience for future professionals who will be in charge of this essential sector. The European programs like Erasmus and Erasmus+ have been, over the years, the main supporting instrument for developing these innovations that request nothing less than the European perspective and spirit. The current book presents the recent results achieved within the Erasmus+ Strategic partnership dedicated to develop pedagogic practices and resources for promoting the resilience concept in flood protection. HydroEurope is targeting MSc students specialised in flood management who will be deeply involved in natural hazards mitigation strategies development in Europe and worldwide. The innovative pedagogic approach and the concept of resilience introduced contribute to develop specific skills and competences which are highly needed for these young professionals. At the same time, the use of ICT in the pedagogic approach contributes to renovate the classical higher education practice in civil engineering. This book introduces HydroEurope by providing the rationale for implementing HydroEurope and the need to conduct HydroEurope transnationally. It justifies the choosing of the HydroEurope partners and provides attestation of the experiences and competences each of the partners will bring to HydroEurope. The partners of HydroEurope are University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis, France (UNS), Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus Senftenberg, Germany (BTU), Technical University of Catalonia, Spain (UPC), Newcastle University, United Kingdom (NU), Warsaw University of Technology, Poland (WUT) and Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium (VUB). The objective of HydroEurope is using the collaborative engineering approach to provide the participants of HydroEurope skills and knowledge on flood management in terms of hydrological and hydraulic modelling and flood resilience measures. The methodology on how to achieve this objective as well as the anticipated outcomes and impacts are carefully explained. In addition, this book presents the strategies for resilience approach implementation within the city where it is envisioned that this book will help to spread awareness on flood risk and resilience not just only in the public but also in the education and water domain. The high level of commitments from all partners has ensured the success of the HydroEurope project. All participants have underlined the interest of the approach and recognised the added value for their future professional career.
(PDF) HydroEurope, Flood Risks Management and Resilience in Europe,. Available from: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/328784960_HydroEurope_Flood_Risks_Management_and_Resilience_in_Europe [accessed Nov 20 2018].