Erasmus Mundus Program in Flood Risk Management

Erasmus Mundus Program in Flood Risk Management is a joint M. Sc program starts with the first semester at TUD (Dresden). The students are required to have high potentiality and analytical skill. The students can select their modules from: Introduction to flood risk management (I and II, compulsory); meteorology and hydrology; climate change; GIS and remote sensing; geodesy; ecology; statistics; hydromechanics, and hydraulic engineering. A field-trip to flood-prone areas is organized.

Course Structure:

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Overview of Courses

Courses offered in First semester at Technical University of Dresden, Germany.

·         Flood Risk Management

·         Hydraulic Engineering

·         Hydromechanics

·         Ecology

·         Statistics

·         Meteorology and Hydrology

·         Climate Change

·         GIS

·         Geodesy

·         Fieldtrip

·         Workshop

·         Fieldtrip

Courses offered in Second semester at UNESCO-IHE, Delft, and The Netherlands:

·         Computational Intelligence and Control Systems

·         River Basin Modelling

·         Introduction to river flood modelling, or, Urban flood modelling

·         International fieldtrip

·         Flood risk management

·         Decision support system

Courses offered in Third semester, first 20 ECTS credits at UPC, Barcelona, Spain:

·         Debris flow and flash flood

·         Coastal flooding

·         Drough management

·         Introduction to risk, vulnerability, hazard and resilience concepts assessment

·         Global warming

·         The radar, models, system and alerts with flood Forecasting application to the Besos Basin and fieldtrips

Courses offered in Third semester, 10 ECTS credits at University of Ljubljana, Slovenia:

·         Spatial planning

·         socio-economic and institutional framework for flood risk management

Partner Institutes

Technical University of Dresden (Germany)

Technical University of Catalonia (Spain)

UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education (the Netherlands)

University of Ljubljana (Slovenia)

Associated members

Deltares (the Netherlands)

HR Wallingford Ltd (UK)

DHI (Denmark)

Rijkswaterstaat Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water (the Netherlands)

Institute for Water of the Republic of Slovenia (Slovenia)

International Center for Water Hazard and Risk Management (Japan)

Institute of Water and Flood Management (Bangladesh)

Institute of Water Modelling (Bangladesh)

Center for Environment and Geographical Information Services (Bangladesh)

Required documents:

Photocopy (ies) of academic diploma(s)

Certified academic transcript

Curriculum Vitae

Letter of Motivation

Two Letters of Recommendation (not older than six months either by two university teachers or by one university teacher and by one employer, or by internationally recognized scientist(s))

Result of an IELTS or TOEFL test

Admission Requirements

A. The applicant should have a first degree of higher education equivalent to a B.Sc. degree with a good final mark in civil or environmental engineering, geosciences, environmental sciences, geography, natural resources management, limnology, oceanography, geology or equivalent.

B. Must be proficient in English Language:

IELTS: 6.0 and above

TOEFL paper based: 550 and above

TOEFL computer based test: 213 and above

TOEFL internet based: 79 and above

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