The Course

The HydroEurope course in winter semester 2024/25 is a joint teaching activity within the Erasmus cooperative partnership project HydroEurope to evaluate new teaching units on Accidental Water Pollution based on the former teaching units Uncertainties in Advanced Hydrological and Hydraulic Modelling and Climate Change Impacts on Flash Floods and for six different case studies in Europe. HydroEurope is based on team work to deal with the complex flash flood processes and problems. Six teams with ~10 students are composite in this project course. Each team is dealing with one of the six case studie or with other words each of the six case studies will be s, each team is concentraed, in total 12 teams are formed in this project course. 

Course Introduction Presentation: 08 November 15:00 - 16:00 CET

Presentation - Video session (code: 43V.xaLt )

followed by individual team/case study introduction 16:00 - 18:00 CET

The Topic

According to EU action to climate change adaptation, climate change is expected to lead an increase of precipitation in many areas. Increased rainfall over extended periods will mainly lead to fluvial (river) flooding, while short, intense cloudbursts can cause pluvial floods, where extreme rainfall causes flooding without any body of water overflowing. Climate change is likely to increase the frequency of flooding across Europe in the coming years with flash floods expected to become more frequent across Europe. Flash floods are quick-rising floods are most often caused by heavy rains over a short period (usually six hours or less). It has been observed in the HEIs of the consortium that the current curricula tend to focus on traditional flooding issues and only consider climate change impacts as a afterthought. Thus this work package aims to bring the climate change to the foreground, where the focus will be the climate change impacts on extreme events and its implications on the evolution of floods' behaviors. Therefore it is of importance that the future water engineers are well equipped with the knowledge and experiences in managing flash floods. The target of the HydroEuro project is the production of related innovative teaching units for six case studies in Europe to improve the academic curriculum in hydroinformaics and water management.