As EUCOR Chair for “Water and Sustainability”, my task is to build bridges, between the academic institutions in the Upper Rhine Valley, to foster joint research in European and global projects, to develop interdisciplinary lecturing, in the currently developing EUCOR Master Course “Continental Water Sustainability” (CWS), and to co-develop conservation and sustainable management projects together with regional, private and public stakeholders.
These activities focus on four different thematic fields being (a) increasing efficiency in hydrosystem restoration and conservation practice, (b) harmonizing human and nature’s needs in urban hydrosystems, (c) a better understanding of human-hydrosystem-relationships, and (c) finding ecosocial justice in water-related governance (WEFE: Water-Energy-Food-Ecosystem nexus)
The EUCOR Chair is hosted by the University of Strasbourg and the Karlsruher Institut für Technology KIT, with a strategic partnership by the French National School on Water and Environmental Engineering at Strasbourg, ENGEES. The Chair is financially supported by these schools and EUCOR-The European Campus, by regional authorities and an increasing number of private and industrial partners