IAHS Academy
The International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS) proudly established the IAHS Academy in July 2023 in occasion of the 28th IUGG General Assembly held in Berlin, Germany. The IAHS Academy's mission is to organise summer/winter short schools, training and educational programs to advance and promote hydrological sciences globally.
The IAHS Academy events will also serve IAHS's mission in:
- Engaging, training and valuing the next generation of hydrologists
- Supporting young water scientists in achieving an academic or business career supported by state of the art hydrological data, knowledge and tools
- Foster transdisciplinarity and diversity merging efforts and capacities of the hydrological community with other disciplines both from earth and environmental sciences as well as from social sciences and humanities
- Promote open science, open data, gender dimension, international cooperation and capacity building across diverse hydro-climate, social, economic and geographic regions of the world.
A shared organisational and scientific effort will be developed by the IAHS Academy that aims to reach a critical mass of lecturers and students that will be selected and supported to join the IAHS Academy events. Key scientific and organisation specifications of IAHS Academy events are:
- IAHS Academy aims to organize multiple short courses at the same in the same venue time bringing together world leading water professors to provide a week-long advanced training to young doctoral students, young scientists and professionals to shape next generation of hydrologists
- The IAHS academy steering committee identifies and collaborate yearly with a hosting country/institution in order to select a venue to support the multiple parallel Schools/Topics
- The IAHS Academy will be organized every year in a different country that will be selected for hosting 100-120 young scientists (mainly PhD students, but also graduate students and postdocs) and 10+ teaching academics
- From two to four parallel Schools/Topics are jointly organized supported by international keynote professors and further academics selected from the hosting country/institution. The teaching team will be supported by teaching assistants to also support hands-on during the training
- The IAHS Academy Steering Committee works with the Local Organization Committees to co-identify topics, lecturers and invite participants from relevant graduate and post-graduate programs, academic and industry networks, organizations and institutions
- United Nation agencies (UNESCO IHP, WMO, FAO, etc.) and relevant UN programs and networks together with further relevant international and regional (co-identified with the hosting country/institution) organizations are solicited to give patronage, establish synergies and provide support.ì
IAHS Academy 12-18 January 2026 in Ningbo, China
Visit the 2026 IAHS Academy edition webpage for more info and to apply
IAHS Academy Permanent Steering Committee
Fernando Nardi (IAHS Academy Chair)
For more information contact IAHS Academy Chair: Fernando Nardi