Research Cooperation
Workshop documents:
Presentations:
"Danish Water Research and Knowledge" by Miriam Feilberg
"Water Resources Management for Sustaining Water Use Purposes in West Java Province" by Dr.Ir. Suardi Natasaputra
"ITB and the Overview of Research Activities on Water Resources Development" by Indratmo Soekarno
"A Danish View on the Challenges and Possibilities within Water Resource Protection and Management" by René K. Juhler
"Spatial Flood Risk Modeling and Reliability Analysis in Determining Flood Defence System Criteria that Consider Acceptable Risk - Upper Citarum Basin" by Anik Sarminingsih
"Potential Impacts of Climate Change within Urban Water Management" by representative of West Java Province Regional Environmental Management Agency
Improving Research Cooperation between Indonesia and Denmark
On March the 3rd 2011 Danish Water
Forum participated in a workshop arranged by ITB, the Technical
University in Bandung, Indonesia. ITB is the leading technical
university in Indonesia. More than 50 lecturers, PhD Students and other
students participated in the workshop.
The theme of the workshop was: Urban Water
Management and climate change adaptation
From the Danish side the following
participated:
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Miriam Feilberg, Danish Water Forum: The Danish water sector and its services and research competencies
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Birgit Paludan, Municipality of Greve: Improving water management and storm water control in urban surroundings near the capitol of Copenhagen
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René K. Juhler, Researcher at GEUS - the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland: Research activities of GEUS, the "Danish view” on the challenges and possibilities within water resource protection and management.
From the Indonesian partners 14 presentations
introduced various topics related to urban water management focusing on
climate change adaptation, floods and storm water management. Among the
presenters were:
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Dr. Erdwan Kardena, Vice-Rector for Research and Innovation, giving a keynote speech on improving urban water management
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Prof. Dr. Ir. Indratmo Soekarno, Water Resources Development Center: ITB and the overview of research activities on water resources development
The workshop was opened with a
keynote speech by Denmark’s Ambassador in Indonesia, Børge Petersen.
This workshop was the first step
in a process leading towards more cooperation between researchers in
Denmark and Indonesia. Next step will be a visit by Indonesian
researcher to Denmark later in 2011.