Reducing the impact of flooding in KazakhstanAES Assitant Professor, Dr. Bastian van den Bout, was invited to join the Dutch Disaster Risk REduction and Surge support (DRRS) mission to Kazakhstan, co-organized by the Dutch and Kazakh authorities.Read more
New MSc programme Humanitarian Engineering will start in September 2025The University Council has officially approved the new Master programme in Humanitarian Engineering to start in September 2025. The programme aims to equip engineering professionals with a set of skills and knowledge around cultural and ethical responsibility and resilience when dealing with high levels of uncertainty and working within underserved and marginalized communities. Students will work on complex humanitarian challenges all over the world and create sociotechnological solutions, for example by contributing to disaster-resilient housing, developing solutions for safe water access or providing refugee camps with sustainable power solutions. The programme hopes to attract a diverse group of students, both with technical and non-technical backgrounds. The MSc programme will also be accessible for students through a pre-master. The pre-master programme is intended to start in the academic year 2025-2026 as well.Read more
Reducing the impact of flooding in Kazakhstan
New MSc programme Humanitarian Engineering will start in September 2025
Cheryl de Boer appointed Strategic Director of UT Climate Centre
The Centre of Disaster Resilience (CDR) awarded funding for Geo-Techno-Social Projects
SAVE the DATE: 12 July mini-symposium Science Communication
The recent deadly heatwave across the Asian continent was made worse by climate change
Faculty of ITC leading in geospatial research
Paul Vermunt receives Living Planet Fellowship from ESA
Navigating data privacy and responsible geoinformation use in humanitarian contexts: The “Do No Harm” Project
Interested in exploring effective reconstruction support? (workshop)
Marc van den Homberg new professor at Princess Margriet Chair
The 7th NEEDS Conference at ITC: Uniting minds, bridging gaps to build disaster resilient societies
