Czech University of Life Sciences Prague INTERNATIONALISATION OF STUDY PROGRAMMES AT CULS PRAGUE Pavel Kovar IAHS Conference HydroPredict 20 to 23 September 2010, Prague, Czech Republic 2010 http://www.czu.cz Czech University of Life Sciences Prague Czech University of Life Sciences Prague five Faculties, two Institutes, 52 Departments, more than 20,000 students AGROBIOLOGY, FOOD & NATURAL RESOURCES (FAFNR) FORESTRY & WOOD SCIENCES (FFWS) ECONOMICS & MANAGEMENT (FEM) AGRI ENGINEERING (FT) 17 Departments 6 Departments 11 Departments 10 Departments ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES Institute of Tropics and Subtropics Institute of Education and Communication 5 Departments Faculty of Environmental Sciences 6 Departments, 2 500 students (90 PhD) Tradition: Sharing experience in international water focused programmes 2010 http://www.czu.cz Czech University of Life Sciences Prague CULS/FES STRATEGY IN WATER SCIENCES • POSTGRADUATE HYDROLOGY COURSES (since 1960´s, UNESCO–sponsored, last course in 2004) • WORKSHOPS on Water Disaster Prevention and on Hydrologic Modelling (since 2005) • PhD PROGRAMMES in: - ENVIRONMENTAL MODELLING - WATER REGIME IMPROVEMENTS IN LANDSCAPE • 2010 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES (focused on water sciences) WATER POLICY 2009 (Prague), 2011 (Vienna) HYDROPREDICT 2010 (Prague) http://www.czu.cz Czech University of Life Sciences Prague INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION CULS PRAGUE: Member of ICA and ELLS (Association of European Life Sciences Universities) ELLS: Uppsala (S),Coppenhagen (DK), Wageningen (NL), Stuttgart-Hohenheim (D), Vienna (A), Prague (CZ), Warsaw (PL) MOBILITY: Exchange of PhD students, exchange of professors (Wageningen-Vienna-Prague in particular) VISITS: Students and teachers not only for PhD students: WORKSHOP 1: Water Disaster Prevention (Prague) WORKSHOP 2: Environmental Modelling (Šumava / Böhmerwald) CONFERENCES: Water Policy 2009, (2011) 2010 http://www.czu.cz Czech University of Life Sciences Prague Summer School on Water Disaster Prevention CULS Prague June 20 to 26 2010 2010 http://www.czu.cz