National and International Cooperations
Organisations
AA | Federal Foreign Office
www.auswaertiges-amt.de
BMBF | Federal Ministry of Education and Research
www.bmbf.de
BMUV | Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection
www.bmuv.de
BMDV | Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport
www.bmvi.de
BMZ | Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development
www.bmz.de
CHR | International Commission for the Hydrology of the Rhine basin
www.chr-khr.org
DFG | German Research Foundation
www.dfg.de
ERCE | European Regional Centre for Ecohydrology
www.erce.unesco.lodz.pl
ESA | European Space Agency
www.esa.in
FAO | Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
www.fao.org
GPCC | Global Precipitation Climatology Centre
www.dwd.de/EN/ourservices/gpcc/gpcc.html
GRDC | Global Runoff Data Centre
www.bafg.de
HKC | HochwasserKompetenzCentrum
www.hkc-online.de
IAH | International Association of Hydrogeologist
www.iah.org
ICWC | International Centre for Water Cooperation
www.siwi.org
IGRAC | International Groundwater Resources Assessment Centre
www.un-igrac.org
SWFP | Sustainable Water Future Programme
www.water-future.org
UNEP | United Nations Environment Programme
www.unep.org
UNESCO | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
www.unesco.org
UN Water
www.unwater.org
WMO | World Meteorological Organization
www.wmo.int
WWAP | World Water Assessment Programme
www.unesco.org/…/wwap
We work in close cooperation with numerous German institutions, such as:
- the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety, the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure, Federal Ministry of Education and Research and the Federal Foreign Office;
- the German National Meteorological Service (Deutscher Wetterdienst);
- the Department of Hydrological Engineering, RWTH Aachen University;
- the Department of Hydrogeology at the Faculty of Geosciences, Ruhr-Universität Bochum;
- the Department of Hydrology and International Water Management at the University of Applied Sciences, Lübeck;
- the Institute for Technology and Resources Management in the Tropics and Subtropics (ITT) at the TH Köln (Cologne Technical University);
- the Department of Aquatic Ecosystem Analysis at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Magdeburg;
- the Bonn Water Network.
We work in close international cooperation with many UN-institutions, international initiatives and institutes from other countries, such as:
- UN-Water und UNEP, in the context of a global water quality database called GEMStat (see section “data”);
- the land and water division of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), in the field of water consumption of agriculture;
- the European and Mediterranean FRIEND water groups, in the field of flow regimes and low-flows (see “Research” section);
- the Centre for Law, Policy and Science (Dundee), and the International Centre for Water Cooperation (Stockholm), on water diplomacy;
- the International Association of Hydrological Sciences, and the International Association of Hydrogeologists;
- the Global Runoff Data Centre (GRDC), and the Global Precipitation Climatology Centre (GPCC);
- the International Commission for the Hydrology of the Rhine basin, and the “Regional cooperation of the Danube countries in the field of hydrology within the framework of the International Hydrological Programme of UNESCO”.
- the Southern African Science Service Centre for Climate Change and Adaptive Land Management” (SASSCAL)