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Blended Intensive Programme Erasmus + « Sustainable River Management »
From March 12, 2024 to March 16, 2024
University of Stuttgart
Ten students from the graduate research school H2O’Lyon took part in a one-week exchange at the University of Stuttgart as part of the Erasmus+ Blended Intensive Programme on ‘Sustainable River Management’.
This international and interdisciplinary educational project was organised jointly by H2O’Lyon, the University of Stuttgart in Germany and the University of Padua in Italy. Master’s students from three institutions within the EUR H2O’Lyon network (Lumière Lyon 2 University, Jean Monnet University in Saint-Étienne and Claude Bernard Lyon 1 University) were able to take part. This programme, focusing on river management, aimed to bring together perspectives from different disciplines – ranging from the life sciences to sociology – and from different countries.
The students worked in groups to devise an initiative, drawing on everything they had learnt during the programme, with the aim of encouraging as many people as possible to get involved in the sustainable management of rivers.
Before departure, online courses provided by each participating institution helped to prepare students for the intensive week of face-to-face learning in Stuttgart:
While there, the students were accompanied by Anne Weiß, academic coordinator of the Master’s programme in Water Resources Engineering and Management (WAREM) at the University of Stuttgart. During an excursion along the Danube, Philipp Thumser and Christian Haas from the company “I am Hydro” presented the river restoration work being carried out on this river, which is the second longest in Europe and the longest in the European Union. The group also visited the Franco-German hydroelectric dam at Iffezheim on the Rhine. A one-day workshop was led by Aude Montillet from the company AWAYKE. The aim? To enable everyone to get to know one another better and to better understand their role within a group, thereby making teamwork more effective. This workshop was a success and proved useful for the final presentations.
Read Clémence’s feedback – a first-year Master’s student in Risk and Environment – on this page.
We hope to be able to repeat this experience next year – perhaps in Lyon!
The students worked in groups to devise an initiative, drawing on everything they had learnt during the programme, with the aim of encouraging as many people as possible to get involved in the sustainable management of rivers.
Before departure, online courses provided by each participating institution helped to prepare students for the intensive week of face-to-face learning in Stuttgart:
- The human footprint on rivers: Understanding anthropogenic impacts and innovations in sediment management. (Stefan Haun, Univ Stuttgart).
- The role of fluvial geomorphology in Italy’s main river restoration project: the Po River renaturation plan. (Simone Bizzi, Univ Padoue).
- Interdisciplinarity and intersectorality in river science: an application to the River Rhône. (Hervé Piegay, ENS de Lyon).
While there, the students were accompanied by Anne Weiß, academic coordinator of the Master’s programme in Water Resources Engineering and Management (WAREM) at the University of Stuttgart. During an excursion along the Danube, Philipp Thumser and Christian Haas from the company “I am Hydro” presented the river restoration work being carried out on this river, which is the second longest in Europe and the longest in the European Union. The group also visited the Franco-German hydroelectric dam at Iffezheim on the Rhine. A one-day workshop was led by Aude Montillet from the company AWAYKE. The aim? To enable everyone to get to know one another better and to better understand their role within a group, thereby making teamwork more effective. This workshop was a success and proved useful for the final presentations.
Read Clémence’s feedback – a first-year Master’s student in Risk and Environment – on this page.
We hope to be able to repeat this experience next year – perhaps in Lyon!
