Welcome to the Coordination Office of the Water Research Network Baden-Württemberg of KIT

Project Effect-Network in Water Research (© Institute for Evolution and Ecology, University of Tübingen)

Project Effect-Net: Analysis of zebrafish larva in the lab of Heidelberg University using a DanioScope of Noldus (© S. Mieck)

Project DRIeR: Drought Impacts, Processes and Resilience
Dreisam (Freiburg, Germany) in Summer 2018 (© V. Blauhut)

Low water in the river Rhine at Karlsruhe in autumn 2018
Project DRIeR: Information about the drought 2018

Project CHARM: Challenges of Reservoir Management

Schwarzenbachtalsperre (© S. Haun)

Project CHARM: Measuring Campaign Kleine Kinzig (© S. Haun)

The scope of the Water Research Network is to enhance the collaboration across disciplines and locations in Baden-Württemberg in order to meet the future challenges of water research. The network was founded at the initiative of the Ministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kunst Baden-Württemberg (Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts of the Land of Baden-Württemberg).

The Water Research Network is supported by the new Water Research Funding Programme of the Land of Baden-Württemberg. As a central component, three interdisciplinary joint projects, so called 'Forschernetzwerke' (researcher networks), are being funded for a period of five years.

NEWS

Antidepressants make fish easy prey: loss of natural reaction to stress

Press release of the project Effect-Net on effects of pharmaceuticals in the aquatic environment.

Press release

Special Issue 'Attention and Water Governance: An Agenda-Setting Perspective'

New Special Issue in the Journal Water with numerous articles from the Water Research Network.

Special Issue

Early Recognition of Potential Drought Impacts

Researchers develop a forecasting system and challenge the political agenda in this area

Press release of the University of Freiburg on the project DRIeR

Review Article in Water Research

Gerbersdorf et al. (2020) have published the measurement results of the workshop Flow – Biofilm – Sediments

Publication

6 Million Euros for Water Research

The Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts of the Land of Baden-Württemberg is funding 3 interdisciplinary joint projects of the universities Freiburg, Heidelberg, Karlsruhe, Konstanz, Stuttgart and Tübingen.

Press release of the Ministry