IRES: Sustainable Clean Water Technologies for the UN's Millennium Development Goals - A Partnership Between UNESCO-IHE (Delft, Netherlands) and Univ. South Florida

该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）资助的。该奖项支持南佛罗里达大学和荷兰德尔夫特的UNESCO-IHE水教育研究所之间的合作研究计划。 水教育研究所是世界上最大的研究生水教育机构，也是联合国系统中唯一一个被授权授予认可的硕士学位和博士学位的机构。 每年，来自USF的六名学生（研究生和本科生）组成的团队将参加为期八周的夏季研究体验。反映水研究的跨学科性质，学生将从环境工程，全球健康，化学工程和环境职业健康中选择。 研究活动将侧重于开发技术，以帮助推进联合国？联合国千年发展目标在三个主要领域与安全饮用水和卫生有关：水回收和脱盐、废物处理促进卫生和能源以及水净化。 USF学生将由IHE教授，博士后研究人员和博士生指导。 学生将与IHE学生一起工作，其中许多人是来自发展中国家的水管理人员，并参观荷兰公用事业，其他大学和非政府组织。 互联网促进与USF的多媒体会议将在整个计划期间发生，并在计划结束时在IHE举行研讨会，让学生展示他们的研究成果。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).This award supports a collaborative research program between the University of South Florida and the UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education in Delft, the Netherlands. The Institute for Water Education is the largest postgraduate water education facility in the world and the only institution in the UN system authorized to confer accredited MSc degrees and promote PhDs. Annually, a team of six students (graduate and undergraduate) from USF will participate in an eight-week summer research experience. Reflecting the interdisciplinary nature of water studies, the students will be selected from environmental engineering, global health, chemical engineering and environmental & occupational health. The research activities will focus on developing technologies to help advance the UN?s Millenium Development Goals related to safe drinking water and sanitation in three main areas: water recycling and desalination, waste treatment for sanitation and energy, and water purification. USF students will be mentored by IHE professors, postdoctoral researchers and doctoral students. Students will work with IHE students, many of whom are water managers from developing countries, as well as visit Dutch utilities, other universities and NGOs. Internet-facilitated multimedia meetings with USF will occur throughout the program period and a symposium will be held at IHE at the end of the program for students to present their research findings.