The Water and Environmental Engineering Group (GEAMA) is among the beneficiaries of the new higher education grant programme called by the European Geosciences Union EGU.
The aim of this programme is to enable the preparation of teaching resources that will be available free of charge to all those who teach geosciences at university level. The EGU, which has 20,000 members within the international scientific community, established this program after a survey of university educators indicated that there was a high demand for geoscience teaching resources.
The EGU awarded a total of 14 grants with the aim of making the resources available to the university teaching community in response to major educational challenges. The project for which the GEAMA was selected is «River flood hazard modelling and management» in which researchers from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya also participate. It is based on a training program with the Iber simulation model for surface water flows and transport processes in rivers and estuaries.