WAVE is a cooperation of six universities and three NGO-partners. In addition, all universities will build up a collaboration with their local communities on water areas in the form of WAVE Living Labs. The project runs from December 2020 - December 2022

The WAVE programme aims at involving an interdisciplinary audience of students as agents of transformative change for the benefits of the local water landscapes.

Disciplines involved are mainly geography, agriculture, ecology, landscape architecture, urban and regional planning, architecture, social and urban studies.

The project addresses the pressing issue of sustainable development of water areas and floodplains in the urban and peri-urban environment. Sustainable development of water areas and floodplains is still not achieving its full potential, although relevant policy is already in place.

The WAVE project consortium is developing  a new course focusing on the sustainable development of water areas and floodplains in urban and peri-urban contexts in Europe.

Our learning format is the so-called WAVE Living Lab in combination with the international WAVE Online Seminar.

This includes provision of open learning materials which you can access further below on this website.

For more information please visit our project wiki.

Contact person at HfWU Nürtingen-Geislingen: Dr. Ellen Fetzer