Reporting format for UNESCO’s Water-related Chairs on activities for the period June 2018 – March 2021 1. Basic information Water and Education for Sustainable Full Name of the Chair Development Name of Chair holder Mario Schreider any other contacts (other focal Marta Paris points/co-chair, etc.) [email protected] _ E-mail [email protected] Telephone number +5493426308606 Website fich.unl.edu.ar/catedraunesco/ Mailing Address Geographic scope * global regional Specify which Region(s) (if Latinoamerica applicable) Year of establishment 2013 Year of renewal 2017 groundwater urban water management rural water management arid / semi-arid zones humid tropics cryosphere (snow, ice, glaciers) water related disasters (drought/floods) Erosion/sedimentation, and landslides ecohydrology/ecosystems water law and policy social/cultural/gender dimension of water/youth transboundary river basins/ aquifers mathematical modelling hydroinformatics Focal Areas remote sensing/GIS IWRM Themes Watershed processes/management global change and impact assessment mathematical modelling water education water quality nano-technology waste water management/re-use Of activities during reporting period reporting during activities Of water/energy/food nexus water systems and infrastructure Water Diplomacy Climate Change other: (please specify) _____water security and SDG; Environmental assessment of river basins; Implementation and Management of * check on appropriate box check all that apply Environmental Flows; Strengthening basin organizations. vocational training postgraduate education continuing education public outreach research institutional capacity-building advising/ consulting Scope of Activities software development data-sets/data-bases development Knowledge/sharing Policy Advice/Support Publication and documentation other: (please specify) __________________ Existing networks RALCEA, CODIA, Cap-Net, LA WET net, Arg Cap /cooperation/partnerships 1 Net. RELOC, UNESCO IHP Facultad de Ingeniería y Ciencias Hídricas Please state any other Institutional (Universidad Nacional del Litoral) – Santa Fe – affiliations of the chairholder Argentina. total number of staff (full-time, or equivalent) : __ 2_______ Six people are involved in the staff at partial time (10 hours /week) number of staff who are water experts: ___4 ____ Number of staff and types of staff number of visiting scientists and postgraduate students: __5 _______ Annual budget in USD The activities developed by the Chair are supported by different financial sources like RALCEA; CODIA, UNESCO IHP. The funds Sources of financial support 2 leverage is the main way thorough the Chair can deliver the activities. The common expenditures, and administrative cost are funded by the Universidad Nacional del Litoral 1 please indicate international networks, consortiums or projects that the chair/ network of Chairs is part of, or any other close links that the chair has with international organizations or programs, which are not already mentioned above 2 please specify sources of main budgetary and extra budgetary funds to implement projects 2. Activities undertaken in the framework of IHP in the period June 2018 – April 2020 (e.g. of activities Training, Publications, outreach, knowledge sharing, conference organized, papers presented, policy advice).Please provide gender specific data. Summary This UNESCO chair “Water and Education for Sustainable Development” is developed at Facultad de Ingeniería y Ciencias Hídricas (FICH) of Universidad Nacional del Litoral (UNL). The general aim of the Chair is to contribute to the development of institutional, social and individual capacities for water governance and sustainable development in Latin America. Accordingly, activities are undertaken to enhance a synergic collaboration between specialists that with an integrated view will be able to outline research and postgraduate teaching goals, work with different social players to create new knowledge and expand their collective capacities through training programs and institutional strengthening. These activities are flexible, dynamic and innovative, and they focus on social, economic, and cultural development in Argentina and other Latin American countries. The UNESCO Chair Water and Education for Sustainable Development joins, UNL-FICH forces with interested institutions, at present, and in the future by means of inter- institutional networks, in order to foster training and research activities as well as the development and public awareness of Argentina and other regions’ water resources. This Chair was created as an institutional space that aims at fostering synergies that encourage active collaboration among professionals, researchers, lecturers, teachers, students and other interested groups that could work towards agreements with other teaching and research centers, non-governmental organizations, government institutions and companies. Thus, it will effectively include all the actors related to water and acknowledge the role each one plays in society. The academic expertise of the FICH and its valuable experience in the focal interest area of our Chair are outstanding features that support the development of this Chair. The goals of this Chair, which are convergent with those of the FICH, encourage a synergy that strengthen the development of the Chair activities as well as the capacities of the Faculty and the other interested institutions. Activities Courses, workshops and seminaries organized or co-organized by the Chair • Online Seminars Cycle: Water management and the SDG´s in the frame of climatic change. Jointly organized with CEDDET Foundation Spain. July – November 2018. Scope: Latin America. 190 participants. 45 % women. • Regional Course in Integrated Groundwater Management. Face to face course. Montevideo Oct. 2018. Organized jointly with CODIA and UNESCO IHP. Scope: Latinamerican countries. 21 participants: 12 women and 9 men from 16 countries (Argentina, Brasil, Bolivia, Chile, Costa Rica, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, México, Nicaragua, Panamá, Paraguay, Perú y Uruguay). • Water Security and the SDG´s Online course for decision makers. Sept. – Nov. 2018. Organized jointly with UNESCO IHP, CIH. Scope: Latin América. 426 participants 50% women. (211 men and 215 women from: Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, Ecuador, Colombia, Bolivia, Brasil, México, Perú, Venezuela, Angola, Canadá, Estados unidos, Chile, Nicaragua, Panamá, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, República Dominicana, Italia, Costa Rica y España. • Virtual Water and wáter footprint. Face to face course. Developed in the frame of the V Interdisciplinary sessions “The water cycle in agriculture ecosystems”. Organized jointled with the Buenos Aires University and Arg Cap Net. Buenos Aires 12 al 16 de noviembre de 2018. 32 participants 55% women • Regional Workshop on Strengthening of Basin Organization and Water Governance Latin América. Face to face course. Cartagena Colombia. November 2018. Organized jointly with CODIA, UNESCO IHP, Spanish Cooperation (AECID) and Colombia Presidential Agency of Cooperation. Scope Latin America. 33 participant, 16 women. • The following courses are belonging to the Master program on Integrated Water Resources Management (National University of Litoral, National University of Cordoba, and the National University of Cuyo) and were delivered during the second semester of 2018. 15 participants attended the courses, more than 50% were women. ✓ Evaluation and water footprint of an enterprise. ✓ Water governance: Theory and practice of the integrated basin management. • The following course were delivered during 2019 in the frame of the mandatory cycle of the Master Program on Integrated Water Resource Management. 10 participants attended the courses, 8 of them were women. ✓ Water as a resource ✓ Integrated water resources management ✓ Water and society ✓ Water and health ✓ Legislation and institutional frame ✓ Economy of water resources ✓ Basin management • Integrating Global Change knowledge to decision-making processes in La Plata Basin: a transdisciplinary approach. Post graduate course and International Seminary. September 8 – 14 2019. Organized jointly with The Intermerican Institute for Global Change Research (IAI), World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the School of Engineering and Water Science (FICH) from the Universidad Nacional del Litoral (UNL). 38 participants, 30 women http://www.iai.int/en/post/detail/Integrating-Global-Change- knowledge-to-decision-making-processes-in-La-Plata-Basin:-a-transdisciplinary- approach-#committee • Forum: Building the dialogue between Science and Policy in the framework of Global Change Thursday, September 12, 2019 – 15:00 hours. Organized in the frame of the postgraduate course: Integrating Global Change knowledge to decision-making processes in La Plata Basin: a transdisciplinary approach. 150 participants, 45% women. • Online course on Water Sustainable Management. Oct. 21 to Nov 15, 2019. Organized jointly with Arg Cap Net. 100 participants, 50% women. • Water Governance in Latin America and the Caribbean on line course. 2° edition. Organized jointly with LA WET net, RALCEA, CODIA and Cap Net. Sep – Nov. 2019. Scope: Latin America and Spanish Caribbean. 99 participants 50% women. • Face to face course on “Groundwaters, water security and governance, with emphasis in transboundary basins. Organized jointly with Latin America Network of Knowledge Centers in Water Management (RALCEA); Faculty of Engineering and