The UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education in Delft has already trained over 15, 000 experts from 160 countries.

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Even the flood forecasting software used by the Environment Agency, Delft-FEWS, has been developed by the Dutch.

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"Then, if everybody's happy, we can think about trying to commercialise the product, " said the TU Delft researcher.

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Most of the operations, management of the stores, design and manufacture of furniture is run by a trust, INGKA Holding, headquartered in Delft, Holland.

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He did so together with researchers of the Water Engineering Department of UNESCO-IHE, faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences at TU Delft and knowledge institution Deltares.

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Scientist Rosh Ranasinghe, associate professor at UNESCO-IHE and TU Delft, has now succeeded in developing a new model that is able to produce much more accurate projections.

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Elsewhere in the gallery, four perfect paintings by Vermeer, who defines perfection in art, share an alcove with exciting pictures by the more nonchalant Pieter de Hooch, his fellow citizen of Delft.

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During the visit of the Director General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova, to Uruguay, on September 13, 2012 were awarded five scholarships to Uruguayan professionals under the cooperation between the National Agency for Research and Innovation of Uruguay (ANII) and the Institute for Water Education (UNESCO-IHE, Delft, Netherlands).

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