Refresher courses

Refresher courses aim to help alumni keep up to date. They are supported by Nuffic, the Dutch organization for internationalisation in education, and are open to alumni who have studied in the Netherlands with Orange Knowledge Programme/Netherlands Fellowship Programme scholarships and are living in countries that are included on a Nuffic country list.

Refresher courses are typically one week long, feature interactive lectures, group activities and group discussions, field trips, presentations by participants, networking events and a concluding ceremony during which certificates of attendance are awarded. 

 

• Facilitating exchanges of experiences among alumni from different countries facing similar issues and problems in their professional capacities;
• Enhancing and strengthening relationships among alumni, and between them and IHE Delft;
• Adapting and improving the approaches and contents of courses held at IHE Delft on the basis of the experiences and practices of professionals working in developing countries; and
• Exploring opportunities for establishing and strengthening local and regional knowledge centres that are part of regional and global networks for capacity building in the water, environment and infrastructure sectors.