Mission
Building practical responses to climate change through water-focused collaboration
The Global Water and Climate Adaptation Centre brings together RWTH Aachen University, AIT Bangkok, IIT Madras, UNU-FLORES, and TU Dresden to address climate change with a particular focus on water security and adaptation. The collaboration is built on the idea that global challenges demand shared knowledge, coordinated action, and long-term academic partnerships.
Across the centre, research, teaching, and transfer are designed to move together. Scientific exchange supports new methods and evidence, educational programs prepare future environmental leaders, and transfer activities connect research results to policy and practice.
The centre's work contributes directly to the broader agenda of the Sustainable Development Goals, especially SDG 6 on water and sanitation. Clean water is a basic human need, but it is also tightly connected to health, cities, food systems, ecosystems, and resilience. That is why the centre links regional expertise with a global perspective.
What the centre enables
Why it matters
Water-related climate risks are shared across regions, but responses must be grounded in local realities. The centre creates a space where those realities can be studied together and translated into practical action.
Structure
Three pillars of operative structure
