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Conference on DAM SAFETY 2025 Resilient Infrastructure for A Sustainable Future
New Delhi
20 - 21 March, 2025
BRUSSELS HYDROPOWER DAY 2025 - Contribution of hydropower flexibility and storage in the safe energy transition in partnership with the environment under climate change
Le Bouche à Oreille; Rue Félix Hap, 11, 1040 Etterbeek and online
8 April 2025 - 9:15 AM – 4:15 PM CEST
17th ICOLD International Benchmark Workshop on Numerical Analysis of Dams
Sofia, Bulgaria
9th - 12th April 2025
Dams and Sustainability WEBINAR #2 - Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (LCSA)
Online Webinar
May 6, 2025 1pm - 3pm (CEST)
Fifth International Conference and Exhibition
Water Storage and Hydropower Development for Africa
Labadi Beach Resort, Accra, Ghana
8 to 10 July 2025
XXI technical dam control international conference
Cracow, Poland
09 - 12 September 2025
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Four questions selected for next ICOLD Congress in Vienna
The Congress will take place in Vienna 1-8 July 2018
(Paris, June 14th)
ICOLD General Assembly, during the 84th Annual meeting in Johannesburg, has voted to choose the four questions on which scientists and engineers from all over the world will work and communicate in Vienna.
This will be the 26th Congress of ICOLD. Those Congresses take place every three years and attract the best dam specialists. The attendance for those Congresses is between 1200 and 2000 people.
The deadlines for submitting a paper or a communication is 8 November 2017.
According to ICOLD Constitution and By-Laws, papers can be only submitted through one of the ICOLD National Committees.
Find here (pdf file) the exact wording of the Questions, as adopted by the General Assembly and a general presentation of ICOLD.
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