The project, promoted by the TUM educational fund, aims at providing master’s degree students of the TUM Department of Civil, Geo, and Environmental Engineering an opportunity to understand and experience what it means to work in an international scientific research project, by planning and performing scientifically relevant field-scale hydrological experiments. The field trip will be performed in collaboration with local and national institutions and within the DFG Projects SEHAG and Hydromix.

The activities are focused on different topics of water management: hydropower production and management in Alpine catchments, climate change and the Alpine cryosphere, contaminant loads in rivers, and ground water/surface water interaction. The students work in small groups, going through the project from its beginning developing a research question, organizing and performing the research activity, and presenting their research project to the community by writing scientific reports. The core activity of the project is part of the seminar ‘Water Management at the Catchment Scale’ (2 SWS) which is offered in the summer semester.