The Wageningen Institute for Environment and Climate Research (WIMEK) is one of the six Graduate Schools at Wageningen University (WU). WIMEK was founded in 1993 to coordinate the research activities and PhD education of the WU chair groups involved in this research field.
WIMEK aims to develop an integrated understanding of environmental change and its impact on the quality of life and sustainability, by (i) conducting innovative scientific research, (ii) offering PhD training and education, and (iii) dissemination of emerging insights and recent research results.
Currently, about 240 PhD candidates have been enrolled in WIMEK, of which about 50% coming from abroad. We aim to support PhD candidates in their personal and scientific development by offering them a challenging scientific research environment, a national and international scientific network of environmental researchers and an advanced training and education programme.
To reach these goals WIMEK has also strongly supported the development of an inter-university network of environmental research groups at national level. This has resulted in the establishment of the Netherland Research School of the Socio-Economic and Natural Sciences of the Environment (SENSE) in 1994.
Now, environmental research groups from ten Dutch universities and UNESCO-IHE collaborate in SENSE and WIMEK is by far the largest participating institute. |
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