During ClimateCafé Cairo and Nile delta students from Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences, course Water Management work with students from Cairo University, department of Agriculture. The focus of the ClimateCafé are the issues that small landholders and farmers face in the area around Luxor, a train ride of about 12 hours away from Cairo. The World Food Program and the Dutch embassy provided information for the case studies in Luxor. The Dutch and Egyptian students worked in mixed teams and presented their solutions for the stakeholders in Luxor and in the online climatecafe GroenBlauw. As part of the program the Aswan dam is visited, which is one of the largest dams in the world. The low Aswan dam was constructed in 1902 to reduce the annual flooding of the river Nile.
in Impression of the climatecafe Egypt:
presentations of the results in ClimateCafe GroenBlauw online (February 2023):