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VIrtual Campus In hydrology
and water Resources

VICAIRE Project
by
A. Musy EPFL (CH)
R. Drobot UTCB (RO)
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VIrtual Campus In hydrology and water
Resources
VICAIRE Project
An e-learning and distance training
courses
in Water Resources Use and Management
for students engineers
& interested scientists
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E-learning facility

Modern teaching method
with no direct contact with the students
with a course support as exhaustive as possible
- on a suitable computational platform (Web)
- allowing - interconnections between the various
documents offered
- interactivities between the people
concerned
offering a specific discipline, validated by a
international system of credits (ECTS)
using modern techniques of communication (internet,
umts,)
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Main objectives and advantages

Accessibility to a greater number of people
Flexibility in the training of students
More person-oriented teaching
E-learning teaching system
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VICAIRE Partners
1. Hydrology & Land Improvement (HYDRAM-ISTE), Swiss
Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland
2. Faculty of Hydrotechnology, Technical University of Civil
Engineering (TUCEB), Bucarest, Romania
3. Faculty of Hydrotechnics, Politehnica University
Timisoara, Timisoara, Romania,
4. Faculty of Hydrotechnics, Technical University Gh. Asachi
of Iasi (TUI), Iasi, Romania
5. Faculty of Geology and Geography, Sofia University St.
Kliment Ohridski , Sofia, Bulgaria
6. Kharkiv State Technical University of Civil Engineering and
Architecture (KSTUCA), Kharkiv, Ukraine
7. Ukrainian Scientific Research Institute of Ecological
Problems (USRIEP), Kharkiv, Ukraine
8. Technical University of Moldova (UTM), Chisinau, Moldova
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VICAIRE Sponsors

VICAIRE was proposed within the SCOPES 2000-2003
Scientific Cooperation between Eastern Europe and
Switzerland .
The project was accepted in October in 2000 and launched in
January 2001. Its main sponsors are:
Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)
Each partners Institution through internal manpower
Hydrology & Land Improvement Laboratory (HYDRAM-
ISTE), Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL),
Lausanne, Switzerland through internal manpower
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Main objectives of the VICAIRE project

Elaborate and develop an international and competitive
distance learning programme in the field of hydrology and
water resources
Provide hydrology and water resources courses, primarily, to
students within the partner institutions by offering them
appropriate teaching support documents with interactive
connections, and, secondly, propose them to other students of
the field, worldwide
Improve and modernise the existing teaching systems of
higher education in the partners institutes by adding web-based
courses easily available
Train specialists in the above-mentioned fields, capable of
managing surface and groundwater resources in any country,
whatever its geographical and/or socio-economical situation
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Module 0 Overview and Guide
This particular module has been set up to present the general
organisation and structure of the e-learning course to students
and other users.
It offers several facilities divided in three parts, namely:
Generalities:
- Introduction
- Presentation of the modules
Team:
- Partner institutions
- Module leaders
- Authors
Guides:
- Pedagogical concept
- Recommendations
- Reading guide
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Structure of the e-learning VICAIRE programme

Five scientific modules on hydrology and water resources:
1.A. Basic Hydrology: introduction and description of the water
cycle processes (11 chapters)
1.B. Engineering Hydrology: criteria and modelling for the
design of water works and their impacts (12 chapters)
2. Qualitative Hydrology: water quality and polluted system
(13 chapters)
3. Groundwater Hydrology: behavior and use of water in the
porous media (12 chapters)
4. Management of Water Resources: hydrosystems behaviours
& management and decision-making principles (8 chapters)
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Structure of module
Each scientific module is composed of several chapters and
subchapters





an extended summary, available for downloads
textbooks with interactive links and keywords
exercises with solutions
quiz and self evaluation tests
extended web-links (not completely implemented)
a specific bibliography
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CONTENT : Module 1 a Basic Hydrology
1. The hydrological cycle
2. Watershed characteristics
3. Precipitation
4. Evaporation and Transpiration
5. Infiltration
6. Surface and sub-surface storage
7. Runoff and sub-surface flows
8. Hydrographs
9. Instrumentation and monitoring
10. Hydrological data
11. General bibliography
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CONTENT : Module 1 b Engineering
Hydrology
1. Basic concepts of the systems theory
2. Design storm
3. Production function
4. Transfer function
5. Routing Function, Part 1 Hydrological approach
6. Routing Function, Part 2 Hydraulic approach
7. Mathematical modelling in hydrology (basic concepts)
8. Catchment hydrology, Part 1 Floods models
9. Catchment hydrology, Part 2 Medium- & low-flow models
10. Urban hydrology
11. Parameters calibration
12. General bibliography
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CONTENT : Module 2 Qualitative Hydrology
1. Terminology and definitions
2. Water quality characteristics
3. Water quality and hydrological cycle
4. Natural quality in streams and rivers
5. Temperature and quality of water
6. Pollution & self-purification of streams and rivers
7. Surface-water quality in urban areas
8. Transport of reacting solute in streams and rivers
9. Water quality modelling
10. Water quality management
11. Eco-hydrological consequences of polluted streams and rivers
12. River sediments
13. General bibliography
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CONTENT : Module 3 Groundwater Hydrology
1. Porous media
2. Aquifers
3. Water in porous media
4. Water potential in porous media
5. Darcys Law
6. General flow equations in porous media
7. Transport equation in porous media
8. Field and laboratory tests
9. Regional groundwater flow
10. Mathematical modelling of regional aquifers
11. Rehabilitation of the polluted aquifers
12. General bibliography
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CONTENT :Module 4 Management of Water
resources
1. Water resources
2. Modern water-economy complex, water supply,
water consumption, water usage
3. Water legislation, economic and ecological constraints
4. Strategy of water resources management
5. Water resources monitoring
6. Protection of water resources
7. Water resources management tools
8. Case studies
9. General bibliography
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VICAIRE requirements
(at the Institution level)

To be able to use this e-learning facility, the elements below
should be available:
a computer room with web access, opened to students
with opening hours similar to a library
a computer system organisation (intranet or internet) for a
forum of discussion (questions and remarks)
in the institution concerned and during the semester in
which the courses taken place, scientific personnel trained
to answers the questions within a 24-hours period,
maximum, if possible
email connection for the teacher concerned

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