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Where Deltares makes the difference
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Delta technology is one of the most innovative sectors, with major export potential for the
Netherlands. Throughout the world, governments, business and lobby organisations need an
independent knowledge partner that can advise them and help them to resolve the highly
complex challenges that are emerging in delta areas: a combination of high population pressure,
urbanisation, high economic value and safeguarding the living environment. It is important to
start thinking now about the questions that will arise in the near future.
In recent years, Deltares has already demon-
strated how valuable it can be in this respect. We
have largely achieved our ambition - stated
earlier in the 2012-2015 Strategic Plan - to
establish a position as an international authori-
tative research institute in the field of water and
the subsurface. In addition to our contributions
to Dutch solutions such as the Delta Programme,
Room for the River and the Sea Defences research
programme, we have been involved in interna-
tional work in collaboration with Dutch business.
Examples are our activities in Singapore, Jakarta
and Mozambique, and our involvement in the
United States on the ‘Rebuild by Design’
programme for New York. We have transformed
ourselves from a merger organisation into a
tight-knit, demand-driven organisation with 30%
of our turnover located in other countries.
Our knowledge and innovations, on the basis of
an internationally recognised position, make
genuine contributions to life, and particularly
safe living, in deltas. We have a substantial
impact on science and society but we can’t rest
on our laurels. An ongoing focus and new solu-
tions are required to face up to the effects that
climate change and human activity have on
water and the subsurface. We will be firmly
committed to these aims in the time to come.
That will require high levels of knowledge,
collaboration and creativity because the chal-
lenges are greater than ever.
2.1 Our mission
‘Enabling delta life’ is our goal. We
contribute our top-level knowledge to
open up the way to innovative and
sustainable solutions for global issues
relating to the use, and the risks, of
water and the subsurface.
Deltares Strategic Plan
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