Strategische Agenda 2022-2025

Strategic Agenda - Focus on the Future, Fast Forward Now 21 During the coming period, we will be working on four areas where we want to strengthen and accelerate. First of all, we will be introducing more focus to our mission-driven work in the fields where we want to make an impact on society in collaboration with other partners, other knowledge organisations and clients. Secondly, we will be strengthening our knowledge base by moving ahead faster in the field of our data and software. Thirdly, we will be strengthening the alliances with our partners in the Netherlands. And the fourth area will be the strengthening of our international position. Our knowledge base continues to be crucial here. 3.1 | Area 1: focus in mission- driven work and alliances Deltares is giving the global, European and Dutch agendas and missions a central position in the thinking and activities of our organisation. Our mission-driven approach will therefore fully mirror the missions under the MTIB. They constitute a starting point and source of inspiration in our day-to-day work and provide the perspectives underlying our work. At the same time, they embody the long-term goals and impact on society that we target and where we want to make a contribution. Mission-driven work introduces focus and cohesion to our work. Our mission of Enabling Delta Life targets safe, sustainable, future-proof living in deltas, coastal and river areas: how do we make our living environment safe and sustainable in the short term and how do we keep it liveable, safe and sustainable in the long term? We have defined four mission areas that serve as four perspectives for the way we see the delta and that we use as yardsticks for our work in the delta. The four perspectives are not separate. The future studies in Future deltas provide frameworks for robust, future- proof solutions relating to current policy intentions, and measures to address issues facing society. Those solutions are elaborated in Sustainable deltas, Safe deltas or Resilient infrastructure. Together, they cover the domain of delta technology. They use different, but partly overlapping, scales for time and space. In Future deltas, our question is: how will deltas, and the linked coastal areas and catchments, develop as a result of changes in the supplies of water and sediment, rising sea levels and land subsidence? But also as a result of changes in the size of the population, economic development and new technology? By properly describing these processes and developments in long-term scenarios, it is possible, despite the uncertainties, to make sound assessments of how to act now in order to keep deltas, coastal areas and catchments safe and resilient. This knowledge is essential, if only to ensure that the Netherlands will remain the world's best protected delta in the long term. We want to use this knowledge to help ensure that action perspectives are also available elsewhere in the world and that the right measures are taken. The main question addressed by Sustainable deltas is: which action perspectives can we develop to ensure that ecosystems and natural resources will continue to be available for future generations in the urbanised deltas? Future deltas How do deltas change in response to sea level rise and land subsidence, population growth and economic growth? Sustainable deltas How do we ensure that ecosystems and natural resources will also be available for future generations? Safe deltas How do we protect the growing population and economy from extreme events linked to water and the subsurface? Resilient infrastructure How do we make our infrastructure resilient on land and water? Adaptive where necessary while preserving functionality. Figure 3.1 The four mission areas, four perspectives, for how we see the delta and that we use as yardsticks for our work in the delta