Strategische Agenda 2022-2025

Focus on the Future, Fast Forward Now Foreword Focus on the Future, Fast Forward Now. Agility is more important than ever. Our environment is changing rapidly and unpredictability is increasing. The challenges facing society are gigantic and complex, and they require an integrated, systemic approach. Examples include climate change, sea level rise, land subsidence, salinisation, drought and pressure on space. The point of departure for our Strategic Agenda is our mission: Enabling Delta Life. As an independent non-profit research institute, we contribute to innovative solutions that improve life in deltas. Looking far into the future and applying those insights to our work in the present. That is what we do on a day-to-day basis. How do we stay relevant with our knowledge and address the right questions? We have listened to what our stakeholders consider important, looked at trends we observe, and thought critically about where we are now in order to learn from the past. That has resulted in a number of broad outlines for the period 2022-2025 which we describe in this Strategic Agenda. Like the four other TO2 institutions in the Netherlands, we are engaging in this reconsideration for the Ministry of Economic Affairs. We are looking four years ahead but this course is not set in stone. For Deltares, it is a compass that provides inspiration. Where real events require an acceleration or a change in our course, we will trim our sails accordingly. We use our annual plans to set out the specific details of how we intend to achieve our ambitions. Deltares is in good shape and so we are fully committed to our work. Sound knowledge about water and the subsurface is urgently needed to keep our densely populated deltas liveable, sustainable and safe. Now and in the future. In the Netherlands and throughout the world. The heart of our work is our ambition to make an impact on society by drawing on the power of our knowledge. And so we have made a switch to mission-driven work. The impact that we want to achieve will determine our agenda and priorities more. That is an important yardstick for our success.

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