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Deltares ORGANISATION DELTARES, OCTOBER 2019 The international scientific conference FLOODrisk will be organised for the fourth time in 2020. The theme of the event from 31 August to 4 September 2020 in Budapest will be 'Science and practice for an uncertain future'. The deadline for the submission of abstracts was 16 September. At the end of November, the scientific committee will announce which abstracts have emerged from the selection procedure. Deltares will be organising this congress with Samui, HR Wallingford, Irstea and the Technical University of Budapest. For more information: floodrisk2020.net We have brought together the results of 44 research projects in a new edition of the R&DHighlights. Themagazine provides a selection of all the projects on which Deltares works in collaboration with partners. It gives a good impression of the versatility of the themes water and the subsurface. For more information: media.deltares.nl/R&D_highlights/edition2019/ FLOODRISK 2020 CONFERENCE 44 The tenth international symposium on land subsidence (TISOLS) will be in Delft and Gouda (NL) from 20 to 24 April 2020. Land subsidence is a major global problem that threatens the liveability and sustainable economic development of areas that are home to millions of people. The risk is particularly acute in highly urbanised coastal areas. Land subsidence is often the result of the over-exploitation of groundwater sources. The total costs worldwide amount to several billions of dollars. Targeted strategies New innovative technologies and approaches are therefore needed to reduce land subsidence or, in the best possible scenario, stop it. TISOLS2020 wants to bring together more than three hundred international experts to share the latest research and insights about natural and anthropogenic subsidence. In this way, the conference will provide a platform for sharing knowledge about land subsidence, reliable data and innovative techniques. Ultimately, our aim is to gain recognition for the problems caused by land subsidence. And, by extension, the development of targeted strategies and solutions for sustainable living conditions in the long term in areas affected by subsidence. We are therefore taking up the challenge of linking hydrological, geotechnical and geological knowledge to policy and socially acceptable solutions. TISOLS is being organised under the aus- pices of the Unesco IHP Land Subsidence International Initiative. This working group has been working on improving and disse- minating knowledge about land subsidence since the 1970s through international conferences on land subsidence, collabora- tive projects and publications. For more information: tisols2020.org 31 TISOLS2020: CONFERENCE ON LAND SUBSIDENCE