Jan Cools Email & Phone Number

Ghent, BE

Appointed member to the UIAA Mountain Protection Commission on behalf of Belgium. The Commission aims amongst other to promote sustainable mountain regions development and rewards innovative initiatives in adventure tourism and mountain conservation. UIAA is the International Climbing and Mountaineering Federation.The UIAA believes all those who have a.

Antwerp Metropolitan Area

Business development, Initiation and coordination of research at the Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development of the University of Antwerp. He is primarily focusing on inter-disciplinary projects related to integrated environmental management and climate change adaptation for a wide range of topics, of which the most important are water and.

Gent Area, Belgium

Jan Cools has 15 years of experience as Instructor “Mountain Walking and Trekking” and 30 years of mountaineering experience in and out of Europe. In 2006, he acquired the Austrian degree of “Bergwanderführer” (German for mountain hiking guide). Since 2014, he is responsible for the course on the mountain environment (geology, ecology) for candidates for.

Gent Area, Belgium

Free-lance consultant working for national and international clients including the European Commission, NGO’s and research institutes· Watertight solutions to cope with environmental change· Specialised in bringing science into practice for integrated river basin management including biophysicalengineering, livelihood, ecosystem services, adaptive.

Brussels Area, Belgium

• Project manager and senior expert for a dynamic consultancy providing services primarily to international institutions. Clients include the European Commission (DG Environment, DG Climate Action, DG Research, European.
• Expert on interdisciplinary projects including freshwater, coastal, marine, natural hazards and biodiversity assessment and management, climate change adaptation, environmental economic analysis, risk assessment.
• Author of technical reports, policy documents, impact assessment and evaluation studies, guidance documents and capacity building documents
• Facilitator of interactive workshops for an international audience
• Setup and managing of international partnerships and networks
• Business development activities, project design and proposal writing

Geneva

PhD on "Tools for river basin management"

Ghent, Belgium

• Resource mobilization and formulation of multi-partner integrated project proposals
• Attracted 20,000,000 Euro funding (of which 2,000,000 own share) from the European Commission (7FP, LIFE, ERANET) corresponding to various projects in the areas of wetland and river basin management, ecosystem.
• General coordinator of 4 European research projects (project size from 800,000 to 4,000,000 Euro). Duties include project administration, budget negotiations, supervision of research work, financial and technical.
• Popular outreach, impact creation and peer-reviewed journal publications

The Hague Area, Netherlands

Between 2004 and 2008, Jan Cools was appointed as Commissioner of the then newly setup (in 2003) accreditation organisation for higher education for the Netherlands and Flanders/Belgium, abbreviated as NVAO. NVAO is a bi-national institute, directly under supervision of the Ministers of Education of the Netherlands and Flanders/Belgium. He was appointed as.

Brussels, Belgium

* Research on ‘Economic optimization and water quality modelling’ in Belgium and Russia respectively for the “Environmental Cost Model” project and the European funded project HYDROMANAGER* Coordinator of mapping of groundwater bodies for Flanders as contribution to the European Water Framework Directive* Tutor and supervisor of 10 MSc thesis on.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Tools For River Basin Management

(Supervisors: Prof. Anthony Lehmann, Prof. Martin Beniston) In this thesis, it is assessed how river basin management can be facilitated.

Master, Culture And Development Studies (Anthropology)

Integration of socio-economic development, technology, local culture & indigenous knowledge Title: Local knowledge on soil fertility and.

Master, Bio-Engineering In Land And Water Management

Activities and Societies: Landbouwkring; LOKO; VVSHydrology, Soil conservation and remediation, land evaluation, tropical agricultural.