Online courses, conveniently from anywhere you live or work
IHE Delft offers high-quality online courses in an increasing number of topics of interest in the water sector. The innovative delivery format makes learning exciting, flexible, interactive and effective.
3+1 reasons why to sign up
Part-time
With an average of 8 study hours per week, the courses allow you to combine your study with work and private life
Convenience
Learn late at night or early in the morning, at your home, office or café, the choice is yours
Instantly applicable
Immediately apply the new knowledge in your working environment
Learn together
Interact with fellow professionals from all over the world
Discounts on tuition fee
The following discounts for online courses are available:
- (when invoiced to) employer organization that is a UN family member: tuition fee -10%
- IHE Delft diploma alumni: tuition fee -30%
Open courseware
IHE Delft is committed to making its knowledge and educational resources freely accessible through our open courseware platform wherever possible.
The open courseware platform offers access to learning materials only. In contrast, the online courses listed on this page include additional services such as tutorials, guidance, interactive sessions, assessments, feedback, and more. These courses also come with formal registration, certification, credits (when applicable), and alumni benefits.
Tuition fees support the cost of these added services and contribute to the ongoing development and expansion of our learning resources.
Upcoming Online Courses
IHE Delft offers high-quality online courses in an increasing number of topics of interest in the water sector. The innovative delivery format makes learning exciting, flexible, interactive and effective.
Online Course on Water Policy Analysis: A Systems Approach
- Start date 2025
Deadline approaching
Learn to use a systems thinking approach to tackle complex problems and inform policy processes, especially in the environmental and water sectors.
Online Course on Water and Environmental Law and Policy
- Start date 2025(Cancelled)
This course focuses on how water and environmental resources can be managed in a specific context using the disciplines of law, politics and policy making. The goal is to introduce the student to the complexities of the relationship between water, environmental and economic issues; the relationship between law, politics and policy making at local, national, regional and international level.
Online Course on Water and Sanitation in Urban Humanitarian Context
- Start date 2025
Deadline approaching
This course provides an overview of urban humanitarian context, its complexities; discusses systemic approach to water and sanitation and develop a water and sanitation plan/project for long-term response.
Online Course on Governance in Humanitarian Contexts
- Start date 2025
The course aims to critically analyse the humanitarian architecture, the different humanitarian contexts, and decision-making for WASH through a multi-level governance approach.
Online Course on Behaviour Change and Advocacy
- Start date 2025
This course highlights the significance of behaviour change across the sanitation value chain. You are exposed to behaviour theory and advocacy methods from prominent sanitation professionals who have designed and implemented impactful interventions in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
Online Course on Advanced Water Transport and Distribution
- Start date 2025
This course focuses on state-of-the-art knowledge and cutting edge tools, enabling a vision of the water supply challenge much beyond standard engineering practices, a prerequisite when coping with global challenges related with water supply.
Online Course on Biological Wastewater Treatment: Principles, Modelling and Design
- Start date 2025
This course seeks to address the quantity, complexity and diversity of the developments in the wastewater treatment profession, particularly in developing countries where access is not readily available to advanced level courses in wastewater treatment.
Online Course on Building Resilient Systems in Fragile Contexts
- Start date 2025
In this course, participants will assess, design and implement resilience-based approaches to address uncertainty and risk in WASH systems, particularly in fragile contexts. Focused on the humanitarian-development nexus approaches aimed at sustainability, perseverance and quick recovery of WASH systems are covered.
Online Course on Solid Waste Management
- Start date 2025
The aim of this course is to enlighten the state of the art in technology, organizational and legislative developments and practices and financial burdens and benefits of handling solid wastes.
Online Course on Project Management for Sanitation
- Start date 2025
Following this course enables you to understand and apply standard tools and approaches for results based project management to develop a sound sanitation proposal and project implementation plan.