 Okay, I think this works better. Good afternoon. Very welcome. My name is Eddie Morse. I'm since 1st of July Rector at the Institute's IT Delft. And I would really like to welcome the Excellencies here. I would like to welcome the family. I think we have a very nice representation here of the different students. It's also of the colleagues from IT as well as the invited guest. But besides that I would also very much like to welcome all the students and other purists around the world who are also performing this event live through the internet. So welcome to you all. And for me this is the first time that I have the honor to open the academic year of IT Delft. So for me it's also a very special occasion. And I'm happy to see so many known faces but even more happy to see so many unknown faces. And with that I would for most really like to welcome all the new students that are coming to IT Delft this year. So very welcome. And I hope that you are going to start with this day a very exciting year and a half to come. And I think also looking at the faces I've also seen the list of where you're coming from. I think we have a very very nice diversity and with diversity I mean from different countries where you're coming from. So you're bringing here us I think a treasure of different nationalities which different cultures with different behavior with different ideas. And I think with that you're going to enrich our institute further with this diversity and also with your ideas about how to look at things but also about solutions. We at IT Delft are very much looking forward to help you to discover what this diversity means and to see also how you can use that in your education and training but also in how you can use that to support from the mind. So I think that's an important site but on the other hand what we also try to do at IT Delft is we try to use this education and training that we're providing to further develop the world. Now important on the political agenda at the moment are the sustainable development goals. And I think with those sustainable development goals we are meaning that we would like to see how we can really implement the measures and the strategies that are needed to bring them a step further but also how can you monitor and follow if the goals are being achieved. And with that I think it's also good to start introducing one of the main lectures because you will have two today and the first lecture will be given by Rob van Tulder and Rob van Tulder is a professor of international business at Rotterdam School of Management from Erasmus University in Rotterdam and he's co-founder of the Department of Business Society Management which is a world leading department on the issues surrounding sustainability and sustainability I think is the connecting word both between what we do at IT Delft but also what Rob is going to talk about. But maybe to inform a little bit more on the background Rob is also at the moment an academic director of the Partnership Resource Center where they bring together leading NGOs, firms and governments in the study and management of cross sector partnerships for the social goods and again one of those social goods is working. He's also founder of SCOPE which is an expert center for Erasmus University in international business and sustainability developments and one of the things that they do at this institute is together with UNTAP that they list actually all the international and transnational corporations worldwide which is always posted and published in the world in investment reports and maybe that's another topic that later on during the receptions I think it's good to have a discussion with Rob van Tulder because what we also see is one of the challenges is how can we get the investments in such an order that we are also able to implement the measures and strategies that are important to achieve those sustainable development goals. Rob is also a teaching executive courses for measures and academics on international strategy management and of course he published a lot of papers and books but I just want to mention one because I thought that this is a very interesting one because at IT Delft we are also very much engaged with that and the title of that one is Solving Wicked Problems Through Partnerships and first of all I think water is one of the the wicked problems but what I like is this addition of partnerships and that means that actually you can't solve wicked problems by single use so you need these partnerships so I'm very much looking forward on what Rob has to say about that and the lecture of Rob for today that he will present is called May You Live in Interesting Times which I think is I'm not sure if it's a wish but if it's not then let me translate this into a wish and I wish that all the students of today will live say an 18 month period that will be so interesting that they will remember that throughout their lives and I hope that that's also the stepping stone towards a new future. So welcome again and I would like to invite Rob von Tilder for his keynote speech. Thank you very much for the introduction. The Erector, Academic Staff, the Mayor, Your Excellencies, External Guests, Friends of the Institute and of course in particular all those students who are called the inspiring students present today. Yes May You Live in Interesting Times. This is an English expression and it seems a blessing but actually is also known as the Chinese curse. It is actually always used ironically but the clear implication that uninteresting times of peace and tranquility are more life enhancing than interesting ones. Interesting times usually include disorder and conflict. At the beginning of the millennium the US military introduced an interesting acronym to further define the nature of these interesting times. They observe we are increasingly living in a so-called FUKA world. A world in which volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity is the new norm. A world of competing powers, unclear societal models, increasingly intertwined and facing sizable societal challenges. Note that the FUKA concept was introduced by the Americans one and a half decade before the Trump administration. A FUKA world requires different mindsets from everyone involved. Why does this imply, what does it imply for water? We can take two positions, one in which we stress the negative change and one in which we focus on positive change. So a negative frame. Well nearly a billion people worldwide lack clean drinking water. Unsafe water is the leading cause of sickness and death. Half of the world's population of the world's hospital beds are filled with people suffering from water related illnesses. Farmers fight for water in order to water their crops. In 2015 2.4 billion people did not have access to adequate sanitation facilities. We have an abundance of water in the form of tsunamis while at the same time a lack of water as the result of droughts and mismanagement. Water becomes bottled as a private good which makes it a potential public good and a universal need into a commodity problem which people can be excluded also. Critics talk about manufacturer demand and confront individual consumers in particularly western countries with the irrationality of some of their choices. For instance with the fact that tap water is up to 500 times cheaper than bottled water. Water becomes a political or a contested good. Water wars are fought between local communities and companies. Conflicts are over water usage developed between upstream and downstream countries. But there are also positive friends. In 2015 for instance 2.4 billion people globally used an improved sanitation facility which was a major advance in comparison to the past. Water is what we also call a married good. These are goods or services whose consumption confer benefits on society that are greater than those for individuals. Water has many so-called positive externalities. It makes people better and more productive. For every one dollar invested in water and sanitation the United Nations Development Program estimated the return of up to eight dollars. Getting clean water to rural villages is the most effective strategy to help the poor. Water is an investment opportunity. As a club good, the club good is the swimming pool. I heard the IHA wanted to make a swimming pool but not yet so but invest in it because it's fun and then water becomes really a positive externality. As a club good, as a married good, as a source of hygiene and sanitation but also as a sort of innovation and a public good. As a source of life of course, water has many identities but that makes it also typically a full god phenomenon. Everly contested issues are also known as wicked problems. The vector also referred to that. And a wicked problem in water also can be referred to as a tragedy of the commons problem. We know that we have to take either individual or collective action because we see the problem but we do not act upon it. This is also known as the bystander effect. Psychologically speaking, the bystander effect is also known as the choice paradox. When confronted with complex issues, we tend to get paralyzed rather than take action. The rabbit on the road. Maybe you can see that. When realizing that he's crossing a road with heavy traffic, rather than running away, the rabbit freezes and probably gets killed. So negative frames and doomed scenarios only add to the paralysis. But in this complexity actually lies also the solution. Let me chew on the skin side a little bit more. There are simple, complex and wicked problems. Wicked problems do not only resist solving, they even resist defining. Technical and organizational approaches are always part of the approach but the real approach lies in the societal road. Water is a wicked problem because it is public, it is private, it is a social good and it is not at the same time very often. So no one size fits all solutions and many of the solutions lie beyond the realm of public, private or social provision of water. So what to do? Don't deny complexity that is one of the topics. Find positive approaches and get directly involved stakeholders that is the system into the room. Wicked problems cannot be solved. This is one of the most frustrating conclusions I had as a scientist because I wanted to make a sort of quantitative analysis and then solve it and then everybody just had to quote me and then it's okay. But they cannot be solved but they can be approached. Wicked problems require an open and inquisitive mindset, a positive and action oriented frame, no ideologies, no fixed road maps or technical solutions only. So you might ask if you still follow my story is that possible? Yes, I believe so. We are living indeed in interesting times. And to the sustainable development goals. They were issued in September 2015 with a positive frame to address the systemic problems of the world. And they were based on three years of multi-stakeholder involvement in which companies, civil society representatives, government, knowledge institute set up an agenda of action. The STGs signal a paradigm breach with the past, for instance, compared to the millennium development goals in which only governments were held responsible for the world's most complex problems. And also I would add they are based on a much better understanding that positive frames, mind you, not nightly frames, but clear goals are more energizing than negative frames and doom scenarios. So the STGs are actually based on the latest psychological insights for which Richard Thorne, you can see his picture here, just this week or last week received a Nobel Peace Prize for economics, behavioral economics. We might not have a fixed solution but we can distinguish between better or worse approaches. Well, 17 goals with 169 sub targets. I would say complexity in the room. Water thereby as a wicked problem can also be considered a wicked opportunity. It is related to sanitation and with clear ambitions. As you can see, 6.1 universal and equitable access to safe and affordable drinking water for all. Nobody left behind. But also, for instance, the reference under 6.5 to management issues like water resources management. And this is the best place, of course, to study those issues. But they're also related to other issues, either as input, as consequence or as condition. Again, in the complexity lies the solution. Water is the next issue. It can bring together people, companies and governments in addressing related issues as well. Water, therefore, is highly context dependent, knows one size fits all. This is also acknowledged by this institute that you are studying now or have studied. I read in one of the brochures of the institute that water cannot be seen in isolation and it is often a pre-condition for other goals. Therefore, together with the partners of IEJ, also they contribute and they quoted also to other STGs. And you quote a number here in the first year like Zero Hunger, STG2, Gender Equality, STG5, Affordable and Clean Energy, number 7, Sustainable Citizens and Communities, 11 and a number of others. So I study the brochure very well and I have an advice. I would advise you to also look beyond those and connect with other STGs, in particular poverty and income inequality, because I think actors to clean and save water is strongly related to unequal income and the distribution of income. And of course, it is linked to one other topic. Maybe you've seen, if you study this, it's very easy. It should be linked to quality education. But this might seem obvious, but I think it's worth mentioning, nevertheless. Finally, the United Nations also formulated five basic principles that feed into all the STGs. This is something that has been not generally acknowledged. And there are four, for instance, for peace, people, planet, prosperity and peace. And this already provides a much better basis for understanding, but also for checking progress in all these goals. Now, maybe you considered, I could quote, professional bias, but I'm happy to see also that the central position of these is fifth in our partner. It is condition, but it's perhaps also a goal in itself. So if you have a look at this, I suppose you understand this, complexity, we are full circle back to the adequate approach to the problems in the FUKA world. You together, and I would say then, water is not a public or a private or a social good. Our proposal for today is water is a partnering good. Combine public and private and get all the stakeholders in the room. Otherwise, the goals will never be reached. This especially applies to water. In order to manage the many potential conflicts around the issue, the UN, for instance, concludes that the issue of water and sanitation cannot be solved by any of the societal actors alone. They state, and I quote, effective water and sanitation management also depends on the participation of all the stakeholders, global as well as local. So my final advice, see water as a partnering good more than anything else. Go beyond public, private or social. And luckily, as you can see in the slide, this is acknowledged throughout the world. With water operated partnerships, of course, this institutes the PPP facilities in the Netherlands, a variety of partnerships, hundreds of them we can count. So finally, of course, what does it mean? Water as a partner, as a partnering good. It requires collaboration between states, governments, local, international, national markets, first multinationals, but also local companies and value chains and communities, all of NGOs. The second point, go slow and get far, but do it together. Or put it differently, if you want to go fast, go alone. But if you want to come far, go together. Working together is not a luxury, as many people would say, but it's a necessity. There's no alternative. We also call it the Tina principle, initiated by Shell, by the way, at a certain moment, they were heavily attacked on their environmental policies. There is no alternative. But that requires, say, well, we should work together, so we should trust each other. So one of the big issues next to a whole list of issues that we can address is the trust issue. And I can tell you this, if you have different interests, why would you trust your partners? Why would you trust yourself that you are consistent in your own policies? So the issue is not, it's about trust, but actually we have to return it. We have to say you don't partner because you trust each other, but you trust each other because you're a partner. I hope this is deep enough there. This requires, of course, learning about complex problems, a safe space to discuss and research. I think this would be the safe space. So, concluding, we are living in interesting time periods, so I wish you lots of insightful collaboration. Good luck. Thank you very much, Rob, for this very interesting speech of you and also for introducing us into the fukar world. The good news, of course, is that this institute definitely will not educate its students to become bystanders, and definitely will not let them reside in the treasured commons, but will offer you a path of partnerships. So thank you for that, for sharing with us your insights on this day. Then, it's my pleasure also to have another energizing part of this program, because I would like to invite to the stage the African Partnership Drum Band, and that means I would like to have a talk with Michael, John, and Salom. Are they coming? Okay, yeah, give them a round of applause. From Ghana, Charles from Jamaica, Jeffrey from Kenya, and accompanied by Isaac from Ghana again, and Zad Dele from Swaziland. Give them a big applause so that we can hear them. I consider that we're opening our classes with an exercise like this that we just showed. A very energizing moment, I think, for better results and greater impact. Then it is also my honor now to invite to the stage the President of the Student Association Awards, Mr. Juma Mdeke. Are you around? I'm expecting you. Oh, Mdeke, from the United Republic of Tanzania. I'm serving as the Student Association Board. I'm here having a small speech, welcome speech, for the new MSP students. Here you go. Your Excellencies, Rector, Professors, Distinguished Guests, IHEDA staff, fellow MSP students, participants, ladies and gentlemen. I am extremely honored and privileged for getting this opportunity to welcome you all who are here in that first in the auditorium this afternoon, and especially the new MSP students for the 2017-2019 acclaim here to our Christian's very important Institute, IHEDA. You are welcome. On behalf of staff, I'd like to welcome all of you to IHEDA Place where water professionals meet. This gives us an opportunity with social life to interact with one another from different continents in the countries with great cultural diversity. We have new students from about 40 different countries, and the number is more than 100 students, so you can see the diverse culture we have. IHEDA is a purely multicultural environment. There is a Swahili proverb to say that, by definition, water is life. So water connects us all here. I here congratulate you new students for successfully getting a seat in the reputed and Christian's water institute in the world. This is truly the first step towards following your dreams and achieving your goals as water professionals. And since for the next 18 months, you are going to be part of the Institute. I heartily wish that you invite the best knowledge and experience from here. Since I have known IHEDA, it gives me immense pleasure to inform you that the lecturers have been impacting quality education since inception. The development of a quality education system laden lies on the committed members of the Institute, quality infrastructure, supportive administrative staff, large pool of learning resources, and last but not least, hardworking and brilliant students. You will be glad to hear that IHED primary focuses on making students good and successful water professionals through strategic teaching of both theoretical and practical aspects during the course of education. I am highly encouraged to share that many of the graduate students who have graduated from IHED are now occupying higher position in several remote organizations all over the world. A good example will be seen soon, Dr. Satieh Murwanto from Indonesia who will address us in this audience soon this afternoon. They have succeeded in many respects and I am very certain that all of us, current students, as well as you who are new students, will also reach the same peak of the success and even higher. Apart from educational betterment, there are opportunities to participate in extracurricular activities here in IHEDA. It's like sports games and cultural activities and events like African nights, Euro-American nights, Asian nights, where you showcase your cultures, you share your cultures, you show us what you have from your back home. Remember that as we said, we have more than 40 countries this year. Within years, we are more than 61 countries. Assume one country is one culture. How many countries we have? The assumptions might not be good, but assume one country is one culture. So we have more than 40 cultures plus that 61 so we can see how diverse IHED is. Starting from November, next two weeks to come, IHED usually reserve courts for volleyball, basketball, and football. So for the sports ladies and sportsmen, you are highly welcome to participate on sports, as we believe that most of the sports become, it's because it's physical activities and also keeps you fit and make you a mentor balance. I'm certain that you will find these 18 months at IHEDA, the most inspiring times of your life. I hereby wish you all a very happy and academically fulfilling journey ahead and outstanding stay in IHEDA and the Netherlands in general. Again, I wish you all success, successful rewarding time here at IHEDA. Karibuni Sana, in English, you are warm and welcome. Thank you very much. Thank you Juma for your warm welcome words and also your the lining of the diversity agenda. I would like to invite now Maria Laura to the stage with our alumni officer because she will start the introduction towards the Alumni Awards ceremony. Thank you very much. Distinguished guests, alumni, participants, new students, and colleagues. I would like to congratulate all new students on the commencement of their studies at IHEDA. But today we celebrate also the Alumni Day because many professionals, our alumni, also started their studies at IHEDA one day in October, like you. IHEDA has more than 15,000 alumni worldwide and they've formed the biggest water professional network in the world. They are our best ambassadors and we are very proud of them. In this ceremony, we have the pleasure of awarding one of our exceptional alumnus with the 5th IHEDALF Alumni Awards. The award is given annually to an alumna or an alumnus who has had an illustrious career and has been a role model for other water professionals. 28 alumni nominations were received this year and they should remember we're very impressed with the overall quality of their work and proposals. Three made up a very strong show list and they are from Sri Lanka, Danish Bunatileke, who started in 2005. From Mozambique, Professor Dr. Álvaro Carmovas, who started in 1981. And from 1997, Ms. Wurri Ramana from Sri Lanka. Congratulations to all of them and I would like a little applause. But now the moment has arrived and I would like to invite to the podium our rector, Professor Eddie Morse, to announce the winner of the IHEDALF Alumni Award 2017. Thank you, Maria. And I think the real secret has been spoiled a little bit. But still, I think it's something worthwhile to stand still for. And I have the honor to say something and a couple of words actually about that. But before I do that, I think I would like again actually to welcome all of you. But in this case, the award winner is Dr. Ari Sidianti Morwanto from Indonesia. But before I hand you the award, I want to say a few words if you don't mind. And then later on, we would like to hear also something from your side. But I think we prepared this award winning and I think what was very nice is that Dr. Morwanti didn't come alone. But I would like to also welcome his wife. I would like to welcome his family members. And I would also like to welcome very much the delegation from Indonesia that he brought with him. And so I think it's nice that such a big community can celebrate a prize like this. So very welcome. And then Dr. Ari Morwanto is at the moment director general of highway engineering at the ministry of public works and housing Indonesia. And he's the former director of water resources management. He completed first hydraulic engineering here. And at that time it was still an 11-month course. We had a discussion yesterday. I think there is still a wish to actually have this 11-month course returned here. We'll talk about that later. But that was not enough. So Dr. Morwanti followed that up by doing his MSc degree here. And that MSc degree was actually in what we call at the moment hardware informatics. I think Professor Dimitri sitting over here who is now leading this topic. But I think that was say the ground for him to have a very ambitious career and just to say a few words about that. And he has been working as a civil servant at the ministry of public works and housing since 1986 and has held several positions at the ministry. He has a consistent proofing track record of professionalist responsibilities integrity and commitment to the institution where he's working. His commitment to improve the living conditions in his country his academic performance and professional leadership in Indonesia are very highly respected. Dr. Morwanti has accomplished important projects in Indonesia. And I just name a few of them. It's not a full list. One is he included an integrated research program which covered technical and social aspects related to development of urban areas in Indonesia. Some examples are in Bangor area, Simarunga and other cities. He collaborated on the writing of guidelines on urban polvo development in Indonesia, one of his specialties. The impact of land subsidence in sea level rise mean that Poles are one of the options to be considered to solve the flooding problem in coastal cities. These guidelines are used by practitioners in Indonesia and also today. And I will come back to that later on as well. His latest contribution is the design of traffic management system along the highway on Northern Indelpa where as a result there were zero accidents during the last Eid holiday in comparison with so many victims in previous years. And I must say that one of the worries for me was to learn that he was moving to another ministry and especially the Ministry of Transportation. But then yesterday we had a sort of pre-talk a little bit and what I also learned is that I think one of the very nice things that the term is implementing at the moment is actually the first multi-purpose dike in Indonesia. And that dike is I think it will come along one word to visit of all of you to come to Indonesia to look at it. But also the interesting part is there that what he's doing is from his position as the Ministry of Traffic he is working at a solution for the traffic but he's also looking at sea level rise and how this dike can be used to protect the area for sea level rise. So he's trying to solve two problems and as if that's not enough and the other part that comes into there is that behind this dike there will also be a poll the area which then can be used both to prevent floods for the city but also enlarges actually the capacity to have food production in there. So I think it's a very nice example where not only the present position that he's in but also his knowledge from the other positions especially at the Ministry of Water Resources is being brought together to come up to those solutions. Though I think you need to discussion with Rob later on if it's really a wicked problem but I do think this one approaches it very much and I do think we're also working for solutions so then it falls off the list of being a wicked problem but then it becomes a complex problem which is I think an interesting one to be solved as well so congratulations. Then if that was not enough I think what's also interesting is that under his leadership many staff members from the Ministry of Public Works and Housing were encouraged to study at IHE Delft and we really appreciate that. So as a result IHE Delft has many successful alumni who are professionals and professional leaders at the Ministry of Public Works and Housing. Indonesia is in fact the country with the highest number of IHE Delft alumni in the world and many of them are working at the Ministry of Public Works which I think is also nice to see that people that are trained here and I think there's also an invitation to the present students sitting here is going back to the professional reason where you're coming from and contributing actually to doing that and I fully wish that all of you will follow the footsteps of our present alumni winner and also your predecessors there. So clearly Dr. Moranti is an excellent ambassador of IHE Delft often leading the collaboration between IHE Delft and Ministry of Public Works and Housing in the field of research and capacity development on water and I hope that can be continued. So congratulations from IHE Delft on your remarkable achievements during your career and thank you for being such a low ambassador of the institutes and I do hope that we can continue and I do hope that you are going to make some future steps into this. So with that I would like to offer you a small gift. So this is the price. But he is convinced that balance in difficult solutions is sometimes there. I think it's a safer hand. But what I would also would like to say is that having somebody doing a career like this is something that you come to alone and for that I would really like to thank also your wife for allowing her to have you here but also to have you be aiming you to all all these steps. So I would like to hand over the flowers. So with that I would like to give the floor actually to Dr. Moranti for his his speech. Excellencies, Rector of IHE. I'm a Seder of the Republic of Indonesia all professional all new student of I think master's student of IHE distinguished guest ladies and gentlemen. It is a great honor for me as well as a big surprise for me to have this award. I never imagined before if I may back 29 years ago as professor Moranti. I joined a short course program with the help and with the support of the NUFIC scholarship. I choose the branch deep as far as I know. Just remember it is concerning about the computational experimental and computational on hydraulics. Once I finished I got an additional scholarship from Lamingha Foundation. With that scholarship I finished my master degree. I stay here only 17 months but it is a great time for me in shaping my career after that. It gives me confident knowledge and experiences and these experiences always inspired me until now. For example, I do agree with the lecture. We have a problem with the flood. We have a problem with the traffic jam too much and too dirty water but I'm confident to face it because I gain experiences here at IHE. If I may share my experiences to all my colleges, new ISE students. MSc degree is important but you may gain more than that. As the president mentioned here we can learn about culture because here we together have students for all over the world. Within 17 months I learned how to discuss and how to negotiate with several or various students with the difference culture and it makes me never afraid when we discuss with them until now. And we know and I could discuss and find an agreement as professor mentioned about that but partnership it is a great time a great time for me. For all of my achievement I have to say thank you very much for the ISE to all the professor and to all of my colleges here. I bring my family and my colleges from Indonesia if you don't mind please stand up because one also they learned yesterday they went to Del Paris a ferry from an institution that I work for six months there while I'm doing my MSc. It is a great institute and I want them also to learn and I also asked them to go to Rotterdam harbor because we will develop many new port in Indonesia because we have more than 17 000 islands big and small in Indonesia. Once again thank you very much I will never forget this moment thank you very much. So I think that here Dr. Muvanto I would like to really thank you for very nice and I think also very personal speech so thank you for your kind kind words here and what I would like to do is I would like to use this opportunity to officially declare an academic year as open so I hope that all the MSc students have a really good start and actually to celebrate that a little bit there are a couple of things that I would like to ask and one is that here in the room we have the number of investors from the different countries from the students or representatives of the MSc so what we would like to ask the students from the different countries so if you go out to the room here there are a number of tables with a small flags of your country there so if you find a table with a flag there please go there it's not only for the students it's also for the seniors plus the fellows plus the staff and please have a meeting with the ambassador or the representatives of the ambassadors. Also I know that there are a number of ambassadors and representatives of the MSc's who not yet have students here or who have had students here but there are students less at the moment I would like to invite them to one table where's the UN flag because I would like to have a short talk with them how we can change the situation so you're very welcome and then all the other people are here also of course not left alone but I would like to invite them to go downstairs and go to the restaurant area where there are all they've been waited for to join us in a reception over there I can promise you that I'll also bring all the ambassadors and the other people also downstairs so we'll join you shortly so please leave something to drink for us as well so with that I would like to thank you all and I hope to see you downstairs another day thank you okay it was a good deal so we'll enjoy it