Knowledge transfer

Openness and communication are characteristic for our relations with our customers, partners and the general public. With the active transfer of our knowledge we encourage an understanding for the opportunities and the constraints of responsible water management and can thus support decisions and their realisation.

Speaker and audience at a BfG-symposium

By communicating with our customers and partners we are constantly learning. This helps us to improve our topics, services, and activities continuously to meet the specific needs of our target groups..

Illustration of: Exchanging knowledge as a motor of constant improvement

Exchanging knowledge is a motor of constant improvement

For communicating knowledge we use a variety of media and publications.

Information systems
In this section you find information and facts about watercourses, coastal waters, and canals, such as hydrographic and other hydrological data.

Events
This year we will again be staging a range of interesting events on various projects and topics.

Trade publication
We publish our own specialist journal: Hydrologie und Wasserbewirtschaftung (Hydrology and Water Resources Management).

Publications
Be it a specialist book, summary or report, we document major aspects of our work in our publications.

Central Library of Hydrology
Central Library of Hydrology (Gewässerkundliche Zentralbibliothek)
In our specialist library we have over 85,000 publications that can be borrowed from or consulted at the library.