This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 642224
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The Congress was focused on the main topic “Environment, Resources, Energy: the challenges of Water Engineering in a changing world”. Seven subjects were treated: (i) fluid mechanics; (ii) marine and coastal environment; (iii) criteria, methods and models for the analysis of hydrologic processes and water management; (iv) management and protection of water bodies and ecosystems; (v) evaluation and mitigation of hydrologic and hydraulic risk; (vi) water-society dynamics: sustainable development and land management; (vii) monitoring, open-data and free software.