Innovating Hydro-Environment Engineering for a Sustainable FutureArctic Waters and Beyond:

We are delighted to welcome you to the 9th IAHR Europe Congress, Arctic Waters and Beyond: Innovating Hydro-Environment Engineering for a Sustainable Future in Luleå, Sweden, 9-12 of June 2026. This gathering brings together leading minds, researchers, and professionals dedicated to advancing hydro-environment engineering and exploring sustainable solutions for our planet's most critical water challenges.

Submission Guidelines

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:

• Papers instructions are presented on the webpage, europe2026.iahr.org
• Posters instructions are presented on the webpage, europe2026.iahr.org

List of Topics

• Climate change adaption and mitigation
  • Dam safety
  • Urban water systems including blue-green systems and spounge city concepts
  • Advanced modelling approaches
  • Green transition in hydro-environment engineering
  • Urban snow management and cold region hydraulics  
  • Hydroenvironment  
  • Snow hydrology and impacts on reservoirs
  • Ice research and engineering   
• Water for the energy transition, food security and nature
  • Efficient water use and water reuse
  • Nature-based solutions for stormwater, greywater and wastewater
  • Emerging pollutants
  • Wastewater transport and treatment systems
  • Enabling transition to the future urban water system
  • Legislation
  • Social acceptance
  • Financial and economic sustainability
  • Interdisciplinary approaches
  • Food-water-energy nexus
  • Ecological flows​
  • Biodiversity and fish migration
  • Restoration
  • Surface and groundwater hydraulics and hydrology
  • River morphodynamics and sediment transport
  • Reservoir sedimentation and sustainable sediment management
  • Aquifer recharge and groundwater abstraction
  • Dams hydraulic design and case studies
• Improving resilience agaiinst water hazards and disasters
  • Decentralization for increased resilience
  • Maintenance and asset management
  • Preparedness of water and power systems
  • Estuarine and coastal dynamics
  • Coastal monitoring
  • Protection, management and restoration of coastal systems
  • Climate-resilient estuaries and coasts
  • Ports and waterways design, Marine renewable energy
  • Hydraulic design of bridges and protection measures
  • Bridge scour and local scour assessment under extreme flows
  • Sediment transport and river morphodynamics affecting bridge stability
  • Flood risk management and multi-hazard interactions
• Digital transformation
  • Computational methods in fluid dynamics hydroenvironmental problems, sediment dynamics & fluid-structure interactions
  • Digital twins and cyber-physical systems  – Simulation and hybrid forecasting
  • Hydroinformatics
  • Data science, machine learning and data analytics
  • Big data instrumentation, experimental facilities and field experiments
  • Emerging hydraulic measurement technologies and analysis methods
  • Modelling and measurements in urban water systems
  • Turbomachinery, turbines and pumps
  • Design optimization
  • Computational and experimental techniques
  • Cavitation and multiphase flow 
  • Real-time monitoring and early-warning systems for bridge scour

Committees

Program Committee

• Is presented on the webpage, europe2026.iahr.org

Organizing committee

• Is presented on the webpage, europe2026.iahr.org

Venue

The conference will be held in Luleå, Sweden at the House of Culture

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to iahr2026@ltu.se