Kay Schmidt (2020-2021)

The Department of Water Management is proud to announce the winner of the Cees Boeter Award for the best BSc thesis written in the academic years 2019-2020 and 2020-2021, because last year the award was not granted because of COVID-19. Cees Boeter is retired many years ago, served our laboratories for about 40 years and was always interested in the work of our students. 

For each year, we have been able to select three nominees from a highly competitive group of young researchers and designers with a huge variety of topics.

For the year 2020-2021, the selected nominees were:

• Celine Bloem - Making Waves
• Ermanno Giudici - Land management strategies for climate resilient avocado production in the Ligua watershed, Chile
• Kay Schmidt – Water Robust Sportpark

All nominees have shown that our BSc students are able to tackle important problems, deal with complicated data sets, and analyse complex outcomes. But, as always, there can be only one winner per year. However, because of the high quality of the theses of the nominees, we also have prizes for the 2nd/3rd positions. 

For the year 2020-2021 the winner of the Cees Boeter award is the student who developed a concept for water efficient use of a hockeyclub in Nieuwegein, using the complete design cycle: Kay Schmidt.