Mission and Strategy
For more than a century, we have been working passionately to find answers to the burning question that drives our research: how can we keep our deltas, and coastal and river areas, safe, sustainable and habitable? Now and in the future. ‘Enabling Delta Life’ is what Deltares, as an independent research institute, stands for.
We describe how we go about this in a range of documents like the The Strategic Agenda 2026-2029: 'Value in practice. Resilient towards the future.', The Impact Report and in different specials.
Strategic Agenda 2026-2029
What course are we charting as an independent knowledge institute in the field of water and subsurface? Our Strategic Agenda 2026-2029: Value in practice. Resilient towards the future outlines how we will be using our high-quality knowledge to develop innovative and sustainable solutions worldwide in the coming years.
Our mission is Enabling Delta Life, a mission with an optimistic promise. We also feel that this is an urgent task. After all, the world is facing major challenges. It is therefore now more relevant than ever to use our knowledge and innovations to add value in practice. We will therefore focus our work even more, to achieve the greatest possible impact with scarce resources.
The rapidly changing world and pressing social challenges require a high degree of adaptability in order to be resilient in the future. This is essential for our safety, well-being and prosperity.
For almost a century, Deltares has played a crucial role in promoting water safety, water availability, a healthy subsurface and vital infrastructure. We investigate the effects of climate change on issues such as the resilience of critical infrastructure, salinisation and drought, and our advice offers prospects for action. After all, healthy water and soil systems and adaptive capacity are essential for the well-being and prosperity of our society, now and in the future. Our work therefore remains vitally important.
We do this with over 900 highly qualified employees of more than 60 nationalities, working in close collaboration with government, industry and other knowledge institutions.
This Strategic Agenda is our response to all the questions we have gathered from discussions with our partners: government bodies, knowledge institutions, the business community and our own employees. It is a response to social issues in the field of water and the subsurface, both in the Netherlands and around the world. We would like to discuss this further with you.
How the agenda was established
The Strategic Agenda is our answer to all the questions we have picked up from conversations with our partners: government authorities, knowledge institutes, NGOs and business. It is a response to challenges facing society in the area of water, the subsurface and the associated infrastructure. In the Netherlands and throughout the world. We are eager to discuss these challenges with you because it is only by working together that we can make an impact with our knowledge.
Previous Strategic Agenda
Strategic Agenda 2022-2025: Focus on the Future, Fast Forward Now
About the 2024 Impact Report
The Impact Report has replaced our Annual review.
We are tireless when it comes to making a contribution with our applied knowledge to making deltas, coastal and river areas appealing places to live. Now and in the future. In the Netherlands and throughout the world. In our impact report, we would like to take you on a journey through the world of water and the subsurface, and show you how we continuously develop knowledge and provide access to it. The impact report replaces the annual report.
