September 2019

Wrap up the Wetskills

Posted on September 7, 2019
in Blogs, Wetskills-South-Korea
by Inge Muhlig

Wetskills South Korea 2019 -  by Khawon Lee (Sangmyung University -    Can you remember the first day of Wetskills? It’s kind of awkward when we met at first at least for me. Maybe someone was nervous, others were exciting. [caption id="attachment_56235" align="alignnone" width="300"] First day[/caption]   We had tough weeks, but also, we had fun. Sometimes we had hard works, but looking backward, it was helpful to us. It was great that we worked first and hung out together on free time.     I tried to hang out as much as I can and teach some Korean things to others, but I’m not sure it worked. Hope it worked! Haha In Daegu, I think moments in Daegu were parties. Even if the purpose of visiting Daegu is for Wetskills final and KIWW, I tried to hang out with people as much as I can.   We ate Korean barbeque, pork belly, Korean traditional meal and gorgeous buffet.     At first, when I...

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Looking back over the last two weeks

Posted on September 7, 2019
in Blogs, Wetskills-South-Korea
by Inge Muhlig

Wetskills South Korea 2019 -  by Kyutae Kim (University of Twente) -    Short but so intense two weeks has been passed. Due to the hurricane in South Korea, my flight has been delayed. On the way to the Amsterdam in flight, I was looking all pictures we took during the 2 weeks.   I am a Korean but I am studying civil engineering in the Netherlands. I found out that a Wetskills program will be in S.Korea so I applied. We had first meeting at around KIST and we went on excursions to Shiwha lake tidal power station and Gyeongin Ara Waterway. It was awkward at first moment, but we quickly became close each other with the Dutch open mind.   While I am studying in the Netherlands, I always tried to get into the Dutch friends and culture, but I never imagined that Dutch friends got into Korean friends and Korean culture. But this Wetskills...

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Happy Tears and Wetskills

Posted on September 6, 2019
in Blogs, Wetskills-South-Korea
by Inge Muhlig

Wetskills South Korea 2019 -  by Berkay Umut Yesildagli (Korea Institute of Science and Technology)    Wetskills is a journey. A psychical test which requires you to wake up every day and work for hours on topics that you have no idea about with people you just met. They can be Dutch people, straight forward and continuing. You will have Korean people too in your team. They will go under the radar and suddenly bring up amazing information. Wetskills will be a mental journey as well. You will be getting tested by other people's perception, their ideas, hardships of teamwork. You will be annoyed so much sometimes that you won't notice other people will be annoyed by you as well.   But you will keep going. You will wake up every morning and you will find yourself in a passionate worry. You will be having fun every time you find something that will help your...

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It’s finals day!

Posted on September 6, 2019
in Blogs, Wetskills-South-Korea
by Inge Muhlig

Wetskills South Korea 2019 -  by Pleun Weijers (Waterschap Limburg) -    Time flies when thinking out-of-the-box! Today was the last day of our program, which we spent at the Korea International Water Week 2019 in Daegu to present the case studies we have been working on for the past two weeks. We had a very early start and a hasty breakfast, but we were all excited to pitch our solutions.   We arrived at the conference in the morning, where we had time for some badly needed coffee and a last round of practice (repetition is key to success, right Berkay?). Having displayed our posters, we sat down in the room where the Wetskills presentations were to take place.   After some words of welcome and a lovely surprise video about our adventures so far, it was finally up to us. In front of a big audience, we delivered our pitches and answered questions from the...

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Finals at AquaTech – and the winners are…

Posted on September 5, 2019
in Blogs, Wetskills Mexico 2019
by Kennard Burer

Wetskills Mexico 2019 - by Simone van Holst & Andrea Velasco Martinez This morning everyone woke up with excitement and maybe a little bit of nervousness because it was the day of the finals! In the morning all pitch presenters had time to practice and optimize the pitch to shine brightly on the Stage at AquaTech Mexico 2019. At 13.30 all groups were meeting at the entrance of AquaTech and everyone was dressed to impress. At 13.30 some groups practiced the pitch a last few times while the others walk around AquaTech to network with other water professionals. At 17.00 the moment we had all been waiting for started the pitch finals! By lottery the order of presentation was picked. The first group who had to give their presentation was DropWise. Arturo gave a clear pitch presentation about the technical and educational part of their water in schools project. Second up was...

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I can’t believe it’s already the last night!

Posted on September 5, 2019
in Blogs, Wetskills-South-Korea
by Inge Muhlig

Wetskills South Korea 2019 -  by Hyeonmin Lee (Seoul National University) -    In the morning, we attended to World Water Cities Forum. Before it starts, we watched sand-art performance. I think it’s 3rd time we all watched some kinds of performance. I don’t know that we Korean love performances that much. Next, we heard about the water problem each city has faced now (I don’t know the exact number of cities), and it was quite interesting that every city has different problem and different point of view.                 As I’m first pitcher, I went to entrance 2 and all first pitcher and back-up pitcher gathered there to practice. I practiced with GyuTae again and again. Even though I had practiced it more than 20 times, I made some mistakes. So, I talked to myself, “stay nervous”. Because as Inge and Roel always says, “feeling nervous is good thing”.   And I gave a pitch to Inge...

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First day of conference!

Posted on September 4, 2019
in Blogs, Wetskills-South-Korea
by Inge Muhlig

Wetskills South Korea 2019 -  by Eveline van Groesen (Water Authority Brabantse Delta) -      Last night was deadline night. So, when we arrived at our hostel in Daegu everbody quickly put their luggage in their rooms and opened their laptops. Some stressed, some busy, some relaxed. But by 21.00 o’clock [caption id="attachment_56099" align="alignright" width="300"] Girls night with Korean BBQ[/caption] it was done: every team submitted their poster and paper. Time to celebrate! And that is what we did! We had a nice BBQ with all the girls and went for a few drinks afterwards with the guys. A few drinks, became some more drinks and even more drinks. We celebrated our deadline night well...

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Ready to go KIWW

Posted on September 3, 2019
in Blogs, Wetskills-South-Korea
by Inge Muhlig

Wetskills South Korea 2019 -  by Seungyeon Lee (Hongik University) -   Today is the day to leave for Daegu to attend the KIWW. We gathered at KIST in the morning to revise the posters and papers for the last time. Once again, I revised the poster, read the paper and added the contents. After that, we went to Seoul Station to go to Daegu. It was already 6 p.m. in Daegu, which arrived by train for 4 hours. We immediately moved to the hostel to sort out our luggage and finally reviewed our posters and papers.     Also, don't release the tension until it's over. When we submitted the poster, we resized the layers with 15 minutes left to resize because it didn't fit. Helen and I have succeeded in correcting and submitting it, holding our minds together in order to be quick and accurate!     Finally, in recent weeks, everything we care about has...

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SOMI welcomes Wetskills in South Korea

Posted on September 3, 2019
in News
by JohanOost

SOMI Wetskills Ambassador welcomes program & participants in South Korea. She stimulates the NextGeneration to come up with new #water solutions together! Last year SOMI was inaugurated as Ambassador for the Wetskills programme in Leeuwarden, September. SOMI is a popular K-pop Artist in Korea and Asia, read more about her: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeon_So-mi. Being a Wetskills Ambassador, she shares the values of Wetskills where young talents from various countries come together, work together for new solutions in water and be integrated and heard in the water-climate-sustainability sector.   The teams of This Wetskills edition will pitch their innovative solutions at the Korea International Water Week in Daegu. Join us on Friday 6 September 2019 at 10.00-11.15! More information and follow our experiences of Wetskills-South Korea 2019 in our daily blogs: www.wetskills.com.   #sustainability #ClimateChange #Resilience Thanks to Wetskills-South Korea 2019 partners: Korea Institute of Science and Technology Hongik University Embassy of the Netherlands in Korea H2Oost Kwf Waterforum K-academy WaterEdu...

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Trip to Teotihuacan – an authentic Mexican experience

Posted on September 2, 2019
in Blogs, Wetskills Mexico 2019
by Kennard Burer

Wetskills Mexico 2019 - by Beatriz Adriana Rojas González (Universidad Panamericana) - Early this morning, at the Universidad Panamericana there was a bus waiting for us, which would take us to a new adventure. The trip to Teotihuacan was peaceful, when we arrived, we can immediately saw the Ciudadela with these huge constructions that teotihuacanos did. After we met Daniel, our guide, we embarked on our trip to the pyramids of the Sun and the Moon. Teotihuacan means house of the gods, teotihuacanos were polytheists, which means they have a lot of gods, each one used to have an altar where they offered a sacrifice. The main gods in Teotihuacan were Quetzalcoatl, god of the Sun, which mean feathered serpent and Tlaloc, god of the rain, which means nectar of the ground. The more we walked, the more we knew about this civilization, their way of life, how can they construct enormous pyramids, how...

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