Event Blogs

Wetskills Hungary 2019 – by Balázs Day of final preparation. This day, all 3 groups still had some time to finish their cases....

Wetskills Kerala 2019 – by Peter Hopman –   The Sunday in Calicut was a family day, since we are a Wetskills family ...

Wetskills Kerala 2019 – by Zoorathul Anfal –   Today we started at 9am as the second day of team work which is a rea...

Wetskills Kerala 2019 – by Arshad Anwar – The 6th day of Wetskills started with a lot of work. The teams were all picking...

Wetskills Hungary 2019 – by Linda Maseti Alarm bells rang at 05:30. We rised but I’m not so sure if I can say I shined. It wa...

Wetskills Kerala 2019 – by Maarten de Vries –   The fifth day of Wetskills Kerala started like a typical day at scho...

Wetskills Kerala 2019 – by Denny J Dilip –   It’s the third day of the Wetskills programme. The teams have bee...

Wetskills Hungary 2019 – by Ramón Kreka The day of the Brain Hurricane has just come. We met early in the morning in front of ...

Wetskills Kerala 2019 – by Zacharaia Joseph –   Day 2 was assigned for excursion and site visits to flood and landsl...

Wetskills Hungary 2019 – by Evelin Németh After a really eventful weekend we was going to Csepel Island where located the Wast...

Wetskills Hungary 2019 – by Bogi – Today we visited the Budapest Central Wastewater Treatment Plant in Csepel Island with...

Wetskills Kerala 2019 – by Elsa Anna Simon –   I’m an Urban Planner with Architecture background, currently workin...

Wetskills Hungary 2019 – by Van Dao Have you ever fallen in love with a city at first sight? If you haven’t, go to Budape...

Wetskills Hungary 2019 – By Berend – The Wicked Wetskills Weblog: 5 october afternoon And crazy it was! We split up in th...

Wetskills South Korea 2019 –  by Khawon Lee (Sangmyung University –    Can you remember the first day of Wetskills...

Wetskills South Korea 2019 –  by Kyutae Kim (University of Twente) –    Short but so intense two weeks has been pa...

Wetskills South Korea 2019 –  by Roel Hunting (Waterschap Rijn en IJssel) –    If you asked me what I knew about S...

Wetskills South Korea 2019 –  by Berkay Umut Yesildagli (Korea Institute of Science and Technology)    Wetskills is a jo...

Wetskills South Korea 2019 –  by Pleun Weijers (Waterschap Limburg) –    Time flies when thinking out-of-the-box! ...

Wetskills Mexico 2019 – by Simone van Holst & Andrea Velasco Martinez This morning everyone woke up with excitement and may...

Wetskills South Korea 2019 –  by Hyeonmin Lee (Seoul National University) –    In the morning, we attended to Worl...

Wetskills South Korea 2019 –  by Eveline van Groesen (Water Authority Brabantse Delta) –      Last night was ...

Wetskills South Korea 2019 –  by Seungyeon Lee (Hongik University) –   Today is the day to leave for Daegu to atten...

Wetskills Mexico 2019 – by Beatriz Adriana Rojas González (Universidad Panamericana) – Early this morning, at the Univer...

Wetskills South Korea 2019 –  by Muhammad Yacub (Kumoh National Institute of Technology)-   It was the day of deadline We...

Wetskills South Korea 2019 –  by Charlotte Casey- Haden (Hoogheemraadschap Hollands Noorderkwartier)    Sunday started l...

Wetskills Mexcio 2019 – by Ilse Meeuwsen (Radboud University) & Cesar Chávez Flores (Instituto Tecnologico de Arandas) ...

Wetskills South Korea 2019 –  by Youngin Kim (Hongik University)    Today is weekend, but everyone worked together. We m...

Wetskills Mexico 2019 – by Regina Méndez Guerrero (Universidad Panamericana) and Alejandra López Vázquez del Mercado (Univer...

Wetskills South Korea 2019 – by Jinwoo Kim (Kyungpook National University) –    Today, we started with a poster and...

Wetskills Mexico 2019 – by Leonardo Bueno Guerrero (Universidad de Guadalajara) & Brenda Palomares (UNAM) – Things ha...

Wetskills South Korea 2019 –  by Amber van der Meijs (Waterschap Brabantse Delta)    What started as a dry and sunny mor...

Wetskills South Korea 2019 –  by Sandeep Busakala (Yeungnam University) –    I tend to wake up early today, after ...

Wetskills South Korea 2019 –  by Hyojeong Lee (Hongik University) –   There was a team announcement today. I wonder...

Wetskills Mexico 2019 – by Lisa Kappetijn (psychology and international politics) and Sofía Casco (innovation and design eng.)...

Wetskills South Korea 2019 –  by Qayyum Adil (Seoul National University) Today, I woke up with a thought in my mind that who ...

Wetskills Mexico 2019 – by Arturo Zavala Guzmán (UNAM) and Quirine van der Meer (WDOD) –   Today was our first day ...

Wetskills South Korea 2019 –  by Wenne van der Horst (Utrecht University)  Today was the first official day of the Wetskills ...

Wetskills South Korea 2019 –  by Sanne de Smet (Delft University of Technology) –  Well I thought that writing a blog w...

Wetskills South Korea 2019 –  by Dami Kim (Hongik University) –  First of all, I thought that this Wetskills program wo...

Tomorrow, 26th of August, Wetskills South Korea 2019 will start! We (Floor and Inge) are finalizing the preparations! Looking forward...

by Tamanna Akter   So far, Sirajganj has never failed to amaze team Wetskills. The hide and seek between sun and rain helped us ...

By Fairooz Tasnim Tori   After a long tiring journey at previous day, Sirajganj welcome us with banquet of green and blue sereni...

by Meng Hsuan Tsai   During the last two days of Wetskills, many participants have worked on their own case studies and the pitc...

By Noshin Saiyara   From the idea of thinking independently together Wetskills introduced us to the wide range of diversity. May...

by Saskia van Otterloo   Our fieldtrip started with a chaotic train trip to Sirajganj from Dhaka, on the afternoon of the 4th of...

By Zahrun Zannat   Water and peoples, when you put them together amazing things start to happen. And with the welcoming rain it ...

  by Nazeat Ameen Iqra   We all woke up this morning thinking we had lots to do today. Yesterday we submitted our process a...

By M. Rasheduzzaman (Rafi)   “Where is it? Is it above the clouds or fainted over by seeing the beauty of this city? From whic...

By A.K. Azad   BrainHurricane event is a totally new approach to me. But it’s very interesting. At first, I had no interest in...

By Tanvir Arafat   Nature tried to harmonize with the nomenclature as Heavens were open to welcome Wetskills Bangladesh.   ...

Last week Wetskills wrapped up its fourth event in Romania at the new Flood Proof Romania testing facility. As one of the initiators ...

June, 07, 2019, Wetskills Romania 2019 by Virginia-Mălina Voicu The day started at Faculty of Hydrotehnics, UTCB. Last days we were ...

Hi! This is my blog for 6june by Eddy Secu. “The BrainHurricane Day was a productive day where we linked the first ideas about ...

June 5th, 2019 Wetskills Romania 2019 by Maria Nava Ocampo The day started by getting all ready to have a great typical Romanian brea...

4th June 2019 by Vlad Pestritu The day started by having breakfast at New Old Village Pub(BIRT). After that, we went at Prim Pass Cab...

3 June by Sandra Malagon and Alexandra Turturica After a well-deserved rest from the trip we started our day by visiting the Dimitrie...

June 2nd, 2019 Wetskills Romania 2019 by Peter Overvest I was hoping this day to get a lot of sleep, I was expecting that idea would ...

Muscat, Oman – 27 March 2019 – Wetskills Water Challenge – Reflection By Niel de Jong (Water Authority Hollands N...

Muscat, Oman – 25 March 2019 – Wetskills Water Challenge Day 10 By Luisa Javier (King Abdullah University of Science a...

Muscat, Oman – 24 March 2019 – Wetskills Water Challenge Day 9 By Atheer Al Kabsi (King Abdullah University of Scienc...

The 2nd Wetskills in Oman took place from 15 to 25 March 2019. 24 local and international young professionals and students from the w...

Muscat, Oman – 21 March 2019 – Wetskills Water Challenge Day 6 By Maryam Al Balushi (Petroleum Development Oman)  ...

Muscat, Oman – 20 March 2019 – Wetskills Water Challenge Day 5 By Rawabi Al Hajri (A’Sharqiyah University)  ...

Muscat, Oman – 19 March 2019 – Wetskills Water Challenge Day 4 By Areej Al Ghaithi (Petroleum Development Oman)   I...

Muscat, Oman – 19 March 2019 – Wetskills Water Challenge Day 4 By Balqees Al Shaaibi (A’Sharqiyah University) &n...

Muscat, Oman – 19 March 2019 – Wetskills Water Challenge Day 4 By Marwa Abdullah Al Mahdouri (Haya Water)   The n...

Muscat, Oman – 18 March 2019 – Wetskills Water Challenge Day 3 By Bart van der Ven (Waterschapsbedrijf Limburg & Nat...

Muscat, Oman – 17 March 2019 – Wetskills Water Challenge Day 2 By Ilsa Phillips (Wageningen University)   Yesterday...

Muscat, Oman – 16 March 2019 – Wetskills Water Challenge Day 1 By Bobby Leijgraaf (Water Authority Delfland) & Ajin ...

Muscat, Oman – 15 March 2019 – Wetskills Water Challenge Day 0 By Rachid Abraimi (Water Authority Hollandse Delta)  ...

Muscat, Oman – 15 March 2019 – Wetskills Water Challenge Day 0 By Kathiya Al-Aufi (Sultan Qaboos University) The Wetskil...

Wetskills Kyrgyzstan  – Day 9 25.10 Dear readers, hope it will be interesting to know how the Wetskills project going in Kyrgy...

Wetskills Kyrgyzstan – Day 8   Today was pretty much productive day, probably the most productive since the beginning of t...

Wetskills Kyrgyzstan Day 5 – 19.10. This morning we got up and went to the university. The firstly in the morning what we did w...

Wetskills Kyrgyzstan 18.10.2018 Day 4 Today we started again with a little game to learn each other’s names. Unfortunately, a lot o...

This morning we got up and got to the university. The first thing we did in the morning was a quick introduction to remember each oth...

Wetskills Kyrgyzstan – Day 2 October 16th, 2018     Early this morning, we got picked up by our dear host Mr. Kalybek...

A new Wetskills, a new challenge! Bishkek, 15 Oct 2018   Welcome to this exciting Wetskills Kyrgyzstan 2018 in the green city Bi...

By Nhlanhla Dube   The 26th of September finally arrived. The day everyone had been tirelessly working towards. This was the day...

by Kathiya Ali Alaufi   We start our challenge day, the day which summarizes the work for two weeks, by poster and 2 minutes pit...

By Pann Ei Ei Phyoe   As the final of the wetskills challenge is getting closer, the young professionals are also getting ready ...

By Fatema Al Mendhry   The day was started in the camping site with a light breakfast. I really liked this town but we left the ...

By Bianca Mogos     Slow Start at the camping site We started the day very late and slowly. Since we didn’t have to work ...

by Sibghat Ullah   I started my day by waking up at usual time & got ready for going to Water Campus. Before leaving home wh...

By Max Salemans   Pitch and Poster training The morning after the interesting, but very confusing counting game, that could easi...

By Amir Nakar   My name is Amir, I come from Israel, and today, September 19this my birthday. But I’ll get to that. This m...

By Tahani Bait Suwailam   The day was started with our walk at sharp 8:30 am to the Leeuwarden water campus where I was fascina...

By Afrah Hamed   After spending the first night in Alibi hostel, we went together at the early morning to the water campus with ...

by Ntsika Mtembu  & Dolev Termin   The day started at 11:00am when the whole group walked 1.5km to the Groningen railway st...

By Alaa Al Hinai & Laura Guthschmidt.   I’m Alaa Al Hinai, from Oman. This is my second time participating in the Wetsk...

Our international active host, the Universidad Tecnológica de Bolívar, makes Wetskills Colombia truly an unforgettable academic an...

Wetskills en Latinoamérica La Universidad Tecnológica de Bolívar ha sido el escenario elegido por distintos expertos para debatir ...

By Jieni Feng (Jessica)   The first time I join the team of other countries in the school to play together to complete the case,...

Hi! My name is Shihan Lou, English name is Frances. It is a great honor for me to be as a member of Wetskills this time. The host pla...

Wetskills Colombia 2018 Maria Gomes & Luuk Vermeulen   As the day before, the Dutch students woke up in the hotel and jumped...

By Ioana Dobrescu   After a ten-hour flight plus another 4 hours of bus, train and taxi travel combined, I am in Hangzhou. My fi...

by Conrad Balzer After two good days of relaxing and visiting a wastewater treatment and the beautiful wetlands the real work has to ...

By Yuan Kong I am a postgraduate majoring in environmental engineering at Zhejiang University of Technology. I was pretty excited whe...

Wetskills Colombia 2018 Ralph Wessling & Tim van de Staaij Wetskills Foundation   Cartagena, the port to the mainland of Lat...

Wetskills China 2018 Edition 30 Today edition number 30 brings Wetskills back to the roots, back to China where the first edition was...

By Jiuyan Fu Today is the China lover day, and we began our Wetskills-China program in a romantic atmosphere. While the weather was n...

Ni hao! My name is Lisa Bakker, I’m 20 years old and I’m a third year aquatic ecotechnology student at the HZ University of Appli...

 Muscat, Oman – 22 March 2018 (World Water Day) – SunGlacier Challenge Day 2 By Marcel Rompelman – Van Hall Larens...

Muscat, Oman – 21 March 2018 – SunGlacier Challenge Day 1 By Marcel Rompelman – Van Hall Larenstein / Windesheim U...

Muscat, Oman – 20 March 2018 – SunGlacier Challenge Day 0 By Marcel Rompelman – Van Hall Larenstein / Windesheim U...

Wetskills-South Korea 2018 – Looking back at my Olympic Wetskills journey I still find myself struggling to put down in words how i...

Wetskills-South Korea 2018 – After an amazing party and the exciting Wetskills finals yesterday, everyone could decide themselves t...

Wetskills South-Korea 2018 – Today is the day! We have been working on the project for two weeks, and today we had to pitch our sol...

Wetskills-South Korea 2018 – I heard about the ‘’Orange storm” word since World Cup 2006. I was so impressed about NL team at...

Wetskills-South Korea 2018 – A different day today, no stress, no hard work. Instead, we went to Gangneung for the Olympics! &n...

Wetskills-South Korea 2018 – Deadlines. Some people love them, some people hate them. Personally, I’m leaning more to the lov...

Wetskills-South Korea 2018 – Today is the day that the actual production begins. Last days we were all busy with brainstorming abou...

Wetskills-South Korea 2018 – Koreans are known to be working long days at the office. In one of the guidebooks on Korea I read that...

Wetskills-South Korea 2018 – Today is a day of action! We had a great day with a lot of impressions yesterday and now we have to wo...

Wetskills-South Korea 2018 – It is the third day in Korea and our second field trip. This was a perfect opportunity to continue...

Wetskills-South Korea 2018 – Finally, we gathered here, in Hongik University! It was a bit hard to get up early in the morning ...

Wetskills-South Korea 2018 – Before Wetskills South Korea really began, every Dutch participant had a long flight. South Korea ...

Wetskills-South Korea 2018 – Before, I didn’t have many chances to use the things I learned in university for I am still a bachel...

Wetskills-South Korea 2018 – Well, here I am. Sitting in a coffee bar in Seoul. Allright, I’ll admit it’s a Starbucks – I...

Day 13 – The AIWW. Sadly, Wetskills the Netherlands 2017 is coming to a close. After a fabulous two-week excursion around the...

Day 11 & 12 – Finals! This is the day we’ve been working towards the whole event. Monday the 30th of October had us wak...

Day 10 – Time is running fast and all the groups are working passionately for final pitches. In the morning, each group met so...

Day 8 – Hi there! After a late evening, returning to Rotterdam, Netherlands from separate destinations (Delft and Utrecht, re...

Day 7 – It’s the end of the first week and we all have to prepare ourselves well for the next week, which starts at Rotterda...

Hey, its day 6, almost a week, Isn’t it? And we will be done by the event in another week, and all back to their home. We all (orga...

Day 4 & 5 – The Monday morning after a Sunday of hard work and good night of sleep in the bungalows in Hattem started earl...

Day 3 – It was an early start after a late night with Indian delicacy coupled with beer of many varieties. It was even interes...

Day 2 – This morning I woke up in a jailcell with three foreigners. I’d never imagine I would have to say such a sentence. L...

Day 1 – We started day one of Wetskills with the official “kick-off” of the Wetskills programme at Waternet in Amsterdam. ...

‘It was a hard decision to announce the winning team. You are all winners’ said chair of the jury Henk Ovink special water envoy ...

Wetskills Israel 2017 –  When different cultures collide “As is water, Wetskills is also for everyone. Apart from the g...

Wetskills Israel 2017 –  Free time  “Shabbat is the best ‘day’ of the week”...

Wetskills Israel 2017 –  A typical workday at Wetskills  “Wetskills really is a pressure cooker!”...

After four years Wetskills is back in Israel (link). Wetskills-Israel 2017 has started this week: international participants from Isr...

Wetskills Israel 2017 –  The next Dutch delegation  “Israel is a land of many contrasts”...

Wetskills Israel 2017 –  The first day we really needed coffee  “Wetskills program brainwashed my mind’”...

Wetskills Israel 2017 –  Cultural tour through North East Israel  “This was the first full day of the Wetskills progr...

Wetskills Israel 2017 –  Meeting each other for the first time!  “Breaking the ice at one of the hottest days in Israe...

Wetskills Romania 2017 – May 17th  “Last day all together”...

Wetskills Romania 2017 – May 16th  “Second day at the ExpoApa”...

Wetskills Romania 2017 – May 15th  “Drinks and snacks at the Dutch Pavilion”...

Wetskills Romania 2017 – May 14th  “I went out with the Romanian participants: best teambuilding ever”...

Wetskills Romania 2017 – May 13th  “choose air, choose green”...

Wetskills Romania 2017 – May 12th  “Long story short: It was a good day”...

Wetskills Romania 2017 – May 12th  “With deadlines closing in, the pressure is on!”...

Wetskills Romania 2017 – May 11th  “Sometimes we look at things so differently, it’s funny.”...

Wetskills Romania 2017 – May 10th  “What better way to reward ourselves than with a giant, hot bath?”...

Wetskills Romania 2017 – May 9th  “What a great person and scientist!”...

Wetskills Romania 2017 – May 8th  “Teamwork went well and I am looking forward to the coming days!”...

Wetskills Romania 2017 – May 7th  “We had to improvise for the cooking, but it worked out really well!”...

Wetskills Romania 2017 – May 7th  “I had 9 pieces of paper…”...

Wetskills Romania 2017 – May 6th  “I met wonderful and open people with whom I would like to stay in touch with.“...

Wetskills Romania 2017 – May 5th  “This marble structure shows how innovative and open-minded the Romanian society can b...

Wetskills Romania 2017 – May 5th    “We stayed together on the porch having drinks, playing games, listening to mus...

Wetskills Romania 2017 – May 4th  “Iron bodily discipline and agonising screaks”...

Wetskills Romania 2017 – May 4th    “I had no idea what I had ordered for dinner, the menu was in Romanian”...

blog Wetskills-UK 10 April – by Hazel Lewis (Waterwise) Today was the first day of the IWA Young Water Professionals Conferen...

blog Wetskills-UK 9 April – by Zayneb al-Shalalfeh (University of  East Anglia) I thought that participating in Wetskills wi...

blog Wetskills-UK 8 April – by Katherine Fuller (Exeter University) Today started with my classic cup of tea (something I can...

blog Wetskills-UK 7 April – by Naama Segev (Technion) Woke up at 7 a.m., got to Uni of Bath by 8.30 a.m. (with line U1 of cou...

blog Wetskills-UK 6 April – by Gali Fux (Technion) A week has passed since the program began and each group is concentrated o...

blog Wetskills-UK 5 April – by Amanda Krijgsman (Wageningen University and Research center) Today was a very special day. It ...

blog Wetskills-UK 4 April – by Jochem Waterval (Wageningen University and Research center) Just like Monday and Friday we wen...

blog Wetskills-UK 3 April – by Yasmin Joenje (Waterschap Rijn en IJssel) Today was another day at the university. After our b...

blog Wetskills-UK 2 April – by Jesse Heiden (Rotterdam University) After a very, very hard night with a lot of bad dreams abo...

blog Wetskills-UK 1 April – by Joy Pengel (Wageningen University and Research center) Today we all woke up well rested and wi...

blog Wetskills-UK 31 March – by Annelise Herman (University of Leuven) Even after a good night sleep it was still hard to get...

blog Wetskills-UK  30 March- by Noortje Vromans (Universiteit Utrecht) It’s the first day of Wetskills United Kingdom 2017 a...

blog Wetskills-India 14 January – by Carolien Caspers (Radbout University Nijmegen) Today was the final day of the Wetskil...

blog Wetskills-India 12 January – by Jasper van den Heuvel (Wageningen University) This day started like any other where we...

blog Wetskills-India 11 January – by Jayray Khatri (Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University) After the Lunch session at Maha...

blog Wetskills-India 8 January – by Björn Bolhuis (Utrecht University) Today was our only free/relaxing day in the progra...

blog Wetskills-India 5 January – by Floor van den Elzen (Sustainable Development, Utrecht Univeristy) After four days of get...

blog Wetskills-India 6 January – by Peter van Leeuwen (Wageningen University) On Friday the 6th of January we went the Si...

blog Wetskills-India 6 January – by Heet Patel  (L.D. College of Engineering) Today, 6th January 2017. I reached CEE at 9:...

blog Wetskills-India 6 January – by Coen van den Nouweland  (Utrecht University) After the first working day, today was th...

blog Wetskills-India 6 January – by Purvesh Rajpurohit  (Silver Oak College) As the salinity ingress is the biggest proble...

blog Wetskills-India 5 January – by Manish Vadanere (Habitat Management, CEPT Univeristy Ahmedabad) Wetskills has  began a...

blog Wetskills-India 4 January – by Tess op den Kelder (Stockholm University, Sweden) Today we really started working on the...

blog Wetskills-India 3 January – by Poojan Patel  (Silver Oak College) After lunch, at 2.30pm we took uber taxi to go at ...

blog Wetskills-India 3 January – by Tim Verbeek (University of Groningen) Today we made teams for the different cases and w...

blog Wetskills-India 2 January – by Sagar Bhatia (Silver Oak College of Engineering Ahmedabad) 9 o’clock in the morning ...

blog Wetskills-India 1 January – by Iris Koekkoek (Utrecht University) At the first of January, the Dutch delegation of the...

blog#21, 12 December – by Bas Krewinkel (University of Twente) I still remember the morning we arrived in India, 8 o’clock...

blog#20, 11 December – by Iris van der Meer (Wageningen University & YEP) And the winner is .. ...

blog#19, 10 December – by Viraj Parekh (Silver Oak College of Engineering & Technology) Oh! My day started with a shock, ...

blog#21, 9 December – by Darpan Patel (IET-Ahmedabad University) Work, Work and more work....

blog#17, 7 December – by Evelien Martens (Delft University of Technology) The first day of the second week started with an am...

blog#16, 5 December – by Sebastiaan Oudendijk (Windesheim University of Applied Sciences) The Wetskills event started with t...

blog#15, 4 December (team 5) – by Karin van Dijk (Utrecht University) On Friday, our group was the only one to stay at CEE in...

blog#18, 4 December (team 1) – by Aneri Shah (School of building Science and Technology, CEPT University) It was our second d...

blog#12, 3 December (team 2) – by Amita Shah (Silver Oak College of Ahmedabad) We started in morning in very enthusiastic moo...

blog#11, 3 December (team 5) – by Aakruti Patel (Silver Oak College of Ahmedabad,Gujart) For the traditional water system to ...

blog#13, 3 December (team 2) – by Deepanjali Patil (Silver Oak College of Ahmedabad) My day started with delicious breakfast ...

blog#14, 3 December (team 2) – by Mrunalini Rana (Gujarat Technological University) Site visit to the Common Treatment Plant ...

blog#10, 6 December – by Ruben van Berk (Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences) The main tourist attraction in Udaipur is ...

blog#9, 4 December (team 3) – by Thomas van Veelen (University of Twente) Yesterday we were invited by a local family of farm...

blog#8, 4 December (team 4) – by Natasja Fraters (National Water Traineeship & Royal HaskoningDHV) Picture me sitting in ...

blog#7, 3 December (team 3) – by Stefan Holtland (Windesheim University of Applied Sciences) After a cold night sleep at the ...