Event Blogs

Romania – 15 Sept 2021 – Wetskills Challenge day 5 By Hugo Beekelaar (Wageningen University)   Today, Loes finally got her baggage, which was lost the ...

Romania – 13 Sept 2021 – Wetskills Challenge day 3 By Mariëlle van Es (Wageningen University)   Today was our second day of the small field tr...

Romania – 11 Sept 2021 – Wetskills Challenge day 1 By Loes Heemskerk (Wetsus Academy)   With a fresh mind and suitcase full of ideas I went on ...

Copenhagen, Denmark – 27 August 2021 – Wetskills Challenge Day 13 By Magnus Johansen (Danish Technical University)   Wetskills is over – now begins...

Copenhagen, Denmark – 26 August 2021 – Wetskills Challenge Day 12 By Renske Nollen (DIJK53)   Today was the last Wetskills day. We went to the univer...

Copenhagen, Denmark – 26 August 2021 – Wetskills Challenge Day 12 By Francisca Sousa Braga (Aalborg University & Porto University)   The DAY that...

Copenhagen, Denmark – 25 August 2021 – Wetskills Challenge Day 11 By Richard Marijnissen (Wageningen University & Research)   Today it was finall...

Copenhagen, Denmark – 24 August 2021 – Wetskills Challenge Day 10 By Sarah van Hulten (HZ University of Applied Sciences)   We are very close to the...

Copenhagen, Denmark – 23 August 2021 – Wetskills Challenge Day 9 By Sverre van Klaveren (Dutch Water Authorities)     In every great story ther...

Copenhagen, Denmark – 22 August 2021 – Wetskills Challenge Day 8 By Renske Nollen (DIJK53)   Sunday is our one day off from the program, but our tea...

Copenhagen, Denmark – 21 August 2021 – Wetskills Challenge Day 7 By Alisa van Gent (Wageningen University and Technical University of Delft)   Today...

Copenhagen, Denmark – 20 August 2021 – Wetskills Challenge Day 6 By Team 2   Our Wetskills challenge is based in Falsterbo, a Swedish peninsula close...

Copenhagen, Denmark – 19 August 2021 – Wetskills Challenge Day 5 By Anusha Mehta (Netherlands Water Partnership)   Our day began with some soft jazz...

Copenhagen, Denmark – 18 August 2021 – Wetskills Challenge Day 4 By Nynke van der Helm (University of Groningen)   Yesterday we got to know our case...

Copenhagen, Denmark – 17 August 2021 – Wetskills Challenge Day 3 By Magnus Johansen (Danish Technical University)   Today we were back in the classro...

Copenhagen, Denmark – 16 August 2021 – Wetskills Challenge Day 2  By Marsha Tack (Wageningen University & Research)   Starting the workweek, als...

Copenhagen, Denmark – 15 August 2021 – Wetskills Challenge Day 1 By Eline Anvik (Free University of Amsterdam / Amsterdam International Water Week) &nbs...

W@tskills South Africa 2021 by Sbusiso Khuboni, Kimara Moodley (South Africa), Mpho Ramothole (South Africa) & Paul Notenboom (Netherlands)   The first...

W@tskills South Africa 2021 by Karabo Mokoena,  Thandilizwe Bengeza (South Africa). Zintle Mbeka (South Africa) and Wessel de Beer (Netherlands),   8th of Ma...

W@tskills South Africa 2021 by Mashila Phihlela, Lutendo Nemayhola (South Africa), Tshepang Kgositau (South Africa) and Gerben van Muiswinkel (The Netherlands) ...

W@tskills South Africa 2021 by Sharon Setshedi, Masha Makgwale, Wendy Dube (South Africa) and Sebastiaan Haverkate ( Netherlands)   Day 5: Communication ...

W@tskills South Africa 2021 by Nkhensani Tshidzumba, Awodwa Magingi, Lindelwa Ndhlovu (South Africa) Janne Brouwers and Renate Heemskerk (Netherlands)   ...

Wetskills Netherlands 2020- by Olaf Koster, University of Melbourne   Today was the day after the end of the 10 day workshop week of Wetskills. Some of the...

Wetskills Netherlands 2020- by Duco Bijleveld, Wageningen University   What can we expect at the finals? The main event is the pitch of our three teams who...

Wetskills Netherlands 2o2o- by Gladys Mutahi, Wetsus Academy   It’s almost a wrap at the Wetskills The Netherlands 2020. The good men say the early bird ...

Wetskills Netherlands 2020- by Marvin Ouma, Wetsus Academy       The day began with nice sunshine, a promising sign of a great day. I had breakfa...

Wetskills Netherlands 2020, by Sarahi Garcia Garcia Villa, Wetsus Academy   We started our day visiting the library to prepare our pitches and posters. Aft...

Wetskills Netherlands 2020- by Nienke Vermeer, Utrecht University   After a great evening of homemade food, dancing and a good’s night sleep, everyone wo...

Wetskills Netherlands 2020- by Lauren Pope, WASTE adviser   The first Wetskills since the COVID slowdowns is proving to be the best form of a hybrid online...

Wetskills Netherlands 2020- by Matthijs Koop, Wageningen University     It is 7:00 o’clock, after a quick shower and a coffee in the citycenter ...

Wetskills Netherlands 2020- by Bram Berkelmans, YEP   Today was a thriving Wetskills day. We met up with our case owners, shared ideas, brainstormed broadl...

Wetskills Netherlands 2020- by Ron Wolthuis   The second day of the event was all about the excursion. First by bus to the Afsluitdijk to see how the IJsse...

Wetskills Netherlands 2020- by Daan Berkouwer, Van Hall Larenstein   My first Wetskills event started this morning at 0700, packing stuff and on the road w...

Wetskills Netherlands 2020- by Charlie Casey-Haden, Program Supervisor, Wetskills   It’s Sunday, it’s 10:30 in the morning and I’m in the McDonalds c...

Wetskills Oman 2020 – the corona edition Supervised by Ahmed Al-Busaidi and Marcel Rompelman   Wetskills Oman 2020 finished a day earlier than originally...

Wetskills-Oman 2020 – by Nathalie van Veen –   On Friday our weekend started (which is really weird, if you are used to a weekend that starts o...

Wetskills-Oman 2020 – Watch the Vlog by Femke van Woesik –  …...

Wetskills-Oman 2020 – Watch the Vlog by Ceylan Çete –  ...

Wetskills-Oman 2020 – by Said Humaid Salim Al Asmi – Early morning all groups worked to submit the action plan for the case study as per the deadlin...

Wetskills-Oman 2020 – by Buthayna Al Ghafri – Today (Sunday 8th March) was the first day of working on the Wetskills program at Sultan Qaboos Univer...

Wetskills Oman 2020 – Watch the vlog by Ocker Gehring  ...

Wetskills The Netherlands 2019 by Shifa (Oman), Margo (South Africa) and Niurka (Mozambique)   05 November 2019- As the second day of the Amsterdam Interna...

Wetskills The Netherlands 2019 By Luyanda (eSwatini) & Asmahan (Oman)   4 November 2019: Waking up today was a struggle; from writing a report, pitchi...

Wetskills The Netherlands 2019 by Veerle (The Netherlands), Allyn (South Africa) & Almutamed (Oman)   03 November 2019: Today was all about finishing o...

Wetskills The Netherlands 2019 by Kalpana Maraj (South Africa) & Ismail Laghmiri (Netherlands)   It was an early start for us this morning as we prep...

Wetskills The Netherlands 2019 by Aslıhan (Turkey)   We started the day very sharp at the Jazz Cafe Dizzy working on our pitches and posters which will be...

Wetskills The Netherlands by Sibongile (South Africa)   This day started very well everyone was on the tram on time 8h30 sharp!! heading to Hogeschool Rott...

Wetskills The Netherlands by Phomolo (Lesotho) & Arsenio (Mozambique)   All work and no play, makes Jack a dull boy. All play and no work, makes Jack a...

Wetskills The Netherlands 2019 by Sandra (Zimbabwe) & Oscar (Panama)   Upon hearing the word “challenge” in the Wetskills Water Challenge (WWC), on...

Wetskills The Netherlands 2019 by Ron (Israel)   Fifth day is here and the real work started!   After four amazing days of getting to know each other,...

Wetskills The Netherlands 2019 By Itani (South Africa) & Moza (Oman)   Everything started on a cold Sunday morning where we celebrated a fellow partic...

Wetskills The Netherlands By Mira (Oman) & Mthokozisi (Zimbabwe)   Waking up on the 26th of October proved to be a challenge after a long night of exp...

Wetskills The Netherlands 2019 By Tasneem (Palestine) & Mohammed (Palestine)   Today we started at 9 am as the second day of teamwork which is a full-d...

Wetskills The Netherlands 2019 By Annesley Crisp (South Africa)   On Thursday 24th October 2019, 26 young water professionals from across the world made th...

Wetskills Kerala 2019 – By Xiaoxuan Zhao and Csilla Bekker – On the last day of the Wetskills program we had to give our pitches at the Conference o...

Wetskills Kerala 2019 – by Twan Smitskamp and Febin Jacob   Time is flying when you’re having fun. Today was the last day of working on the project...

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

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

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

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

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 was 07:48 and the streets wer...

Wetskills Kerala 2019 – by Maarten de Vries –   The fifth day of Wetskills Kerala started like a typical day at school: wake up at 8:00, finall...

Wetskills Kerala 2019 – by Denny J Dilip –   It’s the third day of the Wetskills programme. The teams have been decided, the cases have b...

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

Wetskills Kerala 2019 – by Zacharaia Joseph –   Day 2 was assigned for excursion and site visits to flood and landslides affected areas in Waya...

Wetskills Hungary 2019 – by Evelin Németh After a really eventful weekend we was going to Csepel Island where located the Waste Water Treatment Plant fro...

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

Wetskills Kerala 2019 – by Elsa Anna Simon –   I’m an Urban Planner with Architecture background, currently working as Assistant Professor at...

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

Wetskills Hungary 2019 – By Berend – The Wicked Wetskills Weblog: 5 october afternoon And crazy it was! We split up in three groups -the groups that...

Wetskills South Korea 2019 –  by Khawon Lee (Sangmyung University –    Can you remember the first day of Wetskills? It’s kind of awkward wh...

Wetskills South Korea 2019 –  by Kyutae Kim (University of Twente) –    Short but so intense two weeks has been passed. Due to the hurricane ...

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

Wetskills South Korea 2019 –  by Berkay Umut Yesildagli (Korea Institute of Science and Technology)    Wetskills is a journey. A psychical test whi...

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

Wetskills Mexico 2019 – by Simone van Holst & Andrea Velasco Martinez This morning everyone woke up with excitement and maybe a little bit of nervousn...

Wetskills South Korea 2019 –  by Hyeonmin Lee (Seoul National University) –    In the morning, we attended to World Water Cities Forum. Befor...

Wetskills South Korea 2019 –  by Eveline van Groesen (Water Authority Brabantse Delta) –      Last night was deadline night. So, when we...

Wetskills South Korea 2019 –  by Seungyeon Lee (Hongik University) –   Today is the day to leave for Daegu to attend the KIWW. We gathered at ...

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

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

Wetskills South Korea 2019 –  by Charlotte Casey- Haden (Hoogheemraadschap Hollands Noorderkwartier)    Sunday started like any other Wetskills day...

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

Wetskills South Korea 2019 –  by Youngin Kim (Hongik University)    Today is weekend, but everyone worked together. We met at a later time than usu...

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

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

Wetskills Mexico 2019 – by Leonardo Bueno Guerrero (Universidad de Guadalajara) & Brenda Palomares (UNAM) – Things have started to come together...

Wetskills South Korea 2019 –  by Amber van der Meijs (Waterschap Brabantse Delta)    What started as a dry and sunny morning, turned quickly into a...

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

Wetskills South Korea 2019 –  by Hyojeong Lee (Hongik University) –   There was a team announcement today. I wondered what case I was going to...

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

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

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

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

Wetskills South Korea 2019 –  by Sanne de Smet (Delft University of Technology) –  Well I thought that writing a blog would be the perfect activit...

Wetskills South Korea 2019 –  by Dami Kim (Hongik University) –  First of all, I thought that this Wetskills program would be a great opportunity ...

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

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

By Fairooz Tasnim Tori   After a long tiring journey at previous day, Sirajganj welcome us with banquet of green and blue serenity. The day was planned to ...

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

By Noshin Saiyara   From the idea of thinking independently together Wetskills introduced us to the wide range of diversity. May this be in culture or in n...

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

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

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

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

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 it. But when the 1st discu...

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

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

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

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

June 5th, 2019 Wetskills Romania 2019 by Maria Nava Ocampo The day started by getting all ready to have a great typical Romanian breakfast, later on we had a re...

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 Cabin to suit up for Rafting w...

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

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 be disturbed by some travel...

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

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

Muscat, Oman – 24 March 2019 – Wetskills Water Challenge Day 9 By Atheer Al Kabsi (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Ara...

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

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

Muscat, Oman – 20 March 2019 – Wetskills Water Challenge Day 5 By Rawabi Al Hajri (A’Sharqiyah University)   When you start to break t...

Muscat, Oman – 19 March 2019 – Wetskills Water Challenge Day 4 By Areej Al Ghaithi (Petroleum Development Oman)   I was on holiday, in a diffe...

Muscat, Oman – 19 March 2019 – Wetskills Water Challenge Day 4 By Balqees Al Shaaibi (A’Sharqiyah University)   We start the day by Jo...

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

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

Muscat, Oman – 17 March 2019 – Wetskills Water Challenge Day 2 By Ilsa Phillips (Wageningen University)   Yesterday was the first day at the S...

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

Muscat, Oman – 15 March 2019 – Wetskills Water Challenge Day 0 By Rachid Abraimi (Water Authority Hollandse Delta)   On Friday 15th of march m...

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

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

Wetskills Kyrgyzstan – Day 8   Today was pretty much productive day, probably the most productive since the beginning of the training. At least for o...

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

Wetskills Kyrgyzstan 18.10.2018 Day 4 Today we started again with a little game to learn each other’s names. Unfortunately, a lot of people came late so we ha...

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 other’s names better. After ...

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

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

By Nhlanhla Dube   The 26th of September finally arrived. The day everyone had been tirelessly working towards. This was the day all teams would do their p...

by Kathiya Ali Alaufi   We start our challenge day, the day which summarizes the work for two weeks, by poster and 2 minutes pitch. Wetskills finals is a p...

By Pann Ei Ei Phyoe   As the final of the wetskills challenge is getting closer, the young professionals are also getting ready with each own project and c...

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 place at 10:30am. The weath...

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

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

By Max Salemans   Pitch and Poster training The morning after the interesting, but very confusing counting game, that could easily be used to test how well...

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

By Tahani Bait Suwailam   The day was started with our walk at sharp 8:30 am to the Leeuwarden water campus where I was fascinated by the breath-taking vi...

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

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

By Alaa Al Hinai & Laura Guthschmidt.   I’m Alaa Al Hinai, from Oman. This is my second time participating in the Wetskills program. I joined it a...

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

Wetskills en Latinoamérica La Universidad Tecnológica de Bolívar ha sido el escenario elegido por distintos expertos para debatir sobre temas del agua. Gepla...

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

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 place is Hangzhou which happen...

Wetskills Colombia 2018 Maria Gomes & Luuk Vermeulen   As the day before, the Dutch students woke up in the hotel and jumped into the taxi around 8:15....

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

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

By Yuan Kong I am a postgraduate majoring in environmental engineering at Zhejiang University of Technology. I was pretty excited when I heard that Wetskills wo...

Wetskills Colombia 2018 Ralph Wessling & Tim van de Staaij Wetskills Foundation   Cartagena, the port to the mainland of Latin America. Recognized as ...

Wetskills China 2018 Edition 30 Today edition number 30 brings Wetskills back to the roots, back to China where the first edition was also held: Hangzhou. Again...

By Jiuyan Fu Today is the China lover day, and we began our Wetskills-China program in a romantic atmosphere. While the weather was not that shining, we were so...

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 Applied Sciences in Vlissingen. ...

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

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

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

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

Wetskills-South Korea 2018 – After an amazing party and the exciting Wetskills finals yesterday, everyone could decide themselves today what they wanted to do...

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 solution in the Holland Heinek...

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

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

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

Wetskills-South Korea 2018 – Today is the day that the actual production begins. Last days we were all busy with brainstorming about solutions and ideas. Now ...

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 “working in Korea may be...

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 work because our first deadli...

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

Wetskills-South Korea 2018 – Finally, we gathered here, in Hongik University! It was a bit hard to get up early in the morning as I am not used to that, b...

Wetskills-South Korea 2018 – Before Wetskills South Korea really began, every Dutch participant had a long flight. South Korea is 8 hours ahead of the Net...

Wetskills-South Korea 2018 – Before, I didn’t have many chances to use the things I learned in university for I am still a bachelor student and our faculty�...

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

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

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

Day 10 – Time is running fast and all the groups are working passionately for final pitches. In the morning, each group met somewhere to be trained on pi...

Day 8 – Hi there! After a late evening, returning to Rotterdam, Netherlands from separate destinations (Delft and Utrecht, respectively), it was 07:45 a...

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 Rotterdam Central Station. There wa...

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 (organizers, expert, participant...

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

Day 3 – It was an early start after a late night with Indian delicacy coupled with beer of many varieties. It was even interesting to see 23 people gathe...

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. Luckily for me, we were not ...

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

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

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

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 Israeli and Dutch universities...

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 program!”...

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

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”...