Event Blogs

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 ...

blog#6, 2 December – by Vivek George Sanu (Architect student from Kerala) My day started with a bowl of cornflakes and milk. ...

blog#5, 1 December – by Roy Pasman (University of Twente) Today we went to the envirotech conference in the Mahatma Mandir co...

blog#4, 30 November – by Deepak Hiremath (IET, Ahmedabad City) We were all divided into five groups who were assigned one of ...

blog#3, 29 November – by Maarten Klaversteijn (Windesheim University of Applied Sciences) I woke up at 6:30 AM and felt quite...

blog#2, 28 November – by  Vishnupriya R (Kerala, India) The first day of the Wetskills program was a mixture of great excit...

blog#1, 27 November – by Manisha Jhingoer (Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences) It was a cold day in Rotterdam, when we...

by Laura Stanescu University Politehnica of Bucharest Hi, I’m Laura from Romania and in the following paragraphs I’m hoping to sk...

As follow-up of the event in Canada, Wetskills is happening in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. Read the daily blog of the parti...

Wetskills Water Challenge is back in Romania, movie. Read the daily blog of the participants and organization here. blog#13, 18 Jun...