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An international team of students and young water professionals from Romania, The Netherlands and other countries joined us for this Wetskills-Rominia 2021 event. They worked on 3 challenging water cases in a program with interesting wokshops and field visites, starting on 11 September, and presenting their ideas during the Finals and Awarding session with livestream on 22 September.

This Wetskills Water Challenge was aligned to the AIWW 2021 - Amsterdam International Water Week. Teams of students and young professionals from various countries wee working on real life water cases in a two-week programme (24 October – 5 November 2021) with site visits, teambuilding and meetings with water experts. Some were joining online from home, due to corona. The main challenge: to think out-of-the-box and develop innovative, realistic concepts. The teams presented their ideas during the finals on 4 November in Amsterdam, as part of the AIWW - Future Water Leaders Programme.

Online (interstate) W@tskills Event in India! Wetskills Foundation and our Indian host Centre for Environment Education were organizing this - online - Water Challenge with participants from different states in India, working together with international participants, in transdisciplinary teams, on real-life water & climate adaptation cases. Finals with pitches by all teams were on 2 December 2021 in an online event.

This Wetskills Water Challenge was organized in and around Dubai. Teams of students and young professionals from various countries were working on real life water cases in a two-week hybrid program (5-16 January 2022) with site visits and meetings with water experts. Their main challenge: to think out-of-the-box and develop innovative, realistic concepts. The teams presented their ideas during the Finals on 16 January as part of the WorldExpo program. 'It was a great event!'

An international team of students and young water professionals from Romania, The Netherlands and other countries joined us for this Wetskills-Romania 2022 water challenge. One of the main topics of this event was Water & Data Management. The Finals and Awarding Ceremony were at the IWA International Conference on Hydroinformatics (HIC 2022) in Bucharest. Attending this conference (6 July 2022) was included in the program.

Wetskills was back in South-Korea, after the ‘Olympic’ Wetskills edition of 2018 and its successor at the Korea International Water Week in Daegu in 2019. We had again a great event, from 24 August to 2 September 2022, aligned to the KSWE Conference (Seoul)!