Ioana Dobrescu

The 3rd edition of Wetskills-China offered the participants a programme in the great cities of Hangzhou and Shanghai, visiting interesting and relevant water-related locations in and around Hangzhou and having a programme at the Aquatech-China in Shanghai. The finals were during the Celebration of 40 years friendship between the cities of Shanghai and Rotterdam, where guest of honour Mr Aboutaleb (Major of Rotterdam city) adressed the participants and awarded the winning team.

For the first time ever, a Wetskills Water Challenge was organized in Bangladesh. Through cooperation with the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, and the CORE project for Community Resilience for flood protection in urban delta areas, Wetskills was in Dhaka and Sirajganj with a programme from June 30 – July 12, 2019. Central theme: Flood resilience during the monsoon season. Winning team: Team Sanitation Stars, with their Gender-friendly Flood Proofing Sanitation System, focusing on community based resiliences.

India & Water: huge water challenges with both droughts and floods. 'Integrated Water Management and Flood Control' was the central theme of this Wetskills event in Kerala, India, aligned to a high-level business delegation visit from the Netherlands to Kerala (Kochi) on 18 October.

Wetskills Water Challenge in Muscat, Oman from 7-18 March 2020. We were back in this amazing, beautiful country with international teams of enthusiastic young water talents. Because of the corona virus outbreak, the program was slightly rescheduled, and finished one day earlier. All teams came up with innovative ideas for their cases, and team 5 was the final winning team with their concept for the Local Water Footprint Hub Initiative.

Wetskills jubilee event in South Africa! For the 5th time Wetskills Foundation and partners organised a Wetskills Water Challenge in this vibrant and beautiful country. Join us now!