An international team of students and young water professionals from Romania and the Netherlands joined the Wetskills-Rominia 2019 event. They worked on challenging water issues and presented their ideas during the Official Opening of the Flood Proof Romania Polder, a unique testing facility for smart water management solutions.
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.
Wetskills-Mexico 2019 was another great event! The participants were in Mexico City for a 2-weeks program with challenging cases, meetings with water-experts and visits to interesting water-related locations. The finals and awarding ceremony were during Aquatech-Mexico 2019.
Wetskills was in South Korea for the second time, after the first Olympic edition in winter 2018. Some 20 participants were joining the event! They worked together with international peers on challenging water cases, in a 2-weeks program with team building, field visits and real-life cases submitted by case owners. Follow this event, it has started at August 26!
Wetskills organized the first Water Challenge in Hungary! This edition of Wetskills brought the participants to the beautiful city of Budapest for a two-weeks programme, with workshops, teamwork, visits to water-related locations and meetings with water-experts. The finals and awarding were aligned to the Budapest Water Summit. ‘Preventing water crises is the most important commandment of our time.’
India & Water: huge water challenges. This third Wetskills event in India was focusing on (waste)water treatment, public involvement and creating a lively testing facility 'WETLAB' at the Barapullah Drain in Delhi. The finals were during the Tech Summit in Delhi on 15 and 16 October 2019.
