Romania has a very diverse landscape and water system, with high mountains and the largest Delta of the European Union: Danube Delta. Romania faces challenges in water and wastewater, in both large urban areas as well as remote rural villages, and has a large water management experience of dealing with floods and droughts. And the country itself is inspiring and various: From the booming big Bucharest with its historic buildings and churches, immens large People’s Parliament and the Old City with bars, pubs as heart of the City to idillic smaller cities and villages in epic Transylvania and more low and dry Wallachia (border to Bulgaria) and the Europe’s largest bioreserve Danube Delta.
Wetskills Foundation is inviting students (Bachelor (final year), Master and PhD) and Young Professionals from universities and organisations worldwide with a passion for Water and SDGs, to join this great and proven event and apply for Wetskills-Romania 2022 (period: 13-25 May 2022).
Wetskills Foundation and partners will organize the Wetskills Challenge for the sixth time in Bucharest, Romania. This Wetskills edition in Romania will be hosted by Politehnica University of Bucharest. Other main partners of this event are University of Agronomic Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Bucharest and Technical University for Civil Engineering in Bucharest, the Romanian Water Association, Apele Romane and the Embassy of The Kingdom of The Netherlands.
This edition of Wetskills will start on 13 May 2022, and will take place in and around to the great city of Bucharest. During the 2-weeks program the participants will in international, multidisciplinary teams on real-life water cases. The finals and awarding ceremony will take place during the ExpoApa Water Conference and Exhibition in the Palace of Parliament of Bucharest (23-25 May 2022).
For more information and regristration: https://wetskills.com/event/wetskills-romania-2022/