Director
About us
The European Junior Water Programme (EJWP) is the flagship programme and official trade name of H20-People. H20-People became active in the public sphere with EJWP in 2019. At the moment H2O-People has two glafship programmes: the European Junior Water Programme (EJWP) and Blue Innovation Track for Advanced Water Leaders, and supports multiple European collaboration projects and innitiatives.
H2O-People
The H2O-People mission is to support water people, their organizations, their projects, and other collaborations with key specialties for succes. Our services empower water professionals to apply their complete skill sets to establish a water-smart sociert, from knowledge transfer and creation, to communication and leadership – combined to create impact through social innovation.
Therefore H2O-People develops and implements unique programmes, through utilitzing the power of social design and collaborates in projects on human capital development throughout the European Water ecosystem.
The services of H2O-People include:
Contact us if your organisation will benefit from tools to create tangible results t with our dynamic community of human-centric approach. More information on our dedicated website and H2O-People Flyer.
Our philosophy
Empowering people not only for technical solutions, but also reinforcing human elements of partnerships for social innovation in the water and environmental sector.
Our programme participants develop a broader scope of professional and personal opportunities, leading to positive impacts in their engagement with organisations that are committed to a better living environment. H20-People structures interaction with participants to create a space for further inspiring exchanges among trainers and the program designers. We apply personalised approaches and follow-up in a commitment to target results. An eye for synergies is developed through pairing the right people with the right expertise to broaden the scope of development.
We believe in operational partnerships with our participants, and from this connectivity comes a more real potential for participants to contribute to their communities. Our expertise centers on programs that highlight links between the content of participants’ work within the physical environment, to identify optimum paths for projects and personal development.
Contact us!
Do you want to create a specific programme for your organisation, project or other collaboration? Get in touch to schedule a free consultation.
EJWP Team
EJWP Ambassadors
Richard Elelman
Head of Politics, Eurecat – Centro Tecnológico de Catalunya and
Acting Coordinator of the WWQA – UNEP
Ambassador since 2020
Marielle van der Zouwen
Deputy director and management team KWR Water Research Institute, Head of Sustainability & Transitions Group
Ambassador since 2020
Chrysi Laspidou
Professor-Civil Engineering, University of Thessaly, Greece;
Vice President of Research and Technology–Water Europe;
Member of the WEF Nexus Steering Committee at Future Earth
Ambassador since 2021
EJWP Community
Hi, my name is Thibault Moreels. I joined De Watergroep as a hydraulic engineer after my studies of Civil Engineering at the Vrije Universiteit in Brussels. I am responsible for building network models using specific software. Our models cover the whole transportation network of De Watergroep. We calibrate these computational models with the help of live data from embedded pressure sensors and flow meters. This ensures accurate calculations. The purpose of these models is to determine optimal pipe sizes, pumping stations specifications and reservoir capacities to use materials and energy in the most efficient way. I’ve had the opportunity to take part in several international programs includ…
Client: AquaFed Period of project: 1 December – 28 March 2022 Participants: Nikolaos Mellios , Dimitris Kofinas, Mirela Sertić Perić, Lander Wantens ,
Client: ACTeon Period of project
ACTeon Environment is a part of our EJWP community through the participation of Manon Berge in EJWP2. Manon is working at ACTeon as a sociologist focused on water-related projects, and is very interested in working more at the EU level. ACTeon hosted an EJWP training week last March in which EJWP participants from five European countries gathered at the company in France to collaborate on their project, interact with the company and its staff, and to train in personal and professional development. Manon has provided a glimpse into ACTeon to highlight what it …
Client: Faculty of Civil Engineering and Architecture, University of Niš, Serbia
Client: The Delfland, The Netherlands EJWP2: September-December 2021 Participants: Merel Mostert, Andres Lucht, Borko Radivojevic, Manon Berge, Benjamin Hermans,