The latest news from the Junior Water Programme and it’s partners
The European Water Stars initiative gets a new home
July 1, 2020, In 2018, three organizations focused on youth and young professionals’ development in the water sector came up with the idea for the European Water Stars. These organizations were the Dutch National Water Traineeship, the Wetskills Water Foundation and the European Junior Water Programme. All three recognized the need for awareness raising on water issues among […]
The Magic of Water, a Masterclass with Henk Ovink, Water Envoy of the Netherlands
June 30, 2020, A Masterclass of the only Water Envoy of The Netherlands, Henk Ovink Thursday 18 June 2020, European Junior Water Programme Lonely we can not call the work of Henk Ovink as only Water Envoy world-wide. Since 2015, Henk has become the first (and only) water envoy in the world, on official assignment from the government […]
EJWP is proud to announce it’s first Ambassadors
June 29, 2020, During WIE Human Capital Working Group meeting, EJWP was happy to announce it’s first two Ambassdors: Marielle van der Zouwen and Richard Elelman. They are both working for research institutes, Marielle as knowledge manager at the Dutch KWR and Richard as head of politics at the Catalunyan EURECAT, and they are both supporters of the […]
Project Presentation de Watergroep
June 29, 2020, Source protection of surface water bodies used for drinking water in Europe. “Precaution is always better than fixing problems afterwards. … We need to prevent today what must not happen tomorrow.” (European River Memorandum 2020) Water is essential for all life on earth. Access to water for water supply is one of our most important […]
EJWP presenters at Innovative Water Week
June 17, 2020, Proud of our participants of EJWP1 & 2 taking up the challenge to wrap up the sessions of the Innovative Water Week. Join online next week to meet them!
EJWP is 1 Year Old!
June 10, 2020, We would normally be celebrating this milestone live, in Brussels, at Water Innovation Week, together with the initial 8 participants plus the launch of the second group, EJWP2020-2022. We can’t be there live, and the launch of the second group has been postponed to September, but we still wish to celebrate with you, our network, […]
EJWP expands the programmes with a very special Summer Programme 2020!
June 10, 2020, “We are not only in a crisis, we are also in a transition phase. This creates the unique conditions to think and move more freely to create rapid change. It provides the best opportunity for teams to do their most innovative work.” (Larry Clark, Harvard Business) This is an opportunity the water sector should not […]
An eventful June 2020
June 7, 2020, An eventful month is ahead of us. Planned was the start of second batch EJWP this month at Water Innovation Europe. A new group of enthousiastic young and ambitious people on stage of Water Europe in Brussels. In the room our participants of the first batch, our partners, the european water community. A first group […]
“Give it attention and it will grow”
May 25, 2020, Masterclass of Dutch Climate Envoy, Marcel Beukeboom May 19, 2020 Last week was a week of many impulses for #EJWP1. With our trainings on Personal Resilience and Agility and Online Personal Branding in mind, we entered a completely new world: the world of Climate Diplomacy. With the European Green Deal as one of our major […]
A human touch…
May 6, 2020, Everyone is following the news to find out what is happening in their country, everywhere where the virus has reached. EJWP has its own local news correspondents: the participants themselves. With 8 countries participating, our bi-weekly digital-drinks are also social and informative moment. Hedviga our Slovakian lecturer enjoys to have digi- sessions “with great people […]
Launch of EJWP animation movie
April 23, 2020, March 2020 was supposed to be a month full of traveling and sharing the experiences and possibilities of EJWP for participants, organizations and young professionals. Since we are no longer able to tell everyone in person about our programme we created monthly online Presentation and Q&A sessions with Naomi, but Naomi was also drawn into […]
Follow up Human Capital project
April 23, 2020, The first EJWP group project was commissioned by Water Europe and consisted of a desk study and public consultation on human capital in the water sector at European level. The results of the project were further taken up by the WE Working Group Human Capital which has further developed the results into a position paper […]
