2023

Global Water Partnership Central and Eastern Europe, as a partner of the EU Horizon 2020 OPTAIN project, organized its 2023 Summer School for 21 selected Msc, PhD students and graduates working in water management, representing Belgium, Sri Lanka, Norway, Iran, the Philippines, Slovenia, Lithuania, Bolivia, Germany, France, Turkey, Ghana, Brazil, Kosovo, Slovakia, Finland and Hungary.

A kick-off meeting of the Visegrad Fund project officially unveiled the new Community of Practice Platform, focusing on Armenian drought.

A GWP CEE led SlovakAid funded project is now searching for a combination of solutions to mitigate severe droughts in Kosovo.

GWP CEE Regional Chair, Prof. Dr. Tjasa Griessler Bulc, represented the organization at the UN Water Conference 2023. We asked Dr. Bulc about her experience and future impact of the venue on the participating organizations and their peers.

The International Sava River Basin Commission has launched a new competition titled: Let’s work with nature!

GWP CEE Regional Coordinator, Konstantin Ivanov, gave a welcome speech and participated at the international scientific and practical online conference dedicated to World Water Day.

Summer School 2023 will open doors to the next generation of young water professionals from 2-8 July in Prague, Czechia to explore the benefits of Natural Small Water Retention Measures for Sustainable Water Management.

GWP CEE Chair, Prof. Dr. Tjaša Griessler Bulc, will attend the first global conference on freshwater in almost 50 Years in New York from 22-24 March 2023.

More than 50% of GWP CEE regional staff and council consists of successful women. We asked Assistant Professor Darja Istenič to share her story and world-changing projects she helps to develop.