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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 and PhD students and graduates, working in the field of water management. The selected students represented the countries of Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Finland, France, Germany, Ghana, Hungary, Iran, Kosovo, Lithuania, Norway, Philippines, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sri Lanka and Turkey.

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.

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.

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.

GWP CEE Project Manager, Anna Smetanova, presented on the Social Inclusion, Climate Justice and Drought at the WASAG Forum in West Africa.

A week full of theory and practice in water governance brought up our next generation of young water specialists.

In June 2022, a cohort of young and aspiring water specialists from Central and Eastern Europe will get a chance to experience a week of theory and practice on Integrated Water Resources Management at the Tisza Lake in Hungary.

Today marks the 2022 World Water Day celebration. The GWP CEE Water in the Circular Economy Taskforce prepared a report from Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania and Slovenia