Delft (The Netherlands), 26 - 27 February 2009

The UNESCO Water Education workshop will provide an opportunity to document best practices in water education at different levels in the North American and European region, in order to subsequently promote the dissemination and adaptation of such practices. The workshop will also provide an opportunity to link different levels of Education and provide recommendations to advance Water Education in the region.

Together with the outcomes of the regional workshops being organized in Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia and the Pacific, the Arab States and in Africa, this event will provide direct inputs into the UNESCO World Conference on Education for Sustainable Development (Bonn, Germany, March 2009), the 5th World Water Forum (Istanbul, Turkey, March 2009), and the 7th phase of the International Hydrological Programme (2008-2013), in the context of the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (2005-2014), to which UNESCO-IHE is a key contributing partner.

Topics that will be covered during the workshop in different sessions are:

1. Tertiary education and professional development of water scientists, engineers, managers and decision makers
2. Vocational education and training of water technicians
3. Water education in schools / k-12
4. Community and stakeholder education
5. Water education and mass-media professionals

A more comprehensive list of partners and their logos to be included soon