Next Generation Water Action

DTU Skylab.

DTU Skylab er ramme for en spændende international event 18. maj, hvor du har mulighed for at deltage online og høre oplæg fra 11 state-of-the-art water start-ups og fra studerende, der har arbejdet med at løse 5 udfordringer, der er stillet af virksomheder og partnere. DANVAs sekretariatschef og formand for IWA Danmark Helle Katrine Andersen er dommer i sessionen med de unge akademikere, og næstformand i IWA Danmark og IWA kongrespræsident i 2022 Anders Bækgaard er dommer i juryen, der skal kåre vinderne blandt de unge entreprenører.

5 udfordringer

Virksomhederne Grundfos, Rambøll og LE34 samt andre partnere har formuleret udfordringerne til de unge studerende, som skal præsentere løsninger på disse problemer:

Wastewater Treatment & Resource Recovery of Sewage Sludge: How can a city like Daegu move towards becoming NetZero by unlocking the full potential of sewage sludge through resource recovery or innovative circular reuse?
City Scale Planning and Operations & Climate Adaption: How to adapt to a changing climate in cities like Rio de Janeiro with a huge informal sector and increasing population when our data set is not sufficient enough to make a risk assessment?
Water Infrastructure in Ghana: How might we use low-cost equipment to provide data input to AI-analysis for mapping and classification of water utility network changes in Ghana to mitigate loss of water through faults or damage to the network during construction?
Water Resources & Large Scale Water Management: How can we solve the critical challenges faced by India in managing its water resources through inclusive digital water management solutions that are cost effective and easily deployable?
Wastewater Treatment & Resource Recovery: How might we recover scarce or non-renewable resources from effluents/brine streams to reduce environmental impact on water treatment processes?

Program

IWA’s direktør Kala Vairavamoorthy holder tale i dagens første session, hvor der også er taler af DTU, Grundfos, Rambøll og IWA Young Water Professionals.
Overblik over dagens program:
11.00: Welcome & Partner talks
11.30: Finalist announcement - Young Academics
11.45: Pitch session 1: Young entrepreneurs representing 11 start-ups
13.15: Pitch session 2: Finalists Young Academics solving 5 Urban Water Challenges.
14:30: Break & Community activities
14.45: Awards ceremony & Celebration
15.30: End of program

Læs mere om finalen og programmet i PDF her.

Rejselegat til vindere

IWA Danmark har sponsoreret i alt 10 rejselegater. 5 rejselegater går til udenlandske vindere med henblik på deltagelse i IWA World Water Congress & Exhibition i København i september 2022. Og 5 rejselegater er øremærket til danskere. Rejselegaterne vil blive overrakt af Anders Bækgaard, kongrespræsident i 2022.