Specialist in Water Technology
The Hidden Champions
Organizer: German Association for Water, Wastewater and Waste in co-operation with BIBB, UNESCO-UNEVOC, WorldSkills Germany (WSG)
Date: Thursday, 4 July
The Conference "Water Operators – The Hidden Champions?" on July 4th 2013 introduced career opportunities in the water sector. International speakers discussed the needed qualifications, as well as how the education and training coud be improved.
For further information and agenda of the conference, please visit DWA’s website www.dwa.de
Agenda for the day:
| 09:00 – 13:00 | Visit Demo Skill – Water Technology – at Stanley Hall |
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| 13:00 | Welcome Robert Schmidt, Board of Directors, DWA, Munich, Germany Ruediger Heidebrecht, Head of Department Training and international Cooperation, DWA, Hennef, Germany |
| 13:30 | Introduction to the world water sector Kirsten de Vette, IWA, Den Haag, The Netherlands |
| 13:50 | Greening TVET – environmental changes needed – a world perspective Shyamal Majumdar, UNESCO-UNEVOC International Centre for Technical and Vocational Education and Training, Bonn, Germany (tbc) |
| 14:15 | WorldSkills Germany – The new WorldSkills discipline “Water Technology”, promoting vocational qualification in the water sector around the world. Elfi Klumpp, Managing Board Member WorldSkills Germany, Denkendorf, Germany |
| 14:40 | The German Occupations in the water and waste sector – 29 years experiences. Marion Krampe, Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB), Bonn, Germany |
| 15:00 | Break |
| 15:30 | The German Water Operators – Education and Skills Competition/IFAT Dr. Andreas Lenz, GWP Working Group and Bavarian Administrative School, Munich, Germany |
| 15:50 | Water Training around the world Ruediger Heidebrecht, Head of Department Training and international Cooperation, DWA, Hennef, Germany |
| 16:10 | WEFTEC/USA - 25 years of Operator Challenges Steve Harrison, WEF-Coordinator Ops Challenge, Alexandria, USA (tbc) |
| 16:30 | Global Water Operators Partnership Faraj El-Awar, UNW-DPC & GWOPA/UN-Habitat, Nairobi, Kenya |
| 16:50 | BMBF Research project TransRisk – New Technology needs new training content Prof. Dr. Manuela Niethammer, Ulrike Krauße Technical University Dresden |
| 17:15 | Discussion (30 Minutes): Water Treatment Technology – a development and future orientated WorldSkills competition discipline? What can we do to promote and accelerate the qualification of our hidden champions? |
