Monthly Archives: May 2017

Nexus Conference Dresden – UNU-Flores – Where people meet

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Dresden, May 18th 2017

The Nexus Conference 2017 (Water, Energy and Agriculture) attracted over 400 professionals to Dresden. I was there with an DWA booth and attended the conference. Beside that DWA and United Nations University UNU-Flores signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to work closer together in the years to come.

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During one evening these seven people from 6 Nations (USA, Tunesia, Bukina Faso, Iran, Jordan, Germany) spend a very nice evening together.  We went through Dresden and I explained  a bit the history of Dresden and Germany. We expored that all the nations are interconnected e.g. by religion, trade or projects. This years we celebrate 500 years of Martin Luther – the priest who became the first protestant.

Collaboration and international work is one part of my job.
It is not only a job – it is joy and I appreciate this work very much.

Rüdiger Heidebrecht

3. UNIVERSITY CHALLENGE CHINA

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Shanghai, May 6th 2017, IE expo 2017

The serie of University Challenges continued in May in Shanghai during the trade show IE expo. 10 Teams from 5 Universities participated during this 3rd event. We extended the tasks and beside the IWRM job they had to do another task.

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The students had to go to the 28 German companies who were at the German Pavillion and they had to gether information from the companies. After 5 hours the winning team was found.
The winning team came this time from the Tongji University.
With the sponsoring and support from the Wilo Foundation the three students will come to the IFAT Muenich 2018.

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See more about the winner.

See more about the University Challenge.

Rüdiger Heidebrecht
28.5.2017