Inspiring Closing Workshop
This workshop will celebrate and showcase the joint achievements with respect to the key deliverables of the Orange Knowledge Project “Bridging the Water”.
Together with our project partners and a wide range of stakeholders, we will look into lessons learned and good practices, future collaboration and moving on together beyond the project.
Hourly Schedule
Wednesday 6th April 2022
- 9:00 - 9:30
- Walk in
- 09:40 - 09:45
- Bilateral collaboration on water between The Netherlands and South Africa
- Nichi Walker (Deputy Consul General Consulate General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands)
- 09:45 - 09:50
- Opening by South African lead project partner Durban University of Technology (DUT)
- Sheena Kumani (Professor DUT and Project Coordinator OKP project)
- 09:50 - 10:05
- Looking back at 3 years OKP: “Bridging the Water”
- Gabrielle Knufman
- 10:05 - 10:25
- Training of trainers and on the job training: highlights, lessons learned and good practices
- Claudia Peters (Training Manager at World Water Academy and Project Coordinator OKP project)
- 10:25 - 10:45
- Living Labs
- Mariska Heijs (Senior lecturer Water at Hogeschool Rotterdam and work package leader of the OKP Living Labs) Kevin Winter (Professor at UCT and Coordinator of living labs) Emilie Buist (Project Manager Water Innovations at TU Delft and Coordinator of Living Labs)
- 10:45 - 11:00
- Highlights of research done in the living labs
- South African and Dutch students
- 11:00 - 11:10
- Coffee Break
- 11:10 - 11:45
- Future Opportunities after “Bridging the Water”
- William Moraka (Manager at SALGA and work package leader of the dissemination) Uchechi Obinna (Researcher at CEW and work package leader of the Institutionalization)
- 11:45 - 12:00
- Conclusion and Q&A
- Gabrielle Knufman
- 12:00 - 12:30
- Lunch
- 12:30 - 16:00
- Field Visit to the Franschhoek Waterhub
- Kevin Winter
- 16:00 -
- Networking and drinks