Partners

As a result of climate change, a growing human population and industry, securing clean water is becoming more difficult. Wastewater treatment plants, households, industry and agriculture are sources of pollution in watercourses with transboundary impacts.
The increasing complexity of water treatment brings with it major demands for training and education of new professionals capable of meeting the new challenges. The complexity of water issues requires interdisciplinary cooperation in education and transdisciplinary links between theory and professional practice. Linking professional and academic education at an early stage promotes future interdisciplinary cooperation.
With limited public financial resources, costly water protection measures are very difficult to communicate, not only to the general public. It is therefore important, in the context of education and professional practice, to make the general public aware of water management issues and possible measures to improve water quality.
Water pollution is a transboundary problem, so to maximise water protection it is necessary to achieve comparable levels of education and practice in both countries. Not only the current European legislation, but especially the persistent poor water quality, requires interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary cooperation to train the skilled personnel necessary to meet the generational challenge of water protection.