31.3.2023.

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11th Sava River Basin Youth Parliament - Webinar on NBS

A Webinar on Nature Based Solutions was held on 30 of March 2023. The main purpose was to help the students at secondary schools and young people between the 19 and 25 years to increase their knowledge on NBS and to help them to submit their proposal to the competition for selection of schools to participate at the 11th Sava Youth Parliament. The competition was announced on March 17, 2023 at the website of the Sava Commission. The webinar, which was organized in cooperation between the Sava commission, Global Water Partnership, University of Belgrade and University of Ljubljana, gathered more than 50 participants from Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia.
The agenda covered the overview of NBSs and the presentations on wastewater treatment wetlands, on NBS as a way to healthy city and on large-scale NBS for flood risk reduction. The participants were also informed on online support tool (gwotoolbox.org) which allows stakeholders to learn, explore and connect with water management experts.

How can you join to gwotoolbox.org?
  • Step 1: Register to GWP IWRM action hub à https://iwrmactionhub.org/user/register
  • Step 2: Go to Connect à Communities and become member of the Community on NBS in water management
  • Step 3: Welcome! Explore the Community on NBS; you will find discussion on the webinar in the »Discussion« tab.

All the presentations are available here, while the audio recording is available here.