WWW-YES presentation
World Wide Workshop for Young Environmental Scientists (WWW-YES)PresentationGrowing population worldwide, economic development and increasing degradation of freshwater resources make the actual management of urban waters unsustainable for the world of tomorrow. Competition between water users, inadequate technologies or inappropriate managerial approaches makes better and adequate capacity building necessary. Furthermore, due to academic financial restrictions, PhD students are often limited in their ability to present and discuss their ongoing research projects at an international level and suffer from poor experience in using English as the common language for all international science exchange.The LEESU research group and the H2o Association organise in the framework of the "University for water and sustainable development" of the Val-de-Marne County (South-East of Paris) an annual doctoral workshop dedicated to young environmental scientists, the World Wide Workshop for Young Environmental Scientists (WWW-YES). Since the creation of the workshop in 2002, the thematic outline is "Urban waters, resource or risk", emphasizing the necessity of the integration of human activity in the natural environment to enable sustainable development of urban space. The workshop is multidisciplinary joining natural (urban hydrology, chemistry, ecology, health sciences...) and social sciences (architecture, management, decision making...), to improve trans-disciplinary discussions and social commitment of the scientific research in the field of integrated water management. This workshop is characterized by a non formal work environment stimulating scientific creativity, exchange and discussion between participants, which number is limited to 25. For each participant, both papers and oral presentations especially focus on:
Indeed this workshop is not mostly dedicated to present original results (the purpose of all conventional scientific conferences), but to present, discuss and justify methodologies selected by each PhD student. Furthermore, taking into account the large field of "urban water", papers and presentations are well illustrated for being well understood. Finally, taking into account the large participation of students issued from developing countries, each paper and oral presentation should also include some discussion of the benefits and limitations of such methodologies within developing countries, where most up-to-date technology is often not available. The five days of the workshop are dedicated :
In conclusion the capacity building objectives of the WWW-YES workshop are focussed on 8 major tasks of an environmental scientist who wishes to reach an international expertise level:
Since its start in 2002, 179 students, issued from 46 countries spread over all continents, have participated to its 10 editions: a table of these participants is available either in alphabetical order or by edition group on the Web site of this workshop. Furthermore, it has been suggested to all participants of previous WWW-YES editions, to build a free profile on Linked In and to join the ’Urban water’ group of former WWW-YES participants, requesting such registration to Daniel Thevenot moderator of this group. Through this professionnal network, discussions, common news, announcements or positions request/available may be shared by all group members. Available proceedings on HAL Open Source site
OrganisationLEESU Laboratoire Eau, Environnement et Systèmes Urbains / Water, Environment and Urban systems centre of research shared by the École des Ponts ParisTech (ENPC), Université Paris-Est Créteil (UPEC), Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée (UPEMLV) and AgroParisTech. It is classified as UMR MA 102 by the French Ministry of High Education and Research.
Local organisation: Daniel Thévenot, Martin Seidl and Association H2o Paris. Inquiries on this workshop: www-yes(AT)leesu.enpc.fr Scientific committee
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