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IAHR Webinar
Capacity of the Youth and International Organisations Towards Partnership, Cooperation and Environmental Protection to Accelerate SDGs

Monday 5 June 2023, World Environment Day | 4:30-6:00 pm CEST

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Introduction

The IAHR’s Working Group on Sustainable Development Goals (as a partner for the UN-Water task force) is relevant to many other SDGs, besides SDG6. While extreme natural events such as droughts and floods ignore political boundaries, an accelerated international collaboration is required to effectively manage the water resources. It can then be used as a leading vehicle contributing to peace building and cooperation, highlighting the capacity of the world’s organisations to come together in partnerships and cooperation to accelerate progress. Planning and participation in activities are included, which will foster discussions and collaborations with the local scientists and research groups.

Objectives

• Raise awareness about the importance of partnership and cooperation between youth and international organisations for achieving the SDGs. 

• Share successful partnerships and initiatives between youth and international organisations in environmental protection and SDG acceleration. 

• Discuss effective collaboration strategies for achieving SDGs and environmental protection. 

• Identify challenges and brainstorm solutions for effective partnership and cooperation. 

• Facilitate networking opportunities among like-minded individuals and organisations committed to working towards SDG acceleration and environmental protection. 

Topics covered

The webinar intends to create a space for sharing the new insights and experiences to reflect on: 

• What does acceleration mean? 

• How can international organisations effectively engage and support youth-led initiatives to accelerate progress towards the SDGs? 

Event format

Virtual panel discussion, followed by a Q&A session.

Target audience

Young professionals, students, researchers, academics, industry practitioners

Programme 

Panelists:

• Hasmik Barseghyan. UN 2023 Water Conference Delegate and President of the European Youth Parliament for Water (EYPW).

• Carolina Tornesi MacKinnon. President of the World Youth Parliament for Water.

• Elise Zerrath. Associate Environmental Affairs Officer, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE). 

• Sarah Breslin. Associate Expert at the UN-Water Technical Advisory Unit, based in New York.

• Mahmoud Radwan. PhD candidate at Ecole Polytechnique of Paris, water resources and development expert, currently a Project Officer at UNESCO headquarters in Paris

IAHR members who facilitate the involvement in the webinar's content and delivery:

• Hadis Mohajerani. IAHR Working Group on SDGs, PhD candidate in hydrology, department for physical geography, Trier University, Germany

• Elpida Kolokytha. Chair of IAHR Working Group on SDGs. 

• Amparo Lopez. IAHR Vice-president, IAHR Working Group on SDGs. 

• Angelos Findikakis. IAHR liasion with UN-Water. 

• Tom Soo. Executive Director of IAHR.

• Francisco Pinto. Coordinator of the IAHR Young Professionals Webinar Series. President of the IAHR Portugal YPN. 
  

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