Training Activity

Date: 30 April -6 May 2018

Venue: Bilateral (Iran & Germany)

Co-organizers: RCUWM-Tehran, German Water Partnership

Participating Countries / Organizations: NWWEC and PWWEC

Number of Participants: 18

Number of Female Participants: –

Objectives/Outcomes:

• Site visits and knowledge sharing

Date: 14-15 December 2016

Venue: Qazvin, Iran

Co-organizers: RCUWM–Tehran, Iran Hydraulic Association, Qazvin University

Participating Countries/Organizations: Iran

Number of Participants: 60

Number of Female Participants: 23 (39%)

Objectives/Outcomes:

• Providing the latest achievements in the field of hydraulic engineering, meeting the needs of the country’s water industry, paying attention to sustainable development indicators and addressing environmental issues

Date: 04 – 06 December 2016

Venue: Tehran, Iran

Organizer: RCUWM-Tehran

Participating Countries/Organizations: Journalists and Public Relations Experts

Number of Participants: 56

Number of Female Participant: 26 (46%)

Objectives/Outcomes:

• Helping to improve the capacity of the media in water journalism in Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan, and Turkmenistan
• Raising public awareness about climate change in general and water- related issues in
• Acquiring 20 journalist educators the updated skills and techniques to train journalists and media professionals on new media competencies to report on Climate Change and water issues, with a focus on a powerful and instrumental role of the media in raising public awareness and social behavior change as […]
  

Date: 9 May 2016

Venue: Tehran, Iran

Co-organizers: RCUWM-Tehran, Tehran municipality, Iran Water Resources Management Company

Participating Countries/Organizations: Germany, Japan, and South Korea

Participants: 930

Number of Female Participants: 405 (43%)

Objectives/Outcomes:

• The relationship between city, citizens and rivers
• Requirements and measures for urban river restoration and training and flood management
• How to participate stakeholders and residents in river restoration projects
• Presenting new approaches on urban river management and related experiences in Iran, Germany, Japan and South Korea

Date: 23-24 January 2016

Venue: Faculty of Environment, University of Tehran, Iran

Organizer: RCUWM- Tehran

Participating Countries/Organizations: RCUWM- Tehran, TETCO, University of Tehran

Number of Participants: 45

Number of Female Participants: 15 (34%)

Objectives/Outcomes:

• Defining ecological buffer zones in urban areas
• Introducing the role of value engineering and planning ecological buffer zones in urban rivers
• Explaining objectives and necessities of holding the workshop on value engineering
• Presenting ecological buffers and areas in the metropolitan area of Tehran in urban development projects
• Evaluating the riverbed concept and instructions on determination of flood fringe
• Reviewing international experiences on defining ecological buffer zones and related instructions
• Presenting experiences on urban […]
  

Date: 29 November-2 December 2015

Venue: Kyoto, Japan

Co-organizers: The Japan Federation of Engineering Societies, RCUWM–Tehran, Science Council of Japan, UNESCO, WFEO

Participating Countries/Organizations: China, Iran, Japan, Lebanon, South Korea, Taiwan, The Netherlands

Number of Participants: 50

Number of Female Participants: 17 (34%)

Objectives/Outcomes:

• Providing an opportunity to discuss and exchange new information, technology and experiences associated with river technologies among the participants in the WECC 2015.

Date: 16-19 November 2015

Venue: Tehran, Iran

Co-organizers: UNESCO, RCUWM-Tehran, Iranian National Water & Waste & Wastewater Eng. Co. (NWWEC)

Participating Countries/Organizations: Germany, Iran, Japan, USA

Number of Participants: 150

Number of Female Participants: 35 (23%)

Objectives/Outcomes:

• Promoting knowledge and awareness of journalists in the key issues on water and sanitation,
• Recognition of existing capacity, and aligning it with the needs
• Improving the quality and quantity of prepared papers regarding water- related issues
• Strengthening the water news network to raise public awareness through collaborative working between the water sector and media

Date: 18 October 2015

Venue: Tehran, Iran

Co-organizers: IUST, RCUWM-Tehran, TETCO

Participating Countries/Organizations: RCUWM- Tehran, TETCO, Ministry of Energy

Number of Participants: 80

Number of Female Participants: 27 (33%)

Objectives/Outcomes:

• Introducing to objectives and approaches related to Tehran river restoration and training master plan
• Presenting the latest progress of the mentioned master plan in three river restoration studies (Inception study and feasibility study)
• Ensuring rivers and canals in terms of safe passage of flood
• Improving urban ecosystem in ecological buffer area, social and awareness building on environmental issues and creating relationship between city, citizen and river
• Restoring river flow regime qualitative and quantitative-wise and aquifers recharge
• Stimulating […]
  

Date: 1 July 2015

Venue: Tehran, Iran

Co-organizers: RCUWM – Tehran, NWWEC

Participating Countries/Organizations: Australia, Iran

Number of Participants:  35

Number of Female Participants: 7 (20%)

Objectives/Outcomes:

• Discussing new technologiesin the field of vacuum and presure sewage collection networks and to transfer experiences from other parts of the world