cewas
the international centre for water management services
cewas is the Swiss-based international centre of competence in the field of sustainable sanitation and water resource management. It is a unique institution combining advanced education and support to start up a business. It builds up SMEs that can offer technical and managerial expertise in the field of sustainable sanitation and water management to national and international organisation and private clients.
Each year, the cewas Start-Up Centre hosts young students and graduates that have a strong motivation to advance their skills related to sustainable sanitation and water management and to start up their own business. Participants of the Start-Up programme follow 6 modules of advanced education in the cewas Training Centre and get personal coaching from a core group of international high-level experts from research and practice (the cewas Think-Tank), bringing in their experience, expertise and the current state-of-the-art knowledge of the sector.
The cewas Training Centre offers are open not only to cewas Start-Ups but everybody interested in sustainable sanitation and water management: individuals or groups of individuals who want to increase their knowledge in regard to water and sanitation; organisations who want to advance their members’ skills; professionals who want to position themselves strategically in the global water and sanitation sector; etc.
Successful Start-Ups move on to the cewas Business Platform and offer their services in the field of sustainable sanitation and water management on the market. They get home-base support and continuous backstopping form the cewas community and network. Forming a cluster of Start-Ups with complementary specialisations, the office-sharing community from the cewas Business Platform can offer integrated solutions to national and international organisations and private clients.
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Hot Topics
"Involving the private sector to curb water corruption": cewas, together with GIZ and the Water Integrity Network (WIN), organised a side event in order to promote water integrity and curb corruption at the 6th World Water Forum, 16th of March 2012. Read more...
The "Willisauer Bote" published an article about the start of the 2nd Start-Up Programme. It highlights the new possibility of gaining credit points (ECTS) which can be credited for the tertiary education. Download the article here.
The first cewas Forum on Business Development for Sustainable Sanitation and Water Management has been a great success. Download the conference presentations here.
The new cewas agenda for 2012 is out now. Download it here and reserve the dates.
The new cewas flyer is out now. Download it here and share it with your network.
BPD Blog: Why sanitation should be envious of funeral parlours – the challenge of the ‘missing middle’. Read more...
What will the international Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) sector look like in 10 years from now? The IRC International Water and Sanitation Centre has launched a new report scanning the 2020 horizon: An analysis of trends and scenarios in the water, sanitation and hygiene sector.
WSSCC’s new advocacy campaign “GDP for GDP” is focusing on the economic benefits of investing in sanitation.
Find out more on www.wsscc.org.
cewas signs Memorandum of Understanding with ICLEI Africa (Local Governments for Sustainability).
Read the international press release.
Francois Münger, Head of the Water Initiatives Division at the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) talks about cewas in a article on "the potential of clean technologies for the water sector".
Have a look at the article of Elina Hiltunen, a forsight expert on "No business like the water business"
