Meet us on Common Ground: towards Expo 2025 Osaka
Nearly 300 attendees gathered in Rotterdam this week for the “Meet us on Common Ground” kick-off event to celebrate the Netherlands’ participation at Expo 2025 Osaka.
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'Wavemakers United is a global impact community with a passion for water innovation'
Water challenges affect us all: our safety, our health, and our future. The solution: new talent with innovative ideas and out-of-the-box perspectives to strengthen all organizations involved.
Wavemakers United is a community of students, young professionals, and athletes with a passion for water. As a youth organization we focus on local challenges while having a global reach. Our aim is to contribute to the UN SDGs and involve as many youngsters as possible.
OUR IMPACT
Wavemakers United inspires youth to take action on water. We do this in three ways:
- By raising awareness through education and sports. Our goal is to give 1 million youngsters a year a guest lecture on water
- By promoting global collaboration through our capacity-building program
- And by supporting new student-initiated innovations
The Succes of the Gamechanger Challenge
The UN2023 Gamechanger challenge was a great success, during which 200 universities around the world joined. Over a thousand students from 62 different nationalities worked on innovative ideas, offered guest lectures to their local community, and contributed to solving the global water challenges.
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OUR WORK IN ACTION
By 2027 we will reach 1.000.000 children per year across the whole world with our Wavemaker Lessons. We accelerate this by organizing the Gamechanger Challenge: to expand the community and bring in new innovative ideas from students and young professionals. Our unique factor is a global network with local ambassadors and high-profile athletes who educate children with the most fun and engaging lessons through our interactive water experiments.
Our education program inspires the next generation, our global capacity-building program activates changemakers on a local level, and our Gamechanger Challenge kickstarts breakthrough innovations from the most talented students.
These drops of knowledge will create a wave of impact and that is how Wavemakers United helps to solve global water challenges.
RECENT HIGHLIGHTS:
Meet us on Common Ground: towards Expo 2025 Osaka
Nearly 300 attendees gathered in Rotterdam this week for the “Meet us on Common Ground” kick-off event to celebrate the Netherlands’ participation at Expo 2025 Osaka.
Paris: (Re)Connecting River and City Conference
On March 10 – 11th, our founder, Tilly Stroo, and Elizabeth Hameeteman visited Paris for the (Re)Connecting River and City conference. We are happy to witness and participate in the follow up of the Future is Now event!
First Lego League Finals
On March 8, 400 kids from across the country, split into 42 teams, came together for the grand finale of the First Lego League in the Netherlands. It was a day full of smiles and positive energy!
Back to Paris for follow up ‘Future is Now’ event!
1 week until the IEA Paris Water and Heritage Symposium. The 3-day conference will be held from March 10-12, focused on the theme “(Re)Connecting River and City,” with the primary objective of accelerating innovation and enhancing citizen participation in urban water use and bathing water quality.
AMBASSADORS OF WAVEMAKERS UNITED
AMBASSADORS OF INNOVATION
Founder of Xatoms
Founder of Algaenius
AMBASSADOR OF SPORT & EDUCATION
Ambassador of Education
Ambassador of Sport
OFFICIAL SUPPORTERS
Former Special Envoy for International Water Affairs
Climate Envoy Kingdom of The Netherlands
Permanent Representative to the UN Food and Agriculture organisations in Rome
Olympic silver medalist sailing
Water Envoy for Kingdom of the Netherlands
Ambassadors
Henk Ovink - Former Special Envoy for International Water Affairs
“Wavemakers United has grown into a global movement of young water professionals, connecting sports and health with water and sustainability. Together they provoke the past and the present with a better future, in partnership and with concrete and inspirational action! Join me and the Wavemakers towards next years UN 2023 Water Conference and commit to act on water!”
Events
Wavemakers United attends both local and global events to showcase the positive energy of our community. Check out below at which events we will inspire you next!
Partners
